Manila–Since contractualization has become a trend in
Filipino employment, Senatorial Candidate Cesar
Montano said that he would regulate such a trend if
given the chance to serve in the halls of the Senate
so that he can make situations more favorable to
laborers.
Bangkok, 1 May 2007??The message is clear: we must choose clean and safe
energy solutions–anything else is a betrayal to the earth?s future
generations.? Greenpeace and SolarGeneration youth issued this challenge
to world governments this week as they presented renewable energy and
energy efficiency solutions at the opening of the UN?s Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III meeting held in Bangkok.
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MANILA –Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) will launch a book on how the Senate
crafted the Human Security Act of 2007, the country?s
version of the anti-terrorism legislation which was
approved after more than six years of deliberations.
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MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr.
(PDP-Laban) scored top officials of the state-owned
National Power Corporation (Napocor) for their failure
to stock up enough coal to meet higher fuel demand
power generation during the summer months when its
hydroelectric plants are shut down due to low water
levels in dams, lakes and rivers.
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manila — Bayan Muna Rep. Satur C. Ocampo today expressed grave concern that a
son of press freedom icon Joe Burgos has become the latest casualty of
military-instigated abductions of social activists.
Ocampo urged the military abductors to surface Jonas Joseph Burgos who
has been missing since Saturday April 28.
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