Farmers score Angaras for ‘landgrabbing’ in Aurora
By JONATHAN DE SANTOS CLOSE to 3,000 families in Casiguran, Aurora stand to lose land that many of them have been tilling for half a..
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Budget reforms up close
By CHERRY JOY VENILES IN Florencio “Butch” Abad’s book, the national budget is a game—a game, he says, in which “political actors..
Pinning their hopes on GPH –MILF pact
By JOHNNA VILLAVIRAY GIOLAGON BAGA-IR Panaggulan was on his boat that sunny day of Sept. 8, 2008, fishing in the Pulangi River in..
Wheelchair basketball in the doldrums
THE UAAP men’s basketball games has ended while the NBA regular season finally opened on Oct. 30. In all these events, a group of..
PWDs able to deal with disaster
By VERA Files WHEN it comes to disaster preparedness, Filipinos can learn valuable lessons from a seemingly unlikely group: Persons with..
Intra-ASEAN labor migration: It ain’t all bad
NOT all stories of labor migration in Southeast Asia are bleak and foreboding. Many workers are only too happy to have found employment in..
ASEAN locks horns on migrant workers’ rights
CONFLICTING interests of labor-sending countries like Indonesia and the Philippines and of labor-receiving countries like Malaysia and..
ASEAN urged to set up mechanism for migrant rights
SHORTLY after arriving in Kuala Lumpur early this year to work as a domestic worker, Marissa Santos (not her real name) began complaining..
Ateneo schoolmates now head two branches of govt
By VERA Files PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino made history by appointing Lourdes Sereno as the country’s first female Chief Justice, but he..
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