MANILA — The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released the Special 301 Report, placing the Philippines and 29 other trading partners on the ?lower level watch list?. After staying on the priority watch list of the report for five successive years since 2001, the Philippines was relegated to the ordinary watch list in 2006.
Zamboanga City–Expressing his gratitude to Overseas
Filipino Workers (OFWs) who gave the Philippines $10
billion worth of remittances in 2005, Team Unity
Senatorial Candidate Cesar Montano said that he will
help ease the lives of OFWs and their families if he
gets elected in the Senate. ?The OFWs are the
lifeline of the country. It is just right that we
give them the better treatment that they deserve?, he
said.
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In this second installment in Davao Today’s Q&A series on the 2007 elections, newspaper columnist and political analyst Luis V. Teodoro argues that the May 14 elections will be a “turning point in whether the march to authoritarianism will continue or if the political crisis that began in 2004 — the crisis of legitimacy of the Arroyo regime — can begin to be resolved.”
Political violence has descended upon the island province of Camiguin in Northern Mindanao.
An election lawyer of Liberal Party (LP) gubernatorial candidate Antonio Gallardo sustained physical injuries after he was assaulted and mauled last Friday, April 27, by political rivals led by incumbent Caminguin Rep. Jurdin Jesus Romualdo and his father, former Camiguin Gov. Perdo Romualdo, both members of the administration Lakas- CMD party.
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Troop deployment will aggravate, not curb, poll violence Kabataan Party-list, the only youth party-list participating in the May polls, today stressed that more army checkpoints and troop deployments will not…