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		<title>P-Noy’s motives of discussing Corona impeachment to US senators questioned</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, Jan. 19, 2012—Fisherfolks’ group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) questioned the motives of President Benigno C. Aquino III of discussing the impeachment case of Chief Justice Renato C. Corona to United States (US) senators visiting the Philippines. “Why discuss the ongoing impeachment of Corona to US senators? What is the purpose <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8517490&amp;post=911&amp;subd=pilipinasreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SPECIAL REPORT: Groups ask govt.:  “Where’s justice for Ampatuan massacre?”</title>
		<link>http://pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/special-report-groups-ask-govt-wheres-justice-for-ampatuan-massacre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Barcelona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, November 23, 2011—Two years, ago 58 people, 32 of which are journalists, were massacred and buried in a shallow grave in Sharif Aguak, also known as the Ampatuan town in Maguindanao, a province in the Southern Philippines. While one of the primary suspects, former Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. is now in jail, together with <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8517490&amp;post=908&amp;subd=pilipinasreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CPP Southern Mindanao Regional Party Committee</title>
		<link>http://pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/cpp-southern-mindanao-regional-party-committee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today ordered the release from custody of Mayor Henry Dano of Lingig, Surigao del Sur, saying it has made “a political decision to suspend the judicial proceedings against the municipal mayor as an affirmative response to his issuance of an apology.” It also said that the release is <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8517490&amp;post=899&amp;subd=pilipinasreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: What’s withLagunaLake?</title>
		<link>http://pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/opinion-what%e2%80%99s-withlagunalake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Barcelona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The largest freshwater lake in the Philippinesis on the spotlight as the Baggerwerken Decloedt en Zoon (BDC), a Belgian firm offering maintenance dredging, port construction and development, and land reclamation had filed a case against the Philippine Government before the Washington, D.C.-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. What’s the reason? President Benigno C. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8517490&amp;post=900&amp;subd=pilipinasreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t pay Belgian dredging firm, P-Noy told</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, Sept. 27, 2011—Militant fisherfolk group, Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya), urged the Benigno C. Aquino III government not to pay the Belgian firm hired to do the dredging of the 90,000-hectare (222,394.843 acres) Laguna Lake in Luzon. In a statement, Fernando Hicap, national chairperson of Pamalakaya and Pedro Gonzalez, spokesperson of <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8517490&amp;post=897&amp;subd=pilipinasreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Groups appeal for help for ‘Pedring’ survivors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Barcelona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, September 27, 2011—The Resist Apeco! Defend Aurora Movement appealed for help for the fisherfolks and farmers affected by the typhoon Pedring (International Code: Nestat).Auroraprovince is one of the provinces which were lashed by typhoon Pedring. In a Facebook message, Resist Apeco! DefendAuroraconveners said that individuals and groups can help by sending canned goods, rice, <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8517490&amp;post=895&amp;subd=pilipinasreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suspension of Juvenile Justice Law, immature—group</title>
		<link>http://pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/suspension-of-juvenile-justice-law-immature%e2%80%94group/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Barcelona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, September 14, 2011—Akap-Bata Partylist assails the proposed suspension of the implementation of the Juvenile Justice Law (Republic Act 9344) as the Philippine Legislature has to decide whether to lower the age of criminal liability from 15 years old to nine and had said that it will just aggravate the bourgeoning problem of child abuse. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8517490&amp;post=893&amp;subd=pilipinasreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Campus journalists cried foul over campus freedom violations, urges the government to act over reports of repression</title>
		<link>http://pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/campus-journalists-cried-foul-over-campus-freedom-violations-urges-the-government-to-act-over-reports-of-repression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Barcelona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, September 13, 2011—Campus journalists cried foul after the Adamson University allegedly barred the members of the Editorial Board of the Adamson Chronicle from enrolling for the first semester of the current school year, withholding the news organ’s funds, and preventing its circulation officer to distribute the printed materials. Former Trinity Observer editor-in-chief Romina Astudillo <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8517490&amp;post=889&amp;subd=pilipinasreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Special Report:  New Zealanders urge P-Noy to end disappearances, other atrocities in PH</title>
		<link>http://pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/special-report-new-zealanders-urge-p-noy-to-end-disappearances-other-atrocities-in-ph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Barcelona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, August 30, 2011&#8211;In the commemoration of the International Day of the Disappeared today, people in New Zealand who are in solidarity with the people of the Philippines, urge President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III to help ease the pain and agony of the families and friends of the disappeared by surfacing them; or if <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8517490&amp;post=886&amp;subd=pilipinasreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Filipino mariners: sailing on turbulent seas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Barcelona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(A special report on Seafarers&#8217; Week)  With the world economic crisis still there, the 24/7 piracy attacks in key waterways in the world, and the continued human rights violations on-board, the Filipino mariners and seafarers had no other hope but to stand, struggle and fight for their rights as human beings and as workers. By: <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pilipinasreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8517490&amp;post=879&amp;subd=pilipinasreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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