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Residents from Davao’s 3rd District Felt Insulted by Council Bets


Neophyte Jeppie. BayanMuna partylist member Jeppie Ramada (third from left) looks ill at ease during a campaign sortie this week. Ramada is running for councilor in the third district under the umbrella of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and his daughter Sara who are running unopposed as mayor and vice mayor for the upcoming polls in May. Duterte had earlier endorsed partylist groups BayanMuna, Gabriela and Anakpawis, saying these groups have consistently fought for the people’s interest.(davaotoday.com photo by Germelina Lacorte)

DAVAO CITY — Some 600 residents of Davao City?s third district who gathered for the Green Vote 2007 Candidates Forum in Calinan Thursday afternoon felt insulted when the candidates who attended the event left them for another sortie barely halfway through the activity.

Barangay Tawan-Tawan Kagawad Danny Gumapac was emotional when he aired his dismay over the turn of events and said that the candidates? attitude reflected how they would treat people should they be put into office.

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Philippines’s Arroyo Tells Asia Forum: Help Lift Up the Poor

BOAO, China (Via PLDT) — While expressing her bullishness in Asia?s future, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo challenged movers and shakers of the region Saturday “to use every tool available to lift up the poor,” in order to achieve equitable, sustainable growth.

In her keynote speech at the opening plenary session of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) at the main hall of the International Convention Center here, the President called on Asian countries to learn from other nations and create their own sustained path to development.

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In Mindanao, Cesar Montano Bares Countryside Development Agenda

Butuan City?In his sortie last night in Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Lakas-CMD senatorial candidate, internationally acclaimed actor, director and movie producer Cesar Montano bared his agenda for the development of the rural areas. In an extemporaneous speech that moved the crowd in Butuan, Cesar Montano said that his platform to develop the country-side is simple but effective. It is summed up by his name?C.E.S.A.R. This stands for Cooperative, Entrepreneurship, Support Services, Rural Productivity, and Rural Infrastructure. ?Contrary to my critics claim that I have no agenda,? Montano said, ?my name represents my agenda for country-side development. Pngalan ko and paninindigan ko (my name is my commitment).?
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Selda Lauds UNHRC for Urging Philippines to Pay Rights Victims

MANILA — The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at para sa Amnestiya or SELDA, an organization of Human Rights Violations Victims during Martial Law lauds the United Nations Human Rights Committee in its April 3 statement calling on the Philippine government to pay compensation to the 9,539 victims of martial law.

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