BY LISA ITO BULATLAT ELECTIONS/BREAKING NEWS May 15, 2007 - 5:57 p.m. TONDO, MANILA ? Foreign observers monitoring the poll count in Tondo, one of the most congested cities in the world, have repeatedly been reminded of how poverty influences the attitudes of urban...

BY LISA ITO BULATLAT ELECTION WATCH/ BREAKING NEWS May 15, 2007 - 12:20 p.m. As the election canvass proceeds throughout poll precincts nationwide, Rev. Larry Emery, spokesperson of the Nueva Ecija Team of the People’s International Observer mission reported that...

BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH / BREAKING NEWS May 15, 2007 - 11:17am The cause-oriented group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) has scored the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Commission on Elections...

BY LISA ITO BULATLAT ELECTION WATCH/ BREAKING NEWS May 15, 2007 - 11:06 a.m. Foreign observers from the Peoples International Observers Mission (Peoples’ IOM) said that they were shocked at the conduct of a powerful Presidential appointee and father of two local...

BY GMANEWS.TV Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH (AS OF 11:20 pm, MAY 15,2007) -- Seven senatorial candidates of the Genuine Opposition, an independent and four from the Team Unity ticket of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo made it to the “Magic Circle of 12"...

BY GMANEWS.TV Posted by Bulatlat May 15, 2007 - 8:30 a.m. At least two teachers died in the line of duty as at least five armed men barged into an elementary school in Batangas province and set fire to ballot boxes there before dawn Tuesday. The fire destroyed five...

BY BULATLAT ELECTION WATCH/ BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 - 11:43 p.m. Lanao del Sur gave foreign observers from the People's International Observers' Mission (IOM) a glimpse of why it is known as an election hotspot. Jessica Tulloch, an American and spokesperson of...

BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat November 14, 2007 - 7:54pm At least 200 activists belonging to the Bagong Alyansang makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) staged a rally along the Elliptical Road in Quezon City late afternoon today to condemn last...

BY AT BENGWAYAN Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S WATCH Vol. VII, No. 14 May 13-20, 2007 BAGUIO CITY (246 kms. north of Manila) – The Sixth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) slated to start on May 14...

BY KAREN PAPELLERO AND LISA ITO Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 - 11:01pm CEBU CITY—Foreign observers from the Peoples' International Observers Mission (Peoples' IOM) , said that the Philippine Army overstepped their authority for accosting and...

BY ABNER BOLOS Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 - 9:27pm The People’s International Observer Mission-Nueva Ecija team said today militarization in villages in Nueva Ecija has resulted in a new type of disenfranchisement of voters that is...

BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH / BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 - 8:28pm The poll monitoring group Kontra Daya has documented a number of vote-buying incidents and disenfranchisement cases in Metro Manila and Mindanao. The vote-buying incidents...

BY KAREN PAPELLERO AND LISA ITO Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH / BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 - 8:10pm CEBU CITY — Military troops from the 78th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army twice stopped and harassed delegates of the Peoples’ International Observers Mission...

BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH / BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 - 10:01pm Voting was supposed to have ended at 3 p.m. today. But in the town of Biñan, Laguna (35 kms. south of Manila), voting began way beyond the deadline – in some precincts...

BY MARILOU M. AGUIRRE davaotoday.com Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 - 6:43pm TORIL, Davao City — Some candidates in the city’s Third District had a last minute vote-buying spree in Crossing Bayabas last night. This is according to Boy,...

BY GERMELINA LACORTE davaotoday.com Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 - 6:24pm DAVAO CITY — Families were torn apart, the dead appeared on the voters’ list, while some people stormed out after they lost their patience in today’s polls....

BY MAI GUEVERA Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 - 5:08pm Though no longer new in a province that publicly exhibited vote buying, supporters of candidates distributed their last draw of campaign goodies before election started at 7am. The...

BY DAVAOTODAY.COM Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 - 4:43pm Davao Today managing editor Cheryll D. Fiel, who is in Compostela Valley covering the elections along with foreign observers, reports that soldiers in Pantukan town have put up...

BY LISA ITO BULATLAT ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 - 4:01 p.m. On the ground, foreign delegates from the Peoples’ International Observers Mission (Peoples’ IOM) today witnessed election violations and documented hundreds of disenfranchised voters in...