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Photo of the Week: Young ‘Director’
Photo of the Week: Young ‘Director’
Young "Director." The little girl is poised as though she's intently watching a scene being played out from a film that she's directing. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva)
Salungguhit: The Lords of Pharmaceuticals
Salungguhit: The Lords of Pharmaceuticals
The Lords of Pharmaceuticals. Multinational corporations hold sway over the pharmaceutical market in the Philippines, amassing huge profits by controlling the prices of medicines. Meanwhile, many among the Filipino people, unable to afford the high costs of medicines, suffer from and even die of curable diseases. (By Flon Faurillo)
Hanjin Gets Away With Murder While Arroyo Regime Turns Its Back on Workers
Hanjin Gets Away With Murder While Arroyo Regime Turns Its Back on Workers
What has the Department of Labor and Employment done about the health and safety violations that have resulted in more than 40 deaths and over 5,000 injuries in the three and a bit years Hanjin has been operating at Subic? What has happened to the Senate probe, which kicked off promisingly in early February amid a flurry of publicity about the then recent deaths at Hanjin?
Strike Cripples Public Transport in Several Areas Across the Philippines
Strike Cripples Public Transport in Several Areas Across the Philippines
“Our transport strike is a success.” Thus said the Task Force July 13, a transport group coalition, at the conclusion of the day-long strike it led in selected Metro Manila routes and regions outside the capital on Monday. Through the strike, they said, they were able to register their protest against the overpricing of petroleum products by the oil companies, particularly the so-called Big Three, and their connivance with the Arroyo regime. View the slideshow
Slideshow: Strike a Success, Say Transport Groups
Slideshow: Strike a Success, Say Transport Groups
Transport Strike a Success, Say Groups
Video: Filipino Youths, Students Unite Against Arroyo’s Charter Change
Video: Filipino Youths, Students Unite Against Arroyo’s Charter Change
Youths, Students Unite Against Cha-Cha
For Jeepney Drivers and Truckers in the Philippines, a Long, Hard Slog
For Jeepney Drivers and Truckers in the Philippines, a Long, Hard Slog
Since the Arroyo regime expanded the value-added tax on oil and since the implementation of the oil-deregulation law, most jeepney drivers have to work long hours, often up to 14 hours a day. If they don’t, whatever money they earn for the day will only further enrich the oil companies -- and they go home penniless. Think about this the next time you are tempted to curse jeepney drivers for being uncouth, discourteous and undisciplined, as the government is wont to depict them.
Massive Transport Strike Set on Monday; Groups Denounce Oil Firms’ ‘Greed’
Massive Transport Strike Set on Monday; Groups Denounce Oil Firms’ ‘Greed’
Public-transport drivers and operators in several urban areas across the country – including, for the first time, Makati City – denounce the measly oil-price rollbacks by the Big Three oil companies, as well as their “manipulation” of the prices of oil and gas products, such as LPG, to the detriment of unorganized and ordinary consumers.
Slideshow: Defiant Students Brave the Rain, Bomb Scare to Protest Cha-Cha
Slideshow: Defiant Students Brave the Rain, Bomb Scare to Protest Cha-Cha
Students Walk Out of Classes Vs Cha-Cha
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