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MANILA — Gabriela Women?s Party members today trooped to the Commission on Elections office to give copies of the confidential memo to COMELEC Chairperson Benjamin Abalos while urging the body to conduct a speedy investigation on the alleged hatchet plot using public funds against progressive partylists.
MANILA –Consul Raquel Solano of the Philippine Consulate General in Agana, Guam reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that the Consulate held a luncheon ceremony in honor of Guam-based Filipino World War II veterans at the Coral Room of the Guam Plaza Hotel on 21 April 2007.
MANILA — Internationally coordinated protest actions hits ABN AMRO offices in three countries today as environmental activists pressured the international bank to withdraw its support for a controversial large-scale mining project in Rapu-rapu island.
ABN AMRO, an international bank holding main office in the Netherlands, is one of the high-profile investors behind the Rapu-Rapu mine project along with ANZ of Australia, KFSX of South Korea and Standard Chartered Bank of the United Kingdom.
MANILA — Gabriela Women?s Partylist Representative Liza
Largoza Maza today said that no amount of
hedging can account for the issues surrounding
the palace memo detailing how public funds are to
be used in building up partylist groups that are
pro-administration and at the same time aimed
at dislodging progressive partylist groups from having seats in Congress.
MANILA — ?May Gabriela sa bawat isa sa atin? (?There is a Gabriela in each of us?). So goes television and movie actress Angel Locsin in a television advertisement for Gabriela Women?s Party.
?We are thankful that Gabriela?s fight for women?s rights meets with Angel?s advocacy for women?s empowerment, the reason why Angel is endorsing us,? said Gabriela Representative Liza Maza.