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Presidential bets kick off campaigns with gimmicks

Colorful publicity stunts marked the opening salvo of presidential aspirants on Tuesday, the start of the official campaign period for candidates seeking national posts. Eddie Villanueva unfurled the largest Philippine flag, Noynoy and Jamby heard Masses, the camp of Erap distributed aprons while the Gordon-Fernando tandem had Optimus Prime in the sortie.

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Battle for the ballots: Party-lists play name game

What’s in a name? If it means winning a seat in the House of Representatives, it seems party-list groups will go to ridiculous lengths - think A BLESSED or A TAMBAY - just to get listed first on the alphabetical ballot. After all, almost half of the groups that won in the polls from 1998 to 2007 had names that started with the letter A. More
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Kapuso star Richard Gutierrez and editors of the Philippine Entertainment Portal (PEP) website reached an amicable settlement on Tuesday, regarding the libel suit filed by the actor over an article that appeared in the PEP website on March 29, 2009.
All it takes is a battery of smart-ass lawyers, access to dormant records, and a photographic memory to create trouble for government pension funds, Dean de la Paz writes in his latest blog entry.
A Filipino woman reported missing in the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated Haiti last January 12 was confirmed dead after her body was found over the weekend.
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