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Philippines: EAGA transport cluster to reopen Gensan-Bitung sea link

GENERAL SANTOS CITY- Seeing the need for further expanding trading ties
within BIMP-EAGA, the sub-region’s working group on sea linkages agreed
recently to revitalize the sea link connecting the tuna-belt region of
Southern Mindanao and North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Comelec list of nominees show Malaca?ang?s ?grand scheme? to undermine Philippines’s party list system

MANILA — The Bayan Muna party list today said that the COMELEC list of party list nominees confirms the Arroyo administration?s ?grand scheme to pack Congress with its own party list lackeys in order to thwart another impeachment complaint.?
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Where Is Jonas Burgos?


Where is Jonas Burgos? Family, friends, and human-rights advocates march last week to denounce the abduction of Jonas Burgos (right picture in banner), the son of press freedom icon Joe Burgos (left picture in banner). The young Burgos was an activist working with peasants in Bulacan. Military agents are suspected to be behind his kidnapping. (Photo courtesy of arkibongbayan.org)

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NPA to Probe Captured Army Soldier for ‘War Crimes,’ Rights Abuses

The New People’s Army’s Conrado Heredia Command in Southern Mindanao announced over the weekend that it has in its custody an Army sergeant whom it called a “prisoner of war.” It said it is going to investigate the soldier for possible “war crimes” and human-rights violations.

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