After postponing the planned increases in LRT and MRT fares because of the widespread protest over this, the Aquino government is now hell-bent on pushing through with it. Why? Because of pressure from private investors. By Flon Faurillo...
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY -- Tobacco farmers in three Ilocos Region provinces and in Abra of the Cordillera Administrative Region recently agreed to ask the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) to raise the price of tobacco leaves to P128 per kilo of...
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TEXT AND PHOTOS BY GREGORIO B. DANTES Jr.
By NANCY MURRAY and KADE CROCKFORD Truthout.org International On August 5, 2002, President George Bush declared, "We're fighting ... to secure freedom in the homeland." Strikingly, he did not use the word "nation," or "republic," but instead adopted a term, with...
By SOPHIA CHENG Commondreams.org International The world's largest electronics manufacturer, Foxconn Technology Group, has a plan for ending the grisly run of worker suicides that have drawn it unwanted attention over the past two years: replace human workers with...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star It seems the land of opportunity isn’t America anymore (nor Europe). For Filipinos, anyway. Not right now. Despite the recovery of the big banks through massive government bailouts, the US economy — in deep...
By D. L. MONDELO Bulatlat.com AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands - The recent Wikileaks expose' of a 2007 cable from the US embassy in Manila (which was published in Manila newspapers) revealing the collaboration between the Dutch, Philippines and US governments to file...
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY GREGORIO B. DANTES Jr.
ByDr. Giovanni Tapang Prometheus Bound / Manila Times We spent the long break back at my hometown in Malolos where my ten year old nephew keeps his pets around. He has several of them including a brood of bantam chickens, a flock of pigeons, three dogs, and their...
A vendor sells potable water to food stalls in a street near Sto. Nino Church Cebu City. Photo by Clemente Bautista (Bulatlat.com)
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld In marked contrast to the positive and hopeful outcome of the GPH-NDFP peace talks that resumed in February of this year, an impasse has now indefinitely delayed the holding of the second round of formal talks...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star In the Philippines, tax evasion through “sophisticated accounting” by the very rich individuals and corporations explains, to a large extent, the perennially low BIR income tax collections. The wage-earners,...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld WHAT “grave injustice and irreparable injury” would anyone suffer if prevented from smoking in public, or from inhaling the smoke from a burning cigarette and the smoke smokers exhale? Judge Carlos Valenzuela of...
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TEXT AND PHOTOS BY KARLOS MANLUPIG
Ni RON MAGBUHOS Hinahanap ko sa mga dahong nananalamin sa araw ang iyong larawan, sa tangang mga piraso nito’y pilit na inaaninag ang bawat kahulugan ng iyong pakikipag-diinang kamay sa Masa, bawat talakayan, bawat martsa, hinahabing paunti-unti sa pag-asang ito ay...
Ni Tam Ling Tuwid ang daan. May dilaw na tali ang bawat tanglaw Ngunit lasing at susuray-suray ang dumaraan, Tila hindi alam ang patutunguhan. Tuwid ang daan, Ngunit sa dami ng bako'y hindi ka makadadaan Matarik at papabagsak ang iyong lalakaran, Mag-ingat at sa...
ByDr. Giovanni Tapang Prometheus Bound / Manila Times Public opinion, in theory, is the sum of all the views, attitudes and beliefs of a community on a particular topic. How society views an issue is important in politics, elections and in other spheres such as...
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