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By MYLAH ROQUE
RELATIVES of victims of the year-old Maguindanao massacre on Monday sought the help of the visiting United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression in speeding up prosecution of members of the Ampatuan family and more than a hundred others charged with the multiple killings that have been described as the country’s worst election-related violence.

MINDANEWS, a Mindanao-based news organization, is this year’s recipient of a Peace Award given annually by the Ateneo de Zamboanga University.

By AVIGAIL OLARTE
NEARLY a year after the Maguindanao massacre, the Aquino administration has yet to make good on its promise to disarm and disband all private armies in the country.

FILIPINOS rate as “poor” the government’s handling of the nearly year-old Maguindanao massacre case, according to the Social Weather Stations.

By CHIT ESTELLA
AN international human rights organization said Philippine government support for political warlords was responsible for the Maguindanao massacre and other blatant incidents of human rights violations committed by such forces.

PRESIDENT Aquino enjoys approval and trust of the people despite several controversies in his five-month presidency as shown in the survey conducted by Pulse Asia last month.

SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD farmer Victoriano Cordero remembers the day in 2008 when Arnie Teves of the powerful Teves clan in Negros Oriental drove him away from the house he had lived in for the past 40 years.

PRESIDENT Aquino has appointed three prominent Filipino businessmen to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Philippines to represent the country in the two-day APEC CEO summit in Yokohama, Japan that will precede the APEC leaders meeting on Nov. 13 and 14.

BANGKOK, Thailand-- Members of human rights organizations in Southeast Asia have given the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) a failing mark for its performance in its first year.

ONE success deserves another. Inspired by the success of their “Pulutan — from the soldiers kitchen,” Magdalo officers Elmer Cruz and Emerson Rosales have come out with a Tagalog version of their cookbook that was in the bestsellers list of the National Book Store for six months when it was first published in August 2007.

THE proportion of families experiencing involuntary hunger at least once in the past three months has eased to 16 percent, or about three million families, down from over 20 percent in the past three quarters.

THE magnitude of the economic ties between China and Philippines is now so strong that this cannot be disturbed by the fallout from the recent hostage crisis. In fact, the Philippines has far more total investments in China in the form of direct foreign investments compared to direct Chinese capital invested in the Philippines.