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After more than two months, retrenched overseas Filipino workers from Taiwan are still waiting for any form of government assistance. This despite the claims of the government that it is prepared to respond to the needs of retrenched workers here and from abroad...
The Flags of Convenience (FOC) system, or the practice of ship fleet owners of flying a different flag, is currently the biggest problem among seafarers for it has been an instrument of big capitalists profiting from the maritime industry in escaping from their...
Ito ang kultural na lohika ng estado ng bansa sa kasalukuyan—kung ano ang kalakaran para ipaliwanag ang kaganapang ekonomiya, politika at lipunan. Showbiz ang pangunahing retorika ng pambansang kaganapan. Nililikhang showbiz ang politikal at ekonomiyang arena, at...
BY BULATLAT Heightening the campaign to stop the use of the Social Security System (SSS) funds for the P330 billion economic stimulus package, groups held a nationally-coordinated petition signing and picket protests in front of the offices of the SSS in major...
BY BULATLAT Amid the economic crisis, a legislator called on the the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to provide guidelines to stop any tuition increase for school year 2009-2010. Bayan Muna Representative Teodoro Casiño expressed this to CHED officials at the...
BY BULATLAT The multi-sectoral group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) has called on the Arroyo administration to to immediately regain custody of convicted rapist L/Cpl. Daniel Smith and to sack Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo...
BY BULATLAT Activists and religious groups in Davao City welcomed Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, the whistleblower on the controversial National Broadband Network-ZTE deal. Lozada is the speaker of today's forum dubbed "Truth, Honesty, and Good Governance" organized by the...
Peasant organizations Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, Peasant Movement of the Philippines) and the Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA, Union of Agricultural Workers) condemned the abduction, arrest and detention of their colleague. BY BULATLAT HUMAN...
If members of the Social Security System (SSS) opposed the use of their P12.5 billion fund for the P330-billion economic stimulus package of the Arroyo administration, Filipino migrants too are against the use of P250-million Overseas Workers Welfare Administration...
BY BULATLAT Another activist was shot dead this morning in Calatagan, Batangas. Wilfredo Gonzales, 52, Bgy. Bucal, Calatagan, Batangas was gunned down while driving an Elf-truck, around 6 a.m. today by two motorcycle-riding men, human rights group Karapatan...
With the beat of gongs, rhythm of tongatong, tambi, saggaypo, and kubing, and of course with the progressive Salidummay lyrics, the Dap-ayan ti Kultura iti Kordiyera (DKK) has been a channel for safeguarding the Cordillera cultural heritage and promoting cultural...
The elders of Cordillera expressed support for the bill seeking to provide free health care for senior citizens in government hospitals. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW REGIONS Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – The elders of Cordillera expressed support for the bill seeking to...
Experts have described the recession as a "supercrisis", which could be long and deep. Its impact on poor and underdeveloped economies like the Philippines is just starting to unfold. Obviously, emergency employment through a stimulus package as well as labor...
Cha-cha proponents argue that removing the Constitution’s nationalist provisions is key to reviving foreign investment flows into the country. Yet this is a weak argument for an effort that is also about President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s extension in power beyond...
Sa unang malas, mistulang seryoso ang administrasyon sa hangarin nitong maging isang world-class university ang U.P. Sa pamamagitan ng biswal na pagpapaganda, hangad nitong umangat ang ranggo ng pamantasan kapag inihanay na sa mga unibersidad sa ibang bansa, kahit...
In a historic referendum, the students of the University of the Philippines (UP) reaffirmed the rules governing the selection of their lone representative to the highest policy-making body of the university. BY JEFFREY OCAMPO Contributor Bulatlat In a historic...
Relatives and colleagues of missing activist James Balao asked the Benguet Regional Trial Court to give teeth to its decision on the petition for writ of amparo. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat LA TRINIDAD, Benguet –...
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