BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, BRUNEI DARUSSALAM? Streamlining of rules in customs,
immigration, quarantine and security (CIQS) for faster and freer
port-to-port movement of trade and services across borders of Brunei
Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-the Philippines-East ASEAN Growth Area
(BIMP-EAGA) will soon take off in eight priority pilot ports identified by
the EAGA CIQS Task Force.
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MANILA — Supporting efforts to have an honest and peaceful election, leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) has teamed up with top broadcast firm GMA New Media, Inc. to provide text services that will equip subscribers with news, tips and reminders for the May 14 polls.
MANILA — The Supreme Court has ordered the vice-mayor of Mabalacat, Pampanga to head its local government until June 30, 2007 after it unseated Mabalacat Mayor Marino ?Boking? Morales whom it found ineligible to have run in the 2004 elections. The decision is immediately executory.
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10 May 2007
Source: Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)
Two journalists from the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap) were banned from entering the Philippine Marines headquarters in Taguig City on 9 May 2007 for an arranged interview with jailed opposition senatorial candidate and former Navy officer Antonio Trillanes IV.
Focap is the organization of foreign correspondents based in the Philippines.
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MANILA — The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan slammed the Armed Forces of the Philippines for spinning ?blatant lies about the disappearances of Jonas Burgos despite circumstantial evidence pointing the Army?s involvement.?
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