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Do you believe now is the right time to effect changes in the Constitution?
After its failed bids to change the Constitution -- first, thru a People's Initiative and second, thru Constituent-Assembly, the House majority refuses to give up by pressing the Senate to immediately pass a concurrent measure that should pave the way for the third option to amend the Charter: Constitutional Convention -- a political exercise some sectors claim should not be held under the present atmosphere of "partisan strife."
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BOXING BRINGS 3RD GOLD MEDAL.
Joan Tipon (left) moves in on South Korea’s Han Soon-Chul during their bantamweight gold medal bout last night in the Doha Asian Games. Tipon outclassed Han, 21-10, to give the Philippines its third gold medal of the Games. (AFP)
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Poll automation in 12 pilot areas
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday identified 12 pilot areas in the country where poll automation will BE implemented for the 2007 national elections.
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Boxer Tipon beats Korean for RP's third gold medal
DOHA, Qatar — The Philippines won its third gold medal Wednesday when bantamweight Joan Tipon hammered Korean Han Soon Chul in the boxing finals of the 15th Asian Games.
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MANILA (AP) -- President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, faced with a public uproar and the prospect of massive street protests, on Thursday scrapped plans for a constitutional change that would have abolished the opposition-led Senate.
Arroyo, who has campaigned for overhauling the legislature to ease political instability, changed course after the influential Roman Catholic Church and opposition groups assailed moves by majority administration lawmakers for them to start drafting a new charter.
The bishops, opposition...
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CBCP appeals: Keep Con-con free of PI, Con-ass influence
Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) President Angel Lagdameo yesterday appealed to the country’s lawmakers to keep the Constitutional Convention (Con- con), if it should be called, free from the negative impact of the People’s Initiative and Constituent Assembly (Con-ass).
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De Venecia ends Con-ass bid
Speaker Jose de Venecia last night declared the final death blow for Resolution 197 which calls for the convening of a constituent assembly has been dealt the controversial proposal.
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US Fed’s rate freeze gives BSP more monetary leeway
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. said yesterday the decision of the US Federal Reserve’s to maintain current rates will reduce pressure off the peso and narrowing of the interest rates differential.
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Northern and eastern Luzon will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms.
Manila Bay will be slight to moderate.
Temperature range – 23.7 ºC – 31.7ºC
Tides — High: 5:07 p.m., 0.56 m.
Low: 11:31 a.m., 0.13 m.
Sunrise — 6:12 a.m. Sunset — 5:28 p.m.
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