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Does the government's continuing watch on media infringe on freedom of expression?
After the week-long state of national emergency (which included the raid in The Daily Tribune office), Malacañang through the Department of Justice revealed that surveillance will continue on seven unnamed media personalities.
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AKBAYAN WOMAN SOLON ARRESTED (AP)
Party-list Rep. Risa Hontiveros Baraquel of Akbayan is arrested by police during a protest march of hundreds of women activists marking International Women’s Day. Police made the arrest on the ground that the marchers had no permit to rally.
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Arrest of retired General Garcia’s wife, 3 children ordered by Sandigan in plunder case
The Sandiganbayan Second Division yesterday ordered the arrest of the immediate family of retired Maj. Gen. Carlos F. Garcia based on a P303-million plunder case the Office of the Ombudsman filed against them in April, 2005.
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Hundreds of women activists and protesters yesterday marked International Women’s Day by marching on the street to express their outrage over what they called as President Arroyo’s "betrayal of women’s interests and the people’s civil and political rights."
Two women leaders, Akbayan Party-list Rep. Risa Hontiveros Baraquel and Joshua Mata of the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL), were arrested by Quezon City policemen during a violent dispersal of the demonstrators at the Mabuhay Rotunda.
The arrests were protested by lawmakers, among them House...
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Alindogan appointed new DBP Chairman
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has appointed former Monetary Board member Antonino L. Alindogan, Jr. as the new chairman of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP).
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Roach dismisses Barrera offer to fight Pacquiao
TOP TRAINER Freddie Roach yesterday said Marco Antonio Barrera is just green with envy with the recent success of Manny Pacquiao that he now expressed his readiness to face the Filipino icon once again.
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BEAUTY QUEENS.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo congratulates the Binibining Pilipinas winners — Bb. Pilipinas International Denille Lou Valmore, Bb. Pilipinas World Anna Maris Igpit, and Bb. Pilipinas Universe Lia Andrea Ramos – who, with former Bb. Pilipinas World Carlene Aguilar, visited her in Malacañang in celebration of International Women’s Day.
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Eastern Visayas and Mindanao will experiencecloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and isolated thunderstorms becoming widespread rains over Mindanao which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. The rest of Visayas will have mostly cloudy skies with rainshowers and isolated thunderstorms, while Luzon will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers.
Moderate to occasionally strong winds blowing from the southeast and east will prevail over eastern Visayas and eastern and southern Mindanao and its coastal waters will be moderate to occasionally rough.
Manila Bay will be slight to moderate.
Temperature range –
22.5°C – 32.2°C
Tides —
High: 4:01 p.m., 0.94 m.
Low: 2:58 a.m., -0.16 m.
Sunrise — 6:09 a.m.
Sunset — 6:05 p.m.
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