Politics

Karapatans antics

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Mar 15, 2008

Camp Panacan, Davao City. Instead of helping the civilians affected by the conflict between the military and the NPA, Karapatan…

Tagum mayor resents high-level corruption while his city makes do with measly budget

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Mar 08, 2008

Tagum City Mayor Rey Uy said that he was upset about the high-level corruption in government as shown in the ZTE-NBN broadband scandal while officials in his city are trying hard to make do with a measly 430-million budget. He expressed frustration that Malacanang could easily get loans when local government units are not allowed to have deficit spending and all loans had to pass through the city council for approval.

Previous brushes with US troops make young Moros wary of Balikatan

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Mar 03, 2008

Activists speak out against the Balikatan in Cagayan de Oro City.

Related story: Fears raised against Balikatan

A day before the joint U.S.-Philippine Balikatan military exercises, young Moro protesters led a barricade in barangay Sarimanok in Marawi City, which ended up with protesters hurling stones at a passing convoy of vehicles loaded with U.S. soldiers. Not contented, the protesters chased the fleeing Hi-Ace and Toyota vans and hit the car windows with stones. Aida Ibrahim, chair of the Moro youth organization Liga ng Kabataang Moro (LKM) in Marawi said the Moro youth will do everything they can to drive the U.S. troops away.