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Slideshow: Youths Out in the Streets Vs ‘Piggish’ Arroyo
Slideshow: Youths Out in the Streets Vs ‘Piggish’ Arroyo

Youths Out in Streets Vs 'Piggish' Arroyo
All Set for Wednesday’s Anti-Arroyo Protests Across the Philippines
All Set for Wednesday’s Anti-Arroyo Protests Across the Philippines
Groups across the Philippines are gearing up for what they promised to be one of the biggest nationwide protests against the Arroyo administration and its efforts to amend the Constitution.
Bulatlat to Harness the Internet, Multimedia Tools for Coverage of Cha-cha Protests
Bulatlat to Harness the Internet, Multimedia Tools for Coverage of Cha-cha Protests

Bulatlat introduces Bulatlat Live, the website's newest multimedia feature that makes full use of the Internet to cover major live events. For its debut coverage, Bulatlat Live will cover the protests on June 10, Wednesday, against charter change. From Makati City, where the main rally will take place, to several key areas across the country, Bulatlat's pool of editors, reporters and correspondents will provide updates and breaking news -- text, images, audio and video -- either in real time or immediately after they occur.
Poor and Sick Filipinos Pay Dearly for Failure of Cheaper-Medicines Law
Poor and Sick Filipinos Pay Dearly for Failure of Cheaper-Medicines Law
A law passed last year to bring down the prices of drugs and medicines has not delivered on its promise, according to consumer and health advocates. It failed to break the stranglehold of huge transnational drug companies on the Philippine market. It also squandered an opportunity to develop the local pharmaceutical industry.
Street Bingo
Street Bingo

Street Bingo. No polo field for these urban-poor residents playing bingo along Tomas Morato Avenue, in Quezon City. (By Raymund Villanueva)
Spinning Good News from Bad Economic Data
Spinning Good News from Bad Economic Data
All these hard sell about a strong economy – despite undeniable data that the Philippines is on the verge of a recession -- would be further exposed and discredited as the global crunch and the country’s own perennial crisis deteriorate. For Arroyo, the political costs can be huge.
Derailing the Cha-Cha Train
Derailing the Cha-Cha Train

Derailing the Cha-Cha Train. After the railroading of House Resolution 1109, the charter change (cha-cha) train is now on track, and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo must be jumping with joy at the idea that there is now no obstacle to her staying in power beyond 2010. Arroyo, however, should not be too sure of victory: she and her minions may have put one over the opposition in Congress but she cannot underestimate the power of an enraged public, which may yet derail the Cha-cha train. (By Flon Faurillo)
Slideshow: Crispin ‘Ka Bel’ Beltran — Man of the Century
Slideshow: Crispin ‘Ka Bel’ Beltran — Man of the Century

Crispin Beltran: Man of the Century
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