VERA Files
THE Philippines filed a diplomatic protest Thursday with China over the intrusion of two Chinese patrol boats Wednesday into Reed Bank in Western Palawan where a seismic survey being conducted by the Department of Energy.
EDSA, from my perspective as then editor-in-chief of the “Mosquito Press” pioneer Ang Pahayagang Malaya of Joe Burgos Jr., broke in the early afternoon of Feb. 22, 1986 when I received a phone call from Malaya’s Malacanang reporter, Butch Fernandez, who said he had heard the distinct “ting-ting-ting” of the teletype machine that receives wire-agency news feed at the Palace press room, indicating an urgent, big development.
SAN Juan’s new city hall will rise in Barangay Corazon de Jesus that happens to be home not only to Pinaglabanan Park, a historical shrine, but to 103 families of informal settlers as well.
On Tuesday, violence erupted in the barangay as defiant residents clashed with the demolition crew sent by the city government, leaving at least 40 people injured.
Award-winning photojournalist Luis Liwanag shares with VERA Files his video of the demolition that is now the subject of an investigation ordered by President Benigno Aquino III. Click on image to view video.
By TESSA JAMANDRE
CHINA has constructed a lighthouse on Subi Reef in the disputed areas in the South China Sea which Chinese troops are occupying but is being claimed by the Philippines and Vietnam.
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.
By TESSA JAMANDRE EVEN before the diplomatic tension created by the Aug. 23 hostage crisis has subsided, President Beningo Aquino III will have to deal with another strain on the country’s relationship with China: the dormant yet sensitive issue of the contested Spratly Islands. The Spratlys dispute will be high on the agenda when Aquino […]
SIX islands occupied by the Philippines in the disputed Spratly Islands Groups are covered by two controversial joint seismic monitoring agreements among the Philippines, China and Vietnam that have come under fire for purportedly “sacrificing” Philippine interests in exchange for huge loans from Beijing.