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A watered down Freedom of Information (FOI) bill

A watered down Freedom of Information (FOI) bill

Who needs a law to strangle our necks?

Early this year, Undersecretary Manolo Quezon of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office announced that President Benigno S. Aquino III finally gave marching orders for the passage of a Freedom on Information (FOI) Law. (Read Malacanang's primer on the substitute FOI Bill here.)

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US agenda in Asia and the risks that Aquino is courting (Part 2 of 2)

US agenda in Asia and the risks that Aquino is courting (Part 2 of 2)

Continued from Part 1

US priorities for 21 st century defense

Updating existing military alliances and forging new ones, however, have to be pursued in the midst of the harsh economic realities facing the US. Amid its raging public debt crisis that has been caused in part by costly wars in Iraq and Afghani...

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US agenda in Asia and the risks that Aquino is courting (Part 1 of 2)

US agenda in Asia and the risks that Aquino is courting (Part 1 of 2)

First of two parts

Manila and Washington have both denied that the bilateral strategic dialogue between their senior diplomats and defense officials last week intends to bring back permanent American military bases in the Philippines. The talks, they said, is just meant to explore increased US military ...

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Corona impeachment side event: Controversy over World Bank loan to SC

Corona impeachment side event: Controversy over World Bank loan to SC

As if the lengthy exchange of arguments in the Senate impeachment trial is not enough, another battle stage has been set up to further pin down [[Supreme Court]] (SC) Chief Justice [[Renato Corona]]. The Palace accusation: Corona used judicial reform funds from the World Bank (WB) “as a personal pigg...

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Dim economic growth prospects for 2012 (Part 2 of 2)

Dim economic growth prospects for 2012 (Part 2 of 2)

continue From Part 1 of Dim economic prospects for 2012


 

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