Marathon hearings set in aerial-spraying ban dispute
DAVAO CITY -- A Davao City court has given a group representing the banana industry four days to justify its petition seeking to stop the implementation of a ban on…
AFP, Palparan are clear and present danger to Lanao polls — Bayan Muna
The Bayan Muna partylist group today denounced the Commission on
Election’s deputization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines,
including Bantay nominee Jovito Palparan and former PNP chief Arturo
Lomibao, in tomorrow’s elections in thirteen towns in Lanao del Sur.
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More ‘proof’ of cheating in Maguindanao bared
The opposition's poll watch said a Board of Election Inspector from Maguindanao, Faizal Kalantungan, signed an affidavit yesterday attesting that 190 election returns and 38 ballot boxes from Pagalungan town were not canvassed. | Related story: 12-0 sweep by TU in Pagalungan ?impossible? -- Suara
Philippines warns against deployment of pregnant OFWs to Jordan
MANILA ? Philippine Ambassador to Jordan Jose P. del Rosario reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that the Embassy has issued an advisory against the deployment of pregnant OFWs to Jordan after the Embassy faced complications in repatriating these women after they give birth because of the strict rules of Jordan ? a conservative Muslim country ? against issuing birth documents if there is no proof of the marital status of the child’s parents.
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Total gun ban in Davao Sur; more troops eyed
?Anyone brandishing a firearm and is not a member of the armed forces or of the police will be arrested," Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who chairs the Regional Peace and Order Council, said today. "And if that someone is a bodyguard of a politician, the politician will be arrested as well,? he said. ?This is how we will do it, we just have to be really firm in applying the law and protecting the people.?
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