Brownouts getting longer on the eve of the elections

By GERMELINA LACORTE Power outages in Davao City has lengthened to two and a half to three hours a day on the eve of the May 10 elections owing to the reduction of power supplied by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines to DLPC which distributes power in the city, Ross Luga, DLPC corporate communications officer, said.

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Former NUJP chair: Hunt for information in the Philippines, a deadly game

By GERMELINA LACORTE Twenty-three years after the ratification of the Philippine Constitution that ensured the public’s right to know, the hunt for information in the country remains a deadly game, the former chair of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines said.

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Q & A: Why Satur Ocampo runs for the Senate

By GRACE S. UDDIN At a time when some politicians want to tamper with the Constitution to stay in power and allow the entry of foreign investments, Satur Ocampo who is running for Senate, talks about the need to continue the nationalist tradition started by Claro M. Recto, Lorenzo Tañada and Jose Diokno as the only hope for the country to develop.

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