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The anti-Charter change (Chacha) and anti-Arroyo forces had barely a week to mount the muscle-flexing protest action yesterday in Ayala Avenue, Makati City and in… 06/26/2009
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Philippines
Con-Ass and the people’s wrath
Revolution
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Most Filipinos think that, as the expression from US political lore goes, Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is so unpopular she couldn’t win an election as… 06/26/2009
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Pressure Mounts in Cha-Cha Battle
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By BENJIE OLIVEROS MANILA — When the Supreme Court junked the petition filed by Oliver Lozano for being premature, it refused to fall into the… 06/26/2009
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A Peasant Leader’s Murder Shatters the ‘Peace’ in Dumaguete
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Fermin Lorico was a peasant organizer and a mass leader. He had been a marked man. On Wednesday, minutes after attending the anti-charter change rally… 06/26/2009
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Falling remittances foretell gloomier consumption, growth
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Remittance from overseas Filipinos continued to slow in with year-on-year growth of just 2.2% in April which is down from 3.1% in March and 4.9%… 06/26/2009
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Philippines already in recession – IBON
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The Philippines has started to enter into what is effectively a recession since last year, according to research group IBON Foundation. This is considering not… 06/26/2009
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Journalist Julius Fortuna dies of heart attack
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MANILA–Journalist Julius Forlales Fortuna died of massive heart attack at 9 a.m. Tuesday (June 23). He was 61 years old. He left behind wife Sabina… 06/26/2009
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Arroyo’s Cha-cha Gambit
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Analysts say the Arroyo regime is exploiting a disorganized political opposition and an apathetic (or deceived, if not coerced) public to ram through charter change… 06/26/2009
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10 Years of The VFA
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By Roland Simbulan Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CENPEG) MANILA — The presence of heavily armed U.S. soldiers even in the remote areas of… 06/26/2009
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‘Tyranny of Numbers’
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Constituent Assembly for Cha-Cha OK’d in Congress Opposition congressmen tried to block the approval of House Resolution 1109 that would create a Constituent Assembly, with… 06/12/2009
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