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Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesAlthough the opportunity to cheat in an automated election is very slim, a desperate and determined candidate can still cheat his way to office, said an executive of a recruitment company hired by a Commission on Elections contractor to hire information technology people for the national and local elections in May. “With the automated election the chance to cheat is very slim, but for a cunning, desperate and sly politician, there are so many ways,” Johnny Revilla, project manager of Placewell Manpower Inc.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesSmartmatic TIM Corp. said the technicians it hired to help election officers in the May 10 polls will not influence voters as they will only enter a precinct if a voting machine needs to be fixed or replaced.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
03/13/2010 The National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) has withdrawn its application for accreditation from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to be its citizens arm in the forthcoming national polls. Namfrel Chairman Jose Cuisia Jr.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
03/13/2010 One of the highlights of The Daily Tribunes anniversary offering is the yearly spoof pages, dubbed in later years as The Yearly Tribute. Within its pages, the hardworking staff of the…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BY IRMA ISIP The Philippines’ over importation of chicken has resulted in excess supply of the commodity but retail prices remain high, an industry source said. This developed as the country faces 10,000 metric tons of shortfalls in pork until the second quarter
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BY REGINA BENGCO PRESIDENT Arroyo yesterday declared a state of calamity in Mindanao due to a drought-induced power crisis. The declaration frees the calamity funds of local government units, equivalent to 5 percent of their budgets, which presidential deputy spokesman Gary Olivar said may be used to buy generating…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines At least four sections of Edsa will be closed to traffic Friday night for the weekly concrete re-blocking operation of the Department of Public Works and Highways, the Metro Manila…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines More poll machines have passed laboratory tests and are ready for use in the upcoming elections in May, the automation partner of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Thursday. Smartmatic-Total Information Management (TIM) president for Asia-Pacific Cesar Flores told INQUIRER.net that 18,000 more precinct count optical scan (PCOS)…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Department of Health is ‘working on’ another round of drug price cuts before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s term ends next June, according to DoH Secretary Esperanza Cabral. However, Cabral said, they were ‘not making any promises.’ The first two rounds of voluntary price reductions by some 20 local pharmaceutical companies covered over 200 types of drugs and health care…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
HE SAYS 03/10/2010 New Musical Express magazine described it as a lusty bellowing of a statement of facts about New York, the city that has become the subject of many songs, which after Sinatras New York, New York, has again hogged the limelight courtesy of Alicia Keys, whose soulful chorus in the two different versions of the Empire State of Mind one with rapper Jay-Z and another of her own would become my LSS, or the last song syndrome to replace Manny Villars political jingle. Ms. Keys, who was born and grew up in Harlem, described her place as such a melting pot, on the corner selling rock, preachers pray to God.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NO HOLDS BARRED 03/09/2010 And of course I mean Hollywood, in the good old US of A, and if youre wondering where Im coming from, well, the 82nd Academy Awards is going on as I write. Its such a welcome respite from the Manny Villar ads airing in all media, so please, can we talk about this muna
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
03/07/2010 ABS-CBNs 55th anniversary advocacy program Bayanijuan bagged an Award of Merit at the 45th Anvil Awards organized by the Public Relations Society of the Philippines (RPSP). Bayanijuan is a campaign that aims to give back to communities…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
CITY OF MALOLOS, PhilippinesIf unseated Bulacan Gov. Joselito Mendoza fails to get a temporary restraining order by Monday, he would have to step down and yield his post to Roberto Pagdanganan, the provincial election supervisor said Saturday. Sabino Mejarito, Bulacan election supervisor, said he will implement on Monday the writ of execution on the Commission on Elections’ March 4…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe peso inched up further in Friday’s trade, as favorable investor sentiment boosted appetite for currencies of emerging Asian economies. The local currency ended the week at 46.05 against the US dollar, stronger than its Thursday’s finish of 46.09.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo can act on the power supply problem in Mindanao using her special powers without the need to convene Congress, Speaker Prospero Nograles said Friday. ‘She has emergency powers to declare and she did that in Maguindanao massacre,’ Nograles said in a text message when asked if there was need for Congress’…
