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Why I will vote for Noynoy - Winnie Monsod
Villar still refuses to attend the Senate to face questions, and it only reminds me of how GMA used the privilege of her office to avoid questioning. What will happen if Villar wins and more corruption scandals surface?

Party-list representatives: Mikey, Reyes
By Rainier Allan Ronda (The Philippine Star) Updated February 25, 2010 12:00 AM

MANILA, Philippines - They may not be candidates in the May 10 elections, but presidential son Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo and Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes may end up in the House of Representatives anyway.

The two are reportedly the nominees of two party-list groups running in the upcoming polls.

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Today we say, “Enough.”

Nov 27, 2009

The massacre of 57 people in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao goes beyond a rido or clan war. The sheer scope of barbarity, the brazenness of the murders betrays the perpetrators’ belief in being beyond the reach of the law.

Women, lawyers and journalists – no one escaped the butchers’ wrath. Fifty-seven people killed in broad daylight. The murderers had planned the deed, down to the mass burial of victims. That is the mark of the untouchable.

Worst loss of life in one day "in the history of journalism"
Reporters Without Borders
11/24/2009 | 07:56 AM

| | More Share Published on 23 November 2009 on the Reporters Without Borders web site

At least 12 journalists were killed today in Maguindanao province (on the southern island of Mindanao) by armed men, including two policemen, linked to the province’s governor, a supporter of President Gloria Arroyo. More than 30 other people were murdered. Some of the victims were beheaded.

Remittances provide 70% chance to get out of poverty

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By Karen Flores, abs-cbnNEWS.com | 10/26/2009 2:29 AM

MANILA - Amid economic crises and natural disasters, the Philippines is looking at positive growth this year as more overseas Filipino workers (OFW) send money to their families back home. This may prompt one to ask: what makes remittances so resilient, and how can we make the most out of such inflows?

DepEd Order 90 to ensure students will become idiots

Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:39:00 10/23/2009

Filed Under: Education

Recently, Education Secretary Jesli Lapus issued Department of Education Order No. 90, series of 2009, directing elementary schools to reduce teaching and learning time. Lapus explained that the order was issued in response to the increasing number of students and to the public clamor for lesser learning loads, as well as for the safety of young pupils.

Storm-hit Pinoys lured into non-existent jobs abroad
JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE, GMANews.TV
10/21/2009 | 05:04 PM

| | More Tropical cyclones ‘Ondoy’ and ‘Pepeng’ might have broken the spirit of some Filipinos but it also proved to be a marketing strategy for illegal recruiters who lure unwitting, yet desperate, calamity victims into non-existent jobs overseas.

Thus warned the Blas F. Ople foundation, a migrants’ advocacy group, on Wednesday after receiving reports that unscrupulous recruiters have targeted typhoon-hit victims in Luzon.

The recent events in our country call for measure that will help both the government and people. The destruction brought by typhoon Ondoy and Pepeng caused immense dislocation and displacement to the population that normalcy is hard to realize. Many lives, homes and livelihoods were lost. The return to school were both hard for government and people as schools were destroyed and people are still traumatized.

Thursday, October 01, 2009
Special Immigration Measures for Typhoon Victims in the Philippines

Aside from the up to $5 million humanitarian assistance pledged for the victims of typhoon Ondoy, the Government of Canada announced special immigration measures for typhoon victims in the Philippines.

Government of Canada announces special immigration measures for typhoon victims in the Philippines

Philippine mudslides, floods kill estimated 100

CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer Teresa Cerojano, Associated Press Writer – 6 mins ago
MANILA, Philippines – Dozens of landslides in the rain-soaked mountains of the northern Philippines killed an estimated 100 people, as a lingering storm and excess water from dams turned a portion of one province into "one big river," officials said Friday.

The latest calamity brought the death toll to more than 400 from the Philippines' worst flooding in 40 years after back-to-back storms started pounding the country's north Sept. 26.

No debate: Deluge due to climate change

Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:05:00 09/30/2009

Filed Under: Ondoy, Flood, Disasters & Accidents, Government, Weather, Climate Change

MANILA, Philippines—The massive floods that inundated Metro Manila were a chilling reminder of the need to seriously address climate change, experts said, warning that the lives of millions were at stake.

More rain fell on Manila and surrounding regions in nine hours on Saturday than the amount Hurricane “Katrina” dumped on New Orleans in 2005.

PRESS RELEASE
Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines
Teodoro-Puno: Twin fascists, twin puppets
September 17, 2009

"Twin fascists. Twin puppets." This was how the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) described the tandem of Defense Secretary Gilbert Teoodoro and Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno, who yesterday were selected by the ruling Lakas-Kampi-CMD coalition party as its presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2010 elections.

NDF scoffs at Palparan's bid to investigate media killings
Rubi Del Mundo
Spokesperson
National Democratic Front-Southern Mindanao
September 14, 2009

Retired army general and now walking butcher in the halls of GRP Congress Jovito Palparan lacks the moral ascendancy to urge the police on probing the media killings in Southern Mindanao. The National Democratic Front of the Philippines finds it absurd for Palparan to initiate such an investigation as proposed during his visit in Davao City last month.

NPA ordered to wage all-out war vs US forces in Mindanao GMANews.TV - Sunday, September 13Send IM Story Print
The National Democratic Front in Mindanao on Saturday vowed to wage an all-out struggle against US forces there, following the visit to the US of Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr.

NDF spokesman Jorge “Ka Oris" Madlos issued the call after US Defense Secretary Robert Gates that the US will continue to involve itself in the “counter-insurgency" war.