MANILA — With the new pro-poor laws signed by President Arroyo, Team Unity candidates have vowed to push more legislative measures in the next Congress that would further help the less privileged and marginalized sectors of society.
Killing followed harassment of Suara Bangsamoro’s volunteers in Davao del Sur.
DAVAO CITY — The husband of a leader of the Moro partylist group, Suara Bangsamoro, was shot dead this morning by three unidentified men in Pikit town, North Cotabato, the Philippines.
Usman Ali, 40, was shot in the back of his head while at a public market in Pikit, said Suara partylist nominee Amira Lidasan .
On International Press Freedom Day, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel awarded the ?grand prix? of the 2006 Natali Prize competition to the Hong Kong based journalist Leu Siew Ying, for her report ?From Village Protest to National Flashpoint?. The award-winning article tells the story of villagers in Guangzhou/Southern China who try to recall their elected headman for suspected corruption. Fourteen other journalists also received Natali Prizes for their commitment to Human Rights and Democracy.
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MANILA —At least seven major infrastructure projects totaling 18-billion
pesos under President Arroyo’s Mindanao super region strategy are now ready
for taking, according to Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza.
At the 2nd Government Infrastructure Forum held last week at Edsa Shang-rila
Hotel, Dureza presented projects that include roads, bridges, irrigation
with power generation, and a food complex as having greater economic
viability and with high impact on peace.
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MANILA -- The Black and White Movement denounces in the strongest possible terms the fascist methods of the Arroyo regime in harassing outspoken critics of the administration. Faced with the…