Archive - Photos Year 2012 all 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 Items per page 12 12 18 24 30 Photos Saving lives in the valley of death By KARLOS MANLUPIG DAVAO CITY—The frail looking Italian priest wears an indigenous bandana called tubaw and is known for speaking gently regardless of whom he is talking to: Peasants, indigenous people, or government forces in the plains and hills of North Cotabato. By verafiles | Oct 27, 2012 | -minute read KEEP READING Photos More media groups challenge Cybercrime law Text and Photos by VINCENT GO VARIOUS media groups, along with individual journalists, bloggers and press freedom advocates continue to challenge the constitutionality of the government's new Cybercrime Prevention Law. By Text and Photos by VINCENT GO | Oct 4, 2012 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Photos Pinoys party at Tattoo Expo Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO WHAT started out as a gathering of a few tattoo artists at a small garage in Malate district in Manila twelve years ago has grown to be the biggest tattoo exposition in the country. By verafiles | Oct 1, 2012 | -minute read KEEP READING Photos Activists demand disclosure of river pollutants By VINCENT GO Activists and community leaders on Thursday demanded that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources install a pollution disclosure system that will require industrial facilities to publicly declare the chemicals they use in their products and manufacturing process, and report how these are discharged, treated or transported. By verafiles | Sep 15, 2012 | -minute read KEEP READING Photos Local leader condemns blasts By VINCENT GO ZAMBOANGA CITY—A local leader has condemned the twin explosions that shook this city on Thursday, saying perpetrators had no respect for a place of worship during the holy month of Ramadan. By Vincent Go | Aug 18, 2012 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Photos Scenes from a Water Festival By VERA Files It’s the feast of St John the Baptist, and in his honor, Filipinos brought out their water canons, guns and hoses. In Cavite City, they called it a water festival and christened it Regada. By verafiles | Jun 24, 2012 | -minute read KEEP READING Photos Farmers demand CARP completion By VINCENT GO Hundreds of farmers from Negros Occidental and Batangas marched to Manila to ask President Benigno Aquino III to immediately distribute land to farmer-beneficiaries before the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program ends in 2014. By verafiles | Jun 14, 2012 | -minute read KEEP READING Photos Women who climb ships FOR about four decades now, prostituted women have climbed ships docked at the ports of Davao. These women are called akyat barko girls, which means ship-climbing girls. By verafiles | Jun 7, 2012 | -minute read KEEP READING Photos Images from an impeachment Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV On Tuesday, May 29, 2012, the Senate either acquits or convicts Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona after an impeachment trial that stretched over nearly five months. By verafiles | May 28, 2012 | -minute read KEEP READING Photos Don’t worry if not hired at job fair, DOLE says By XIANNE ARCANGEL Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV ALDRIN Ortiz left his house in Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon as early as 3 a.m. on Labor Day, not to attend a workers’ rally but to be among the first applicants to line up at the Labor Day Jobs and Livelihood Fair at the World Trade Center (WTC) job fair in Pasay City. By verafiles | May 6, 2012 | -minute read KEEP READING Photos Activists say ‘No’ to GMO eggplant Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO GENETICALLY modified organism walked the streets of Malate yesterday to dramatize the dangers of GMOs in food and the ecology, as environmentalists asked the Supreme Court to stop field trials of genetically modified eggplant. By verafiles | Apr 27, 2012 | -minute read KEEP READING Photos SM Baguio security guards photograph protesters AT SM Baguio, security guards don’t just inspect bags of people entering the mall as part of their daily routine. By Text and photos By SHIELA ABALLA, Video by LUIS LIWANAG | Apr 24, 2012 | 5-minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination 1 2 3 Older posts