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Saturday, January 12, 2008

 

DOJ cracks down on media

Threat of charges extends to journalists, media execs

JUSTICE Secretary Raul Gonzalez threatened media owners and press organizations with criminal charges if they allow their reporters, photographers and cameramen to obstruct “authorized police or military operations.”

The warning was stated in a department advisory dated January 11 and addressed to “chief executive officers of media networks, media companies and press groups and entities.” Copies of the advisory were distributed to reporters covering the Justice beat, particularly the Justice Reporters’ Organization (Juror) and Justice and Court Reporters Association (Jucra).

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O T H E R   R E P O R T S

 

There is no concrete proposal from the Cabinet to impose an additional tax on text messaging and the issue has not even been discussed in Malacañang, Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said.

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THE military maintains that Dulmatin, Southeast Asia’s most wanted terror suspect holding out in Mindanao, can’t cross over to his homeland, Malaysia.

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BOGOTA, Colombia: Former Colombian hostage Clara Rojas said she had needed a cesarean section to give birth to her son while in captivity and that rebels took him away from her when he was just eight months old.

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Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Reynaldo Berroya has ordered the centralization of registration of imported brand-new and used motor vehicles in a bid to erase suspicion that smugglers are conniving with some regional directors of the agency.

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Electricity cost in Luzon is expected to drop in the next few months with the recent cut in the generation charge of the National Power Corp. (Napocor).

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FEATURE

No talking during class, no running in hallways, no cheating in exams—these are some of typical school rules, which now include no lip-synching of the Philippine national anthem.

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NSO survey

Filipino households spent more than what they earned in 2006 as their spending habits changed over the years, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO).

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SPECIAL REPORT: DEPED NOT READY FOR CYBERED

Last of three parts

Planning for the China Education and Research Network (CERNET) project started in 1993. It is the first nationwide education and research computer network in China.

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Recommendations made by workshop groups at the Roundtable on the Department of Education’s Cyber­Ed Project organized by The Manila Times College with the UP National Institute for Mathematics and Science Education Development.

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