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MANILA — To sustain economic growth and help the government solve the global-wide menace of poverty, senatorial candidates of Team Unity will push in the next Congress an array of programs designed to create more jobs throughout the country.
New York ?Jose Miguel Arroyo, husband of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, has withdrawn 46 criminal libel suits he had filed against 11 journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomed today?s news but said the suits should never have been brought.
The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) was not the least surprised that the phone of former president Corazon Aquino was bugged.
?We are not surprised. Killings, abductions, surveillance; these are clear signs that we are now living in a police state. All our movements are being watched by a paranoid and unstable government. Just imagine how things will be when the anti-terror law is implemented in July,? said Bayan secretary general Renato M. Reyes, Jr.
Reporters Without Borders today welcomed the news that Mike Arroyo, the husband of President Gloria Arroyo, has decided to drop all law suits against the country’s journalists and publishers.
The worldwide press freedom organisation hailed the exemplary campaign waged by Philippines’ journalist organisations and called for press offences to be decriminalised.
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DAVAO CITY ?Driven by it’s commitment to support peace and development
efforts in Mindanao, the Canadian government, through the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA), has recently provided an additional
P40 million to the Mindanao Trust Fund (MTF), further boosting the
implementation of community-driven development for the conflict-affected and
vulnerable areas.
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