Philippines: TU bats for bigger CHR budget
MANILA — Team Unity believes the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) can function more effectively under an atmosphere of an improved economy?and a bigger budget.
Foreign Observers Are in for a Shock During Philippines Visit: Beltran
MANILA — Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said that the 219 foreign observers from 12 countries set to arrive in the country to monitor the mid-term elections on may 14, Monday will without doubt be appalled by the violence of the supposedly democratic process as practiced in the Philippines.
Philippines will attain 100% electrification by 2008, says government
MANILA — With the country?s expanded rural electrification program reaching the 95.26 percent level as of the first quarter of this year, the Arroyo administration is confident that its target of energizing all of the 41,945 barangays nationwide will be attained by 2008.
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Bayan Muna hits army for illegal arrest of activist
ORMOC CITY, Philippines ? Bayan Muna Rep. Teodoro Casi?o continues to accompany a regional leader of the Anakpawis party-list group illegally arrested by the military in Ormoc City, Leyte Monday night.
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Asia: ADB Wraps Up 40th Annual Meeting in Kyoto
KYOTO, JAPAN – The ADB 40th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors wrapped up today with ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda hailing the event as providing valuable insights into how ADB can evolve with a changing Asia.
?This has been a memorable and successful meeting,? Mr. Kuroda told Governors at the close of the last business session.
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