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Alarmed over news reports from Bukidnon of a perceived lead by ?Hello, Garci? star, former Comelec Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano over 1st District Liberal Party candidate Malou Acosta, opposition stalwart Susan Roces has produced a video endorsing Acosta as the candidate to send to Congress.
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MANILA — Team Unity candidates are committed to help build specialty hospitals in the regions, stuff them with modern medical equipment and continue honing the skills of their staff, with the ultimate goal of luring into the country the elderly and the infirm in search of the cure for their illnesses in countries other than their own.
MANILA — Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo today denounced the Armed
Forces of the Philippines over an assault at Bro. Eddie Villanueva’s
residential compound in Bocaue, Bulacan by soldiers in civilian
clothes.
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MANILA — The anti-fraud watchdog group Kontra Daya today called on the Commission on Elections to investigate elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines involved in a shoot out with policemen in Bocaue, Bulacan. The shoot out was believed to be the result of an attack on mayoralty candidate Jon-Jon Villanueva Jr.
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MANILA — Ambassador Alistair MacDonald, Head of Delegation of the European Commission to the Philippines, and Commission on Human Rights Chair Purificacion Quisumbing signed a memorandum of agreement on 4 May 2007 to launch a new EC-funded human rights project. The project, which will be implemented by the Philippine Commission on Human Rights together with its sister institutions in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand is intended to help pave the way for the development of an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism.
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