MANILA — The Human Development International Vanguard Corps for Peace and Development a volunteer organization ( www.humandevintl.com ) that is spearheading the Call to Save the Mountains of the World Initiative expresses sympathy to the family of Julia Campbell and the Peace Corps Volunteers for her untimely death.
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MANILA — Lakas-CMD and Team Unity Senatorial candidate Cesar Montano urged the graduating class of Lyceum of the Philippines to use their talents and educational know-how to uplift the conditions of the majority of the people. Speaking yesterday at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) for the 57th commencement exercises of his alma mater where he studied civil engineering, Montano used his own life history as an example to encourage the graduates to ?aim high.? He said that one lesson that he learned from his lawyer-father is ?to be able to get the eagle, aim for the sky.?
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MANILA — Sec. Raul Gonzalez made another insensitive remark by stating that Julia Campbell was to blame for her own death because she ?carelessly? went hiking alone in the Banaue Rice Terraces.
MANILA — The killings of activists and journalists have become so untenable that it would be enough to destroy the credibility of the upcoming May 2007 elections.
This was the warning aired by the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) as cases of killings and attempted murders of activists and journalists escalated over the past two weeks.
MANILA — As a result of its continued privatization of vital utilities and the deregulation of the oil industry, the prices of power, water. and oil have increased most rapidly during the last six years of the Arroyo administration, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.