1. Household name The case exposed the Tokyo stock exchange‘s trading systemA raid on Livedoor‘s offices on 16 January roiled the Tokyo share market as investors pulled the plug on other web companies and a flood of "sell" orders threatened to bring down the exchange‘s trading systems.

2. Alex Veloso Bello of the OFW Congress in Riyadh agreed that there’s «a general feeling of distrust on our government’s ability to make this election clean.» He said his group had asked community members and the common answer was that it was an exercise in futility since the votes won’t be counted properly («dadayain lang naman»), there will be no reforms («wala namang pagbabago»), nothing good will come out of it («walang mangyari»), or it will be the same rotten system («pareho parin ang systema»). Still Hopeful Despite the general feeling of helplessness as a result of the low turnout, there were those who refused to give up.