In this third installment of Davao Today’s series of Q&As on the 2007 elections, Glenda Gloria, managing editor of Newsbreak magazine and one of the country’s most respected political journalists, explains why electoral reform (or the absence of it) is key in this election and beyond.
MANILA — Team Unity candidates are committed to help build specialty hospitals in the regions, stuff them with modern medical equipment and continue honing the skills of their staff, with the ultimate goal of luring into the country the elderly and the infirm in search of the cure for their illnesses in countries other than their own.
MANILA — Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo today denounced the Armed
Forces of the Philippines over an assault at Bro. Eddie Villanueva’s
residential compound in Bocaue, Bulacan by soldiers in civilian
clothes.
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MANILA — The anti-fraud watchdog group Kontra Daya today called on the Commission on Elections to investigate elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines involved in a shoot out with policemen in Bocaue, Bulacan. The shoot out was believed to be the result of an attack on mayoralty candidate Jon-Jon Villanueva Jr.
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PIMENTEL IDENTIFIES MOST DANGEROUS PROVISIONS OF
ANTI-TERROR LAW
MANILA– Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr.
(PDP-Laban) today described the Human Security Act of
2007 as a dangerous piece of legislation, as he cited
at least five sections of the law which ?may be abused
by the powerful and used as instruments of state
terrorism against the powerless.?
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