US involvement in Weena blast probe slammed
Davao City ? Bayan Muna slammed here today the meddling of US military in the investigation of the serial bombings in Bansalan, Davao del Sur and Cotabato City last Friday.
Philippines Protestants to Arroyo: What’s so special about child rapist?
?What a harlot she has become!
She once was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her?
but now murderers!
Your silver has become dross, your wine is mixed with water.
Your rulers are tyrants, partners of thieves.
All are greedy for profit and chase after bribes.
They show no justice to the orphan,
the cause of the widow is never heard.?
– Isaiah 1:21-23
Women and children in Philippine society have become the least of the least?no one to give them justice and no one to hear their cause. They might as well be orphans and widows!
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NPA, army claim to have killed more in clash
The war between the Philippine military and the communist New People's Army in Southern Mindanao has spilled over from the battlefield to the media, with both sides claiming that, in an encounter last June 7 in Compostela Valley province, each killed more than what the other was willing to admit in public.
Philippines president: ?We are not relaxing on fiscal reforms?
MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo wants to assure investors, creditors, and credit watchers that the Philippines is not going to backslide in its bid to shore up finances, saying the government can balance the budget and fund an ambitious infrastructure program even without new taxes.
The Chief Executive issued the statement as international ratings agencies and multilateral institutions recently warned the government against being complacent with respect to fiscal reforms.
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From Throughout Asia: Honing Expertise in the Political Economy of Policy Reform
By V. Bruce J. Tolentino
The Asia Foundation
Economic policy reform is inherently political. Economic policies are codified into public laws, regulations, ordinances and other legal instruments that establish the ?rules of the game? and allocate access and assets among various members of the body politic. Changes in economic policy affect the status or welfare of communities in varying ways, often evoking resistance from those whose welfare or status may be diminished by the reforms.
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