MANILA — Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today decried anew the worsening government and military attacks against the progressive party-lists and demanded the immediate release of Anakpawis Eastern Visayas coordinator Vincent Borja. He also denounced moves of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ 801st Infantry Brigade to file charges against Bayan Muna lawmaker Teddy Casino.
MANILA — Team Unity senatorial candidates are eyeing an overhaul of the labor code to keep it in tune with fast-paced technological developments that are reshaping the labor sector.
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.
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.
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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