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...weeks after being convicted of plundering an estimated $15 million from public coffers during his two-year reign, deposed former President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada today walked out of the posh estate where he has been under house arrest, pardoned by the woman who replaced him, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. "There is no substitute for freedom," Estrada told reporters upon his release...
...Additionally, Boston City Councillor At-Large Felix Arroyo appealed to the BRA to give the community more time to digest Harvard’s plans, noting that the 90-day comment period has been “too short to resolve many of the complex issues raised by the Report and the project itself...
...Arroyo administration has scored some recent successes. Last month the economy grew 7.5% in the second quarter from the previous year - which was above market forecasts - as private and government consumption boosted growth to its strongest level in two decades. And, though the troubles in fractious south have flared up in recent months, the government is planning to hold talks with some Muslim separatist groups...
...fresh corruption storm cloud is brewing over Arroyo's government. Members of her government have been accused of ramping up the price of a government broadband contract with a Chinese firm, ZTE Corp. The country's Supreme Court has issued a restraining order to keep the deal from going through for now. Opponents have resurrected old, unsatisfactorily resolved scandals as well, including one that involves her election victory in 2004. All this could slow down her government as Arroyo approaches her last two years in office...
Meanwhile, Estrada has returned to his country estate, to attend to his ducks and dig the weeds from his vegetable patch. The people of the Philippines have grown used to corruption, says Benito Lim. "I don't know if Estrada or Arroyo are guilty of the allegations made against them," he said. "But I would say that, though the Philippines did not invent graft or corruption, our politicians have turned it into an art form. The problem is we read and hear about it all the time, at many levels of government. And nobody is ever punished for it. Even...