Typhoon "Pepeng" (Parma) brought howling winds and heavy rains on the northern Philippines in the past several days, flooding several areas, among them Tuguegarao City in Cagayan Province. (Photos by Mike Alquinto/NPPA...
Sergeant 1st Class Christopher D. Shaw (left) and Staff Sergeant Jack M. Martin III were the two American Special Forces soldiers who were killed in Jolo on Sept. 29, when their Humvee struck a land mine believed planted by the Abu Sayyaf. Their deaths have renewed...
By PROF. JOSE MA. SISON National Democratic Front of the Philippines Chief Political Consultant October 1, 2009 I am very happy that the European Court of First Instance (ECFI) has annulled all the decisions and the regulation of the Council of the European Union...
For the Poor, Ondoy Strikes Double Whammy
By CARLOS H. CONDE Bulatlat.com MANILA – It is an essential part of survival that people learn from every calamity, particularly the mistakes that may have contributed to it or its high cost. Here, some experts suggest ways to move forward after Ondoy. Fouad...
By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
Aid operations went into full swing two days after “Ondoy” devastated Metro Manila and other parts of the northern Philippines as various organizations started distributing relief goods to calamity victims.
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Carrying the pictures of their loved ones, relatives of slain and arrested union leaders and unionists demanded justice for workers who suffered “state-sponsored” repression under the Arroyo regime during a protest march to Mendiola last Sept. 18. The said protest,...
By (Bulatlat.com) Employees of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) have protested the planned relocation of government-run Golden Acres Home for the Aged (GA) from its present home in Bago Bantay, Quezon City to Tanay, Rizal. They also opposed...
Makabayan Coalition leaders and partylist solons Satur Ocampo, Liza Maza, Teddy Casiño, Rafael Mariano and Joel Maglunsod led some 60 rallyists in a peaceful protest on Tuesday at the US Embassy in Manila, calling for immediate pullout of all US troops, logistics...
By RITCHE T. SALGADO
For more than a decade now, Thelma Chiong has always made it a point to visit her daughters on their birthdays. This year, however, the visit was extraordinarily painful because a few days earlier, Mrs. Chiong had received word that one of her daughters’ rapists and murderers was going to be repatriated to Spain, a free man for all intents and purposes.
Consumer group TXTPower today flatly rejected calls by Malacanang to “revise” the text tax bill approved by the House committee on ways and means, demanding no less than the complete scrapping of the proposed revenue measure. “The correct and moral position is to...
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