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DAVAO CITY — City Mayor Sara Duterte has backed the environmental group's opposition on the proposed cutting down of trees in the contested Mt. Makabol-Alikoson conservation area (MMACA), a nesting area of the critically endangered Philippine eagle, in the hinterlands of Marilog District here. The
Century-old trees get Davao City’s support
Fraudulent signatures in recall petition rattle Aichi's political world Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you're not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ Aichi Prefectural Police investigators confiscate boxes of signatures in a recall petition against the prefectural governor in February in Nagoya. | CHUNICHI SHIMBUN Chunichi Shimbun May 10, 2021 Over the past few months, Aichi Prefecture has been rattled by the discovery of fraudulent signatures gathered for a recall petition calling for Aichi Gov. ...
“Unhappy Ties” Between Prefecture and City The Osaka metropolis plan was a proposal to abolish the city of Osaka and to realign and merge the districts within it into special wards, similar to the 23 subdivisions of central Tokyo. Between the new metropolitan government and the wards, jurisdiction was to be clearly divided, the former taking full charge of regionwide issues such as urban planning and economic growth strategy, and the latter managing local public services ranging from welfare to household garbage collection. The aim was to streamline the governance of Osaka by eliminating ...
An official at an advertising company in Nagoya admitted the firm was asked to hire workers to ghostwrite scores of signatures for a governor recall petition by an official from the campaign, sources said. Nearly 100 part-timers hired by the company spent about 10 days in October 2020 copying the names of eligible voters from the voter registry onto the petition to recall Aichi Governor Hideaki Omura, the sources said. The company had received an order from the recall campaign official to the tune of several million yen to produce the signatures, according to sources. The company submitted th...