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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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ARREST QUESTIONED (AFP)
Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros Baraquel (left) is joined by Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. (center) and Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) President Joel Cadiz at a press conference in which they questioned the legality of her arrest while she was leading a women’s march in Quezon City on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
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Palace defends media policy against sedition
Malacañang yesterday defended its call on print and broadcast media entities not to allow the use of their facilities as propaganda tools by some quarters to advance their own political agenda, notably to grab power from the government.
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Ship in Cebu when fire hits top deck
A special Board of Marine Inquiry (BMI) yesterday started its investigation on the fire that hit Superferry 12 of WG & A Shipping Corp. the other day where a total of 664 passengers — including 638 adults, 23 children, and three infants — and 138 officers and crew were rescued off Bantayan...
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Oil companies cut LPG prices further by P0.50/kg
The country’s oil companies have further cut down by P0.50 per kilogram the price of their liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) starting 12:01 am of Saturday.
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Basketball charter up in the air as FIBA deadline nears
FOUR DAYS before the deadline set by the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC), the country’s basketball stakeholders have yet to reach an agreement that would pave the way for the creation of a cage super body.
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NEW CEBU PACIFIC PLANE
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo pours champagne over a brand-new Airbus Industries A-39 for which Cebu Pacific held blessing and inauguration rites yesterday during the company’s 10th anniversary celebration. With the President are Cebu Pacific President Lance Gokongwei (left) and JG Summit Holdings Chairman John Gokongwei. (Anjo Perez)
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Eastern and southern Luzon and the Visayas will experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and isolated thunderstorms becoming widespread rains over Palawan which may trigger flashfloods and landslides.
The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers.
Manila Bay will be slight to moderate.
Temperature range – 22.8°C – 31.1°C
Tides — High: 6:36 p.m., 0.93 m.
Low: 4:08 a.m., -0.18 m.
Sunrise — 6:07 a.m.
Sunset — 6:06 p.m.
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