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Philippines: Solon decries arbitrary removal of 1.13 voters’ names from official Comelec list

News Release Thursday, April 12, 2007

Solon decries arbitrary removal of 1.13 voters’ names from official Comelec list; demands Comelec explain the methods it used to verify the names

Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said that the Commission on Elections should not have removed more than one million supposedly unqualified voters from the official voters list for the May polls.

The Comelec has removed some 1.13 million names from the from the list including the so-called “flying voters” and double registrants. According to reports, the National Capital Region (NCR) posted the highest number of deleted unqualified voters with 73,430 while in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) some 6,059 were removed from the list.

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Philippines: Voters’ distrust for GMA, her officials should be transformed into vigilance during May polls

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News Release Thursday, April 12, 2007

Voters’ distrust for GMA, her officials should be transformed into vigilance during May polls to safeguard votes, election returns from fraud

Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said that Pulse Asia’s recent survey results revealing the public’s low level of trust for key officials and supporters of the Arroyo administration were not surprising. President Arroyo and former President Fidel Ramos have public distrust ratings of 41 and 43 percent, respectively. Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr and Comelec chairman Benjamin Abalos also have low trust ratings.

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Philippines: San Miguel Corp. Sustains Growth Momentum in 2006

San Miguel Corporation (SMC) reported another strong performance in 2006 amid slower growth in incomes. Consolidated net sales revenue reached P250 billion, which was 10% higher than 2005.

Dampened consumer demand continued up to the fourth quarter of 2006, partly due to the strong typhoons that hit the Philippines. Despite weaker consumer spending, there was however marked improvement in food group sales and significant volume recovery in the liquor business.

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Philippines: RSF Condemns Jailing of Davao Broadcaster

Reporters Without Borders / Reporters sans fronti?res
Press Release / Communiqu?
11.04.07

RADIO JOURNALIST GETS FOUR AND A HALF YEARS IN PRISON FOR DEFAMING LEGISLATOR

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the four-and-a-half-year prison sentence which dxMF Radyo Bombo presenter Alex

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