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Re-electionist Sen. Loren Legarda yesterday
urged Filipinos to "carbon fast" this Lenten Season, saying that
practicing low-carbon lifestyle is needed to save the ailing ecosystem.
Legarda, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, is running under the
Team PNoy.
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Following a rigorous campaign beset by power
outages in Southern Mindanao, United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) senatorial
candidates urged the Aquino administration to come up with long-term
solutions to address the worsening power crisis besetting Mindanao.
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The camp of former President and now Pampanga
Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has decided to remain in the background as an
ecstatic Aquino administration celebrated the country’s Fitch Ratings
upgrading its credit rating to investment grade for the first time in the
nation’s history.
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The principal author of a bill providing
positive and non-violent discipline of children yesterday appealed to
senatorial candidates to include the measure in their respective legislative
platforms.
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A progressive labor group yesterday challenged the
Commission on Elections (Comelec) to implement fairly the poll body’s rules
by filing charges against candidates and party-lists supported by the
administration, alleging that they committed election violations.
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Posters of Local
candidates are already up in the areas of Cabuyao and Sta. Rosa, Laguna, a
day before the official start of the campaign period for local officials.
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Senatorial bets Baldomero
Falcone, Richard Gordon and re-electionist Antonio Trillanes IV faced off on
ANC’s “Harapan 2013.” The candidates addressed issues such as the Senate
budget and pre-election surveys.
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Senatorial candidates
Teddy Casiño, Ramon 'Jun' Magsaysay and Ernesto Maceda faced tough questions
on the first episode of ANC’s “Harapan 2013.”
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Almost all the senatorial hopefuls for the 2013
polls are in favor of passing a Freedom of Information (FOI) law in the
country, interviews conducted by GMA News Online revealed.
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The Church, the Academe, and the Media received
higher trust ratings by 1,575 respondents and 600 informed public in 1,200
rural and urban areas nationwide who were polled for the 2nd Philippine Trust
Index (PTI) in November-December, 2012, by the Ateneo Graduate School of
Business and EON firm.
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