Team Unity supports cheap, high-quality drug imports
MANILA — Team Unity senatorial candidates support the “parallel importation” of low-priced drugs, as a way to expand the poor’s access to cheaper medicine and health care.
Team Unity to push for Mindanao railway project
MANILA — THE ambitious blueprint for the full development of Mindanao is expected to proceed at full throttle with the poll victory of Team Unity in the wake of a TU proposal on the creation of an ultra-modern railway project that will link the multi-ethnic communities in the Philippines’ southern backdoor.
Campus Journalists in Davao call for clean, honest and peaceful elections; endorse youth partylist
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Members of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) in Davao City expressed their concern over the conduct of clean, honest and peaceful elections come May 4, 2007 in a press conference today.
Nepal journalists attacked for critical reporting
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is disturbed by news that attacks on journalists in Nepal continue unabated.
?The nation of Nepal as a whole is working hard to try to ensure basic democratic freedoms and these attacks are slowing that process considerably,? IFJ President Christopher Warren said.
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IFJ hails end to Nepal 1 Television strike as ?win for employees?
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomed news of an agreement between Nepal 1 Television employees and management on May 7, which ended the strike that had been going for…