MANILA, Philippines — Team Unity has welcomed the government’s release of P1 billion funding for both the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) and the National Electrification Administration (NEA) for the repair and rehabilitation of typhoon-damaged irrigation systems and distribution lines, respectively, nationwide.
MANILA, Philippines — Team Unity senatorial candidates are confident the Philippine economy will soar high this year on the heels of a long list of new, huge foreign investments coming into the country, the latest of which is from Texas Instruments Inc., the Dallas-headquartered world’s largest maker of mobile phone chips.
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New York City & Los Angeles?In nationally-coordinated events in California and New York last April 28, 29 and May 4, over 350 Filipino youth gathered to show unwavering support for KABATAAN Partylist, the leading and only partylist representing the youth sector in the upcoming elections in the Philippines. Using rock and acoustic music, hip hop, poetry, and shadow theater, Filipino youth used their creativity to show how their local issues are connected with the issues of youth in the Philippines addressed by the KABATAAN Partylist.
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Hundreds of Filipino-Americans started a massive campaign of sending
cell phone text messages containing the message:
“KUNG MAHAL MO ANG BAYAN
PANDARAYA LABANAN.
POL KILINGS TUTULAN!
SA TRAPO WAG PALOKO
PROGRESIBO IBOTO.
VOTE KABATAAN PARTY!
PLS FWD TO 10 PPL.
FROM TEXT BACK-USA”
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In this fourth installment of Davao Today’s series of Q&As on the 2007 elections, Julkipli Wadi, political science and Islamic studies professor at the University of the Philippines, argues that both the administration and the opposition have offered nothing new to Filipinos in this election.