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Officials involved in electoral scandals will not be participating in the 2010 polls, said Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Jose Melo.

Melo has assured that there will be less room for operators because the elections will be automated. He pointed out that the machines cann...

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Reactions to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo 's 74-minute State of the Nation Address ranged from lukewarm to negative, with most pointing out that the president spent all the time either enumerating her achievements or taking swipes at her critics, without focusing on the prob...

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In President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's ninth State of the Nation Address , she painted a picture of a country that would have been “lying flat on its back” if “we had given in to our critics.”

In her 74-minute speech, punctuated by 126 rounds of applause fr...

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"I have never expressed the desire to extend my term," said President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in her ninth State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the Batasan Complex this afternoon. This statement is the president's re... read more...

Transcript of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's State of the Nation Address delivered on July 27, 2009

Thank you, Speaker Nograles, Senate President Enrile, Senators, Representatives, Vice President de Castro, President Ramos, Chief Justice Puno, Ambassadors, friends: The pas... read more...

In a matter of hours, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's ninth State of the Nation Address has become one of the 10 Trending Topics on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Other topics on the list include 'Harry Potter', 'AT&T' and 'Comic-Con'.

In addition to casual users tweet...

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GABRIELA party-list representative Liza Maza showed up for the opening of  the third regular session of the 14th Congress wearing a gown that is meant to express her opposition against the Arroyo administration's press fo... read more...