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Did our country changed for the better after the so-called EDSA People Power in 1986?
After the celebration of the EDSA People Power anniversary last Sunday, former President Fidel V. Ramos noticed that the yearly celebration no longer draws as many people as before. Bishop Socrates Villegas said the EDSA 1 celebration "no longer stirs" people’s emotions to participate in it. But most ordinary people say that nothing has really changed, 21 years after EDSA People Power.
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EDSA PEOPLE POWER ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and former President Fidel Ramos lead the celebration of the EDSA People Power Revolution at the People Power monument on Epifanio de los Santos Ave., Quezon City Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007. From left: Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo, Ramos, Arroyo, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, and Bro. Rolando Dizon of the EDSA People Power Commission. |
Half-a-million visitors grace Baguio festival
BAGUIO CITY – An estimated half-a-million foreign and local tourists flocked to the country’s summer capital yesterday to witness and experience first hand the 12th edition of the Baguio Flower Festival, more popularly known as "Panagbenga."
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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) directed yesterday its election officers (EOs) in 118 cities and 1,510 municipalities all over the country to gear up starting today for a heavy influx of filers of certificates of candidacy for members of the House of Representatives, governors, mayors and other local posts to be contested in the May 14 elections.
The Comelec ordered the EOs to designate adequate and knowledgeable personnel to attend to the filers who are expected to come in droves as the March 29 deadline for the filing of candidacy for House members and other local posts approaches.
Comelec officials, led by Chairman Benjamin S. Abalos...
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Doha Round of trade talks to open markets for exporters
The Doha Round with its reduction of trade barriers in both developed and developing countries would bring more market opportunities to Philippine exporters and producers.
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Reyes defends RP five lineup
OVERKILL OR not, it doesn’t matter to national coach Chot Reyes.
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Extreme northern Luzon will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms.
Manila Bay will be slight to moderate.
Temperature range – 22.4 ºC – 31.5ºC
Tides — High: 4:48 p.m., 1.00 m.
Low: 2:17 a.m., -0.11 m.
Sunrise — 6:15 a.m. Sunset — 6:03 p.m.
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