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Both rich and poor suffered from Ondoy's wrath - Special Reports - GMANews.TV - Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs - Latest Philippine News Shared via AddThis

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Philippines: Largest Muslim rebel group 'on a war footing' Manila, 11 Jan. (AKI) - The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group (photo), has announced it is ready for war, if attacked. The statement, made by Eid Kabalu, MILF military spokesman, is a response to a recent comment by interior and local government secretary Ronaldo Puno threatening to stop talks with the MILF."We are open to all possibilities. We have the right to defend ourselves in our homeland," Kabalu said, quoted by daily The Sun Star’on Friday. However, he asserted that war was the last resort.A day earlier, the MILF official website, Luwaran, cited Puno as saying: "If the MILF doesn't want our agreement, if they do not want to respect our Constitution, then let us stop negotiating and just continue with the war.”The rising tension follows the latest stumbling block that has, at least temporarily, halted peace talks between the two sides. In Decembe...

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ERC Rebukes ILPI’s Premature Rate Increase *Janet S.Braza (KGB/CIA) Kawani ng Ginisang Batchoy/ Credible Ironic Advocate When the price in oil (and fare) and rice increases, people rally against it. Now, when the price in electric bills soars high, they become hysterical--their bills have surprisingly bloated. Yet, not everybody has the capacity to air their complaint. In Iligan City, its electric investor, the Iligan Light & Power, Incorporated (ILPI) has twice or doubly charged their customers. This happened in May 2009. Fueled by their spirit of advocacy for the electric consumers specifically in the entire city of Iligan and the province of Lanao, the Lanao Power Consumers Federation (LAPOCOF), an independent body, sat down and study all the ERC’s and DOE’s components. On the first week of June 2009, through the regional television network, the LAPOCOF aired the people’s complaints and, on June 16, 2009, they wrote a letter to ERC informing the latter about the people’s ...