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Journalists step up campaign to decriminalize libel
By EIMOR SANTOS and REYNARD MAGTOTO
AS long as libel is a criminal offense, there remains a threat to freedom of expression,media practitioners declared as they marked Press Freedom Day. »Read More -
Protesters denounce China ‘bullying’
Text by LLOYD REYES
Photos by VINCENT GO
THE tension between the Philippines and China continues to simmer as more than a hundred protesters gathered in front of the Chinese Consulate General in Makati Friday to denounce what they called as “China’s continued bullying of the Philippines” over conflicting ownership claims of the Scarborough Shoal also known as Panatag shoal. »Read More -
ADB blamed for power crisis in Mindanao and Visayas
By REYNARD MAGTOTO
"LISTEN, do not privatize the country’s power industry." This was the message of some 70 delegates of the Global Union Federations (GUFs) to financial executives of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which it blamed for the current power crisis in Visayas and Mindanao. »Read More -
Infighting among Luisita farmers deepens after SC victory
By HOMER TEODORO
SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD Felix Nacpil Sr. jumped in joy when he heard the news about last week’s final ruling of the Supreme Court awarding the Hacienda Luisita sugar estate owned by the family of President Benigno Cojuangco Aquino III to their 6,296 farm workers. »Read More -
Unrest in Hacienda Luisita looms anew
By HOMER TEODORO
THERE’S a brewing tension between labor unions and 10 barangay chairmen of Hacienda Luisita because of their conflicting lists of farmer-beneficiaries considered to own and possess the 4,915.75-hectare sugar land estate of the Cojuangco family in Tarlac. »Read More -
No more black sand extraction in Lingayen, LGU promises
By FRANKLIN Q. DE GUZMAN
DAGUPAN CITY—No more extraction of black sand in the Lingayen Gulf coast.
Representatives of the Pangasinan provincial government reached this agreement on Wednesday with residents of four Lingayen barangays—Sabangan, Estanza, Capandanan and Malimpec—opposing the mining of black sand near the gulf. »Read More -
Ona: increase in HIV cases in PH alarming
HEALTH Secretary Enrique T. Ona said Wednesday the increase in Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the Philippines is alarming and requires a more focused approach to reverse it. »Read More
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Judge orders arrest of bus driver in Chit Estella death
A QUEZON City regional trial court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of bus driver Daniel Espinosa charged in the death of journalism professor and VERA Files trustee Lourdes “Chit” Estella Simbulan after he was a no show at his arraignment. »Read More
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Torture complaint vs North Cotabato cops dismissed
COTABATO CITY--No sufficient evidence.
The City Prosecutor’s Office in Kidapawan City has dismissed due to insufficient evidence the complaint filed against three police officers of North Cotabato who were accused of torturing suspects in the bombing of a bus that left nine people killed in October last year. »Read More -
New HIV cases in PH reach all-time high
NEW cases of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the country reached an all-time high of 204 in July this year, the highest number of new cases recorded by the Department of Health (DOH) in a month to date. »Read More
