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• Multi-sectoral covenant forged for clean elections

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  BY SAMMY MARTIN ReporterA multi-sectoral covenant for honest orderly and peaceful elections in May was forged over the weekend among police, military, clergy and youth. ...

• Int’l financial agency eyes RP office to monitor funds

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), which provides loans to the Philippines of up to $50 million, will be opening its own office in Manila soon to effectively monitor its fund disbursements as well as implementation of its projects...

• MILF refuses to discuss draft deals face-to-face

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  Separatist group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has denied the Philippine Government (GRP) a chance to present the latter’s draft agreement, Government Peace Panel Chair Rafael Seguis said Saturday. ...

• Rotary Club’s fun bike ride donates books, bikes for public school in Cavite

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  More than 70 bikers from Rotary Club of Parañaque South (RCPS) and All Weather, All Terrain (AWAT) cycling club joined a fundraising bike ride on Saturday to raise funds for a dilapidated school in Silang, Cavite. ...

• Laws governing co-ownership

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  BY PERSIDA ACOSTADear PAO,This is a follow-up query regarding the letter I earlier sent you concerning the house and lot transferred by our mother to me and my three siblings. My twin-sister and I want to sell the property in order to avoid further disagr...

• Ngo, Laguna partner for development

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  San Pedro, Laguna: The Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA), a public governance reform institute in Asia, formally invited the Municipality of San Pedro, Laguna to be among their local government partners in governance. ...

• Ceza to turn freeport into int’l shipyard

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan: The Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA) is set to transform its free port in Santa Ana town as a word-class builder of international quality standard vessels. ...

• Comelec mulls contingencies for May automated election

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  Nation2BY FRANK LLOYD TIONGSON REPORTERThe Commission on Elections (Comelec) assured stakeholders on Friday that various contingency measures have been put in place to address concerns about possible technical glitches that may take place during the count...

• Worldinbrief

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  TOKYO: Toyota’s president has apologized for the recall of millions of cars around the world due to faulty accelerator pedals, in a setback that has tarnished the Japanese giant’s reputation for quality. “We’re extremely sorry to have made custome...

• Edu in the Senate

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  The Filipino vice president should also serve as Senate president, “just like in America,” said Edu Manzano, Lakas-Kampi candidate for numero dos. ...

• Seed upon the wind

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  BY MARLEN V. RONQUILLOToday, on the 76th birthday of Rep. Ka Nellie Chavez, Butil Party’s lead representative in Congress, were we supposed to improve on our platform, segueing the need to modernize farming technologies for better yield with the need to...

• A look at the candidates

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  BY ELMER A. ORDOÑEZThe Senate wrangling early this week over the ethics case against a presidential candidate shows how rough and tumble the coming election campaign is shaping up. Unparliamentary language, charges of cowardice and bribery, insulting rem...

• Cainta Municipal Health Officer, 3 other doctors ebut Times story

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  We, Dr. Olga Alegre Abellanosa, Dr. Yolanda Orlina, Dr. Gliceria Ramirez and Dr. Dennis Jose Torres, write to you for and in behalf of ourselves with regard to certain matters that require your utmost attention and consideration. ...

• What Muslim women want In

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  BY AMINA RASULDavao City, 150 Muslim women from the religious sector and from civil society gathered from January 24 to 26 at the Waterfront Hotel in a forum organized by the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy and supported by Magbassa Kita Founda...

• A very recent past

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  BY BENJAMIN G. DEFENSORIN my research on the social aspects of the belletristic writings of National Artist F. Sionil Jose, who I still have to engage in close conversation although he is a neighbor, I have been helped by at least five volumes of his essa...

• Visionary Chekhov lives on in modern Russia

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  BY STUART WILLIAMS GENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MOSCOW: Born 150 years ago as the colossus of Tsarist Russia was just entering an age of change, Anton Chekhov would not live to witness the convulsions that would shake Russia in the 20th century. ...

• Serena denies Henin fairytale ending

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  MELBOURNE: Defending champion and top seed Serena Williams powered to her fifth Australian Open title and 12th Grand Slam when she beat a brave Justine Henin 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 on Saturday. ...

• Que clings to lead in TCC Invitational

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  ANGELO Que sustained his impressive run Saturday to lead by six shots on Saturday in The Country Club Invitational despite posting a one-over 71 in the windy Country Club at Santa Rosa, Laguna. ...

• Tropang Texters, Giants shoot for 2-0 advantage

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  DEFENDING champion Talk ‘N Text and Purefoods go for a 2-0 lead when they face separate foes Sunday in the best-of-five quarterfinal round of the 35th Philippine Basketball Association-KFC Philippine Cup at the Araneta Coliseum. ...

• So absorbs first setback, falls to share of fourth

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:00

  Filipino Grandmaster Wesley So lost his eleventh-round game with GM Anish Giri of The Netherlands and dropped to fourth spot in the 72nd Corus chess tournament at the De Moriane Comunity Centre in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands. ...