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  • MANILA--With the
    “alarming ” number of
    minors involved in pornography,
    advocacy for the passage of the
    anti-child pornography bill has
    increased.

    The Catholic bishops’
    leadership said it is good that
    the legislators are finally doing
    something about child pornography,
    but the bill against it must be passed
    soonest.

    Fr. Conegundo Garganta,
    CBCP’s Episcopal Commission on
    Youth executive secretary (ECY),
    said a strict law against criminals
    who profit from child pornography
    must be put in place.

  • MANILA--President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said today that the signing of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) has opened new opportunities for Filipino health workers to work in Japan starting April this year.
    The President said this in her speech before the 28th joint meeting of the Philippines-Japan Economic Cooperation Committee (PHILJEC) and the Japan- Philippines Economic Cooperation Committee (JPECC) this morning (Friday) at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati City.