By Germelina Lacorte
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY — Wary over the recent raids of the Communist New People’s Army (NPA) in the region, the military is deploying 20,000 troops to augment security forces in Eastern Mindanao.
In Full Swing. The elections in Davao promises more of the same. (davaotoday.com photo by Cheryll D. Fiel)In this special report on the 2007 elections, Davao Today features the problems…
MANILA — Senate minority leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. today revealed that hundreds of ballot boxes containing what he called ?prefabricated election returns? have been intercepted by volunteers of the political opposition in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte.
The election returns in the 380 ballot boxes have already been filled with the names of the Arroyo administration?s candidates for senators in Monday?s elections. Pimentel said they discovered the ballot boxes on May 9, after volunteers from the Genuine Opposition were informed about it by members of the Philippine National Police.
Concerned citizens led by former DOST Undersecretary Josie Lichauco, Bettina Legarda, Marilyn Orosa, national artist Bienvenido Lumbera, Nini Quezon-Avance?a, and lawyer Harry Roque march on Ayala Avenue on Friday to…
A conference of media leaders and journalists? unions meeting in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil today called for an end to kidnappings, targeted killings and other threats to media and announced the launching of a National Safety Strategy for Media in the war-torn country.
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