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MANILA - Two days before the fifth anniversary of the Hacienda Luisita massacre, militant leaders called on presidential aspirants to make a stand on the issue of land reform and the distribution of land to peasants.
Pointing out that most candidates come from land-owning families, Bayan secretary general Renato Reyes Jr said land reform and Hacienda Luisita have become a political and not just an agrarian issue.
MANILA - Besides the need to upgrade its equipment, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration also needs to do something about its aging staff.
Catalino Davis, Pagasa’s administration and engineering chief, told reporters during a media seminar in San Manuel, Pangasinan, that 40 percent of the agency's 900 employees are between the ages of 41 and 50. On the other hand, only 1.4 percent of its employees are between the ages of 21 and 30.
MANILA - The National Capital Region police office on Thursday unveiled a state-of-the-art command center that will monitor major thoroughfares and help in police operations across Metro Manila.
The Regional Tactical Operation and Intelligence Center (RTOIC) is a P60 million sprawling command, control and communications center housing 42, 40-inch large format display (LFD) monitors showing live video feeds from closed circuit television cameras set up across Metro Manila.
MANILA - A group of young Filipino numbers and science whizzes have done the country proud by winning a total of 18 medals in the just-concluded 2009 Indonesia International Math and Science Olympiad (IMSO) for Primary Schools.
Dr. Simon Chua, president of the Mathematics Trainers' Guild of Philippines who headed the Philippine delegation to the annual 10-nation tournament that ended last Friday in Jogjakarta said the one gold, five silver and six 6 bronze medals the Philippine team bagged were good for a respectable fourth place finish in the Math division.
MANILA - Popular television game show host Edu Manzano is joining the 2010 political contest as Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro’s running mate.
Teodoro paraded Manzano, 54, as his vice presidential candidate at a news conference in Makati City Friday, a move seen as a bid to boost the administration party’s struggling campaign.
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