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Pimentel Cites Need to Correct Flaws in Philippines’s Absentee Voting Law

NEWS RELEASE Ref: Mr. Shiegfred Roxas
18 April 2007 Tel. No.: 0922-7288044

PIMENTEL CITES NEED TO CORRECT FLAWS IN ABSENTEE VOTING LAW

Genuine Opposition senatorial candidate Aquilino Pimentel III today cited the need to correct legal flaws in the Overseas Absentee Voting Law that prevent or discourage overseas Filipinos from availing of the right to vote for national government officials of their homeland.

Unless these flaws are rectified, Pimentel said expatriate Filipinos, particularly those who have migrated to the United States, will remain indifferent to the exercise of their voting right.

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Greenpeace activists construct ?coal plant? at ADB Headquarters in Philippines

Manila, 18 April 2007?Greenpeace activists today constructed a
four-meter replica of a (smoke-spewing) coal plant at the main entrance
of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila.

The Bank has been under heavy criticism for its extensive funding of
fossil fuel projects in Asia which have massively contributed to the
region’s greenhouse gas emissions and abetted dangerous climate change.
The protest came two weeks ahead of the Bank’s Annual Governors Meeting
in Kyoto, birthplace of the Kyoto Protocol, the only legally-binging
global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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IP Philippines?s international meet tackled book piracy

IP Philippines? int?l meet tackled book piracy; Growth in book industry despite piracy concerns

In the recently concluded two-day conference on copyright, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines) and its partner organizations discussed programs to address book piracy in the country.

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Environmental activists urge candidates: Curb climate change by protecting Philippines forests

KALIKASAN-PNE
KALIKASAN? PEOPLES NETWORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
26 Matulungin St. Central District, Quezon City , Metro Manila, Philippines
Tel./Fax; +63 (2) 924-8756; E-mail: kalikasan.pne@gmail.com

PRESS RELEASE
April 18, 2007

Environmental activists urge leading candidates: Curb climate change by protecting Philippine forests

National and district-level candidates and partylists in the 2007 elections should lay the foundation for managing extreme weather conditions expected to result from climate change by immediately supporting an urgent moratorium on commercial logging operations rampant in the Philippines, Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) said today.

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Securitization Can Help East Asian Development, Says ADB Report

HONG KONG, CHINA – Securitization of assets in emerging East Asian bond markets have gathered pace after the 1997/98 financial crisis and has the potential to be used as a tool to fund the region?s massive infrastructure needs, provide support to microfinance and human resource development, a report issued by ADB says.

Despite its growth, Asia?s use of securitization is far more modest than in Europe and North America. Yet structured finance holds considerable potential for regional development.

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