Here, one may find herself in the middle of the jungle of Mount Apo, the Philippines's highest peak, and finds that she is still within city limits. By Germelina A. Lacorte davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY -- Far from the Moro settlement that the Spaniards found when they...
Government employees are overworked and underpaid. Their security of tenure is threatened by reengineering and privatization schemes. Worse, they have no right to strike or undertake collective action. But now they are fighting back. By Karl G. Ombion Bulatlat.com...
Even with the removal of the U.S. Bases, the sex trade never stopped in Olongapo and Subic. In the 80s, prostitution catered to U.S. servicemen. Now prostitution caters to businessmen, mostly Chinese, Taiwanese, and Filipinos, who frequent the casinos inside the...
Macapagal-Arroyo is not literally deaf and blind to the persistent protests and appeals here and abroad to cease the wanton violations of human rights. Out of lust for power, she has been consumed by her own “war on terror.” Crafted to stop the criminal activities...
BY Johann Hein B. Arpon Within a week, motorcycle-riding gunmen had turned two women into widows and five children fatherless, as political killings continue in Eastern Visayas. On Nov. 7, at past 5 p.m., Jose Ducalang, municipal coordinator of Bayan Muna-Ormoc...
First of three parts “Health is wealth” is an old adage usually drummed by teachers on pre-schoolers during lessons on proper grooming and hygiene. But under the health agenda of the government, the adage now has a new meaning - transforming the public health...
After five sessions, 21 witnesses and more than 20 hours of testimonies, the Citizens Congress for Truth and Accountability adjourned. The historic initiative brought to light the evidences that administration allies sought to keep in the dark with the junking of...
Government employees are overworked and underpaid. Their security of tenure is threatened by reengineering and privatization schemes. Worse, they have no right to strike or undertake collective action. But now they are fighting back. By Karl G. Ombion Bacolod City...
The city has become so many different things to so many different people. From merely the Nueva Guipuzcoa province, Nueva Vergara city, for the first Spaniards who arrived here, to the Japanese' "Little Tokyo" before the war, it has become an eco-tourism...
Here, one may find herself in the middle of the jungle of Mount Apo, the Philippines's highest peak, and finds that she is still within city limits. By Germelina A. Lacorte DAVAO CITY -- Far from the Moro settlement that the Spaniards found when they first arrived...
Bankerohan and the other public markets in Davao are places to explore, not only for fun but for a few pesos of savings in this increasingly difficult times. By Daisy C. Gonzales DAVAO CITY -- If you are a first-timer here -- if, let's say, you don't have any idea...
Gushes of spray bathed me, and even when I looked down, the water would sting my eyes. After a few minutes, the loud drum roll of the waterfalls faded into light pelting and my vision cleared. We were past the waterfalls and before us was the large green patch of...
A grand global fight looms in Hong Kong in December—a fight between the rich corporations and governments of the First World, and the vast number of people in the Third World worst hit by the W.T.O. By Joseph Yu Ibon Features With two failed ministerials out of...
“My paintings,” Papo de Asis wrote in 1992, “yearn to be the anguished expression of a people long denied of justice and equality...The convoluted reality of my historical past wrote the scenario to my present sources of sorrow.” By Bobby Tuazon In the last...
Papo was ever eager to know better the workers and peasants that he depicted in his works. He either lived with them or he renewed his links with them through visits and serious social investigation... He made manifest his position on social reality not only in the...
Ni Gelacio Guillermo Dipa ne ning alte, Gloria Parang reyna ng Pyestang Tugak sa Pampanga Sa kakokokak sa Malakanyang nagdonya Pekeng reyna'y tigre't santa kung umasta Sa palasyo't kampo, sa batasa't korte Nagpipista ang mga palakang mabuni May palakang Tiglao, may...
The “How’s my driving” sign appears on public utility vehicles around the country so that motorists would know what number to call when they want to tell on errant drivers. But the baby peeping out from this jeepney in Baguio City, 246 kms. north of Manila, lends...
An environmental group has accused a mining company of being responsible for the fish kill in Rapu-rapu Island in Albay province, not just once, but twice, last October. Based on the results of its fact-finding mission, the mining company must be permanently...
Three witnesses presented evidence last Nov. 16 that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her allies cheated in the 2004 presidential election. By Jhong dela Cruz Bulatlat.com An independent study by a computer expert which supported earlier claims that President...
Hadji Abdullah Dalidig was a picture of calm when he testified at the second session of the Citizens’ Congress for Truth and Accountability. Just as he was calm when he faced Namfrel chairman Jose Concepcion, who kept banging on the table, and Lanao del Sur...
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