Archive for January, 2008
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The Campaign to Save Windows XP
Plugged: I’m a long-time Windows user and I usually upgrade to its newest version. But when Microsoft launched Vista last year, I resisted the urge to change the Windows XP operating that’s running my laptop. Two reasons.
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Two senior members of the United States Senate have vowed to push the early passage of the Filipino Veterans Equity Bill that would increase the benefits of some 18,000 surviving Filipino World War II veterans.
US Senators Daniel Inouye and Theodore Stevens made this known during their courtesy call on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo this afternoon in [...]
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expressed today her deep gratitude to the Filipino-Chinese businessmen for being her partners in building a progressive Philippines through their various socio-economic programs and projects that have benefited a number of people in many parts of the country..
“You have been practicing the virtuous tenets of your ancestral sage Confucius: generosity of soul, [...]
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo designated today Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza as the new head of the Air Transportation Office (ATO) in a concurrent capacity.
Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesperson Ignacio R. Bunye said Mendoza will replace Engr. Daniel Dimagiba who was acting ATO chief.
Bunye told members of the Malacanang Press Corps that the President has [...]
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said today the country has grown ’stronger and more stable” as her administration continues to win the battle against coup plots and political theatrics.
The President made the assertion this afternoon during the 5th Biennial Convention and 10th Anniversary of the Chinese Filipino Business Club, Inc. at the Manila Hotel amid reports of [...]
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expressed anew today her determination to forge a comprehensive peace settlement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), stressing that lasting peace in Mindanao is “one of the essential building blocks this nation can achieve to secure its future.”
The President reaffirmed her commitment to peace in Mindanao during the 5th Biennial Convention [...]
NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES
January 17, 2008
Dear friends and colleagues,
When Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez issued on January 11 his memo, many of us felt disquiet, even alarm. The memo warned media executives that we may be held criminally liable if we fail to obey “lawful orders” by “authorized government officers and personnel” during [...]
Dili/Brussels, 17 January 2008: The government of Timor-Leste and the UN must revitalise efforts to reform the fledging state’s police and army or risk a relapse into violent civil conflict.
Timor-Leste: Security Sector Reform,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the need for fundamental changes in national and international approaches to reform of [...]
Amid the steep prices of oil in the world market and its adverse impact on the people especially the poor, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said today her administration has set its goal of moving the country towards energy independence by embarking on programs geared towards the development of renewable and indigenous sources of energy.
In her message [...]
President Gloria Macapagal”Arroyo declared today that the economic growth the country is now experiencing will be sustained under her watch.
In her message during the 5th Biennial Convention and 10th Anniversary celebration of the Chinese Filipino Business Club, Inc. (CFBCI) at the Centennial Hall of the Manila Hotel this morning, the President stressed that she is [...]
MANILA — Philippine Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesman Ignacio R. Bunye decried today unfounded surveys purporting to show the decline of democracy in the Philippines, saying Filipinos know best that democracy lives and reigns in the country.
Bunye was reacting to the survey released by New York-based Freedom House which downgraded the Philippines from a free [...]
Plugged: Nokia Philippines warned consumers last week that fake Nokia phones are proliferating in the market. These fake phones — Nokia N81, Nokia 5310, Nokia N95, Nokia N82, Nokia 6120, to name some — are usually sold in sidewalks or stalls, those that sell “GSM” (Galing sa Magnanakaw) phones. Nokia Philippines enumerates ways to tell [...]
(PinoyPress Plugged): Banking has become infinitely easier because of the Internet. Online, we can check our deposit or credit-card balance, transfer funds, pay bills, etc. Online banking has saved countless souls from the headaches of doing over-the-counter transactions, such as the long queues (particularly in Metrobank banks) inside banks.
The problem, of course, is that the [...]
Labor federations and unions under the banner of the KMU are entering 2008 by upping the ante in the continuing campaign for an old, still-unheeded demand – a legislated P125 across-the-board, nationwide wage increase.
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
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Labor federations and unions under the banner of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU or May 1st Movement) are entering [...]
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) revived proposal of the National ID system would only intensify the number of human rights violations in the country.
Despite Supreme Court ruling that the National ID system is unconstitutional that it violates the people’s right to privacy and freedom of movement Arroyo [...]
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