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Workers incredulous?not surprised?over Philippines?s growth claim

DAVAO CITY — Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao Region today slammed Gloria Arroyo?s declaration that her administration?s plans for the economy has succeeded, saying the hard-up Filipino people will be the first ones to negate her preposterous claim.
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Noli wrong: Rising number of OFWs show Philippines’s bankruptcy ? Migrante

MANILA — Contrary to Vice-President Noli de Castro?s assertion that the growing number of Filipinos employed abroad was proof of an economic boom ? an alliance of overseas Filipino groups said the rising number of OFWs underline a worsening Philippine economy.
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Farmers blame DAR exec for failed ‘installation’ in Davao estate

GOV. GENEROSO, Davao Oriental?Seventeen farmers have blamed Undersecretary for Field Operations Narciso Nieto for failure of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) last July 13 to install them in the 29-hectare Arcal Estate in Barangay Magdug here.
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Angging blasts proposal to scrap juvenile-justice law

By ANGELA LIBRADO-TRINIDAD

We have hoodlums in robes, we have cheats at the highest echelons of the government, we have crooks in Congress, landgrabbers and killers well-entrenched in state machineries and business, and the irony is, despite the laws available to victims, to the poorest among us, these criminals appear decent and held with high regard in our society. We see the young shoplifter, the young molester or the young drug pusher and, alas, we are immediately agitated to have them removed from our sight and from the streets!

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