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MANILA - Text-savvy Pinoys are heaping praise on a new regulatory order extending the validity period of prepaid mobile phone credits.
moreEditor’s Note: In this timeline, our researchers take you through the bumpy and tortured road towards election automation.
It has been seventeen years since the first initiatives to automate Philippine elections. The effort has spanned three administrations (Presidents Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo) and five national elections (not counting barangay elections and the ARMM gubernatorial elections).
A brief glance at world news the past weeks shows some glaring similarities with the main issues hounding our own politics. Here or there, the news is “same-same,” as broken English in Southeast Asia would say.