FRIDAY |JANUARY 25, 2008| PHILIPPINES

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PHOTO BY ROLLY SALVADOR

Homes along the creek. A demolition crew from the Metro Manila Development Authority dismantles hundreds of shanties built along the banks of the creek near Quezon avenue, Barangay Tatalon, Quezon City. The residents did not put up any resistance.

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‘Why stop with aides?
Axe all unqualified’
 Gloria OKs dismissal of redundant assistants

BY DENNIS GADIL

SENATE minority leader Aquilino yesterday said President Arroyo cannot be held liable for appointing unqualified people to government posts, but nevertheless advised her to take back her appointments.

"The rule of law should impel GMA to recall or terminate these appointments," Pimentel said.

He said the appointments of government officials occupying career positions should be withdrawn or revoked if they fail to comply with civil service eligibility requirements and there are qualified people who can replace them.

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RP off-target on 3 of 8 Millennium Development Goals

BY ANTHONY IAN CRUZ

GOVERNANCE and accountability remain the major stumbling blocks in the Philippines’ bid to attain the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are development targets that the 189-member United Nations pledged in 2000 to achieve by 2015.

The eight MDGs range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education.

United Nations resident coordinator Nileema Doble yesterday told a media forum the Philippines’ MDG 2007 score card showed it is "off-target" in three MDGs, namely providing universal access to education, reducing maternity mortality, and giving access to reproductive health services.

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SC favors fines over
imprisonment for libel

BY EVANGELINE DE VERA

THE Supreme Court is set to come out before the weekend with an administrative circular wherein a judge in libel cases may rule for payment of a fine instead of imprisonment.

Chief Justice Reynato Puno yesterday said after inducting officers and members of the Financial Executives Institute that the circular will be an "interim measure."

Puno said the circular should not be mistaken for a bill decriminalizing libel which is pending in Congress because the guidelines simply direct judges to prefer the payment of fines instead of imprisonment in case of a conviction.

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