By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee International League of Peoples” Struggle Posted by Bulatlat.com Driven by self-interest and malice, Gloria M. Arroyo cannot be expected to comply with the memorandum of the Amnesty...
Memorandum submitted to Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International Posted by Bulatlat.com Introduction On 15 August 2006, Amnesty International issued a report,...
Between January 2001 to September this year, records from the human rights alliance Karapatan-Southern Tagalog showed 142 extra-judicial killings in the region. Cases of human rights violations have reached 2,280 affecting 9,222 individuals or 13,102 families. By...
As the ranks of victims of human rights violations under the Arroyo administration continue to grow, their families, survivors of rights abuses and rights advocates had formed HUSTISYA, or justice, which they vowed will tirelessly fight until justice is served. BY...
By Nopporn Wong-Anan Reuters Posted by Bulatlat BANGKOK - Even though Thailand's last military coup was 15 years ago, when Bangkok motorists spotted tanks rolling down the street last week, many thought the army was up to its old tricks once again. "I received more...
Country in southeast Asia on the Gulf of Siam, bounded east by Laos and Cambodia, south by Malaysia, and west by Myanmar (Burma). Government A hereditary monarch is head of state. A number of constitutional changes were implemented through the 1990s. There is a...
By Shawn W Crispin Asia Times BANGKOK - As Thailand's military settles into its provisional authority role and awaits to see which prominent figure assumes the interim leadership role, for all intents and purposes His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej has, through...
By Flon Faurillo Bulatlat.com Is the country being visited by the ghost of the Marcos dictatorship? This appears to be the case. Today as in the years immediately before the declaration of martial law on Sept. 21, 1972, the Filipino people are reeling from poverty...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Si Bang-aw ay isa lamang sa limang batang lagalag na ligalig Sa lansangang naglalansa ang kalan ng kanal at imburnal. Ang limang daliri’y isinuksok sa naglalantiting garapong pawis, Upang bumalani ang pampasabog na lasa ng...
NI MARK ANGELES Bulatlat.com Inilathala ng Bulatlat Pag-expire ng century, tulog pa rin si Brady. Pinapak na ng mga uod mga utusan at tanod sa tore ng cadena de amor kung saan siya nalugmok. Tulog pa rin si Brady, pag-expire ng century. Binagtas na ang tunnel of...
Gagastos ang Singapore ng SD$3 milyon para magkaroon ng isang brand image. Isa rito ang “Uniquely Singapore” na nagpapahiwatig na espesyal ang magiging karanasan sa bansa. Subali’t sa likod ng magarbong imahen na nais ipalaganap ng bansa ay ang mga kwento ng mga...
That tasty, thumb-sized meat product that used to be called as “the Ultimate Baguio Pasalubong” is this year’s focus of the 3rd Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism (HRT) Weekend, when the longest Baguio original longganisa will be paraded and sold on Sept. 30 along...
Several provinces have competed to make it to the Guinness Book of World Records for preparing the longest tupig (a variety of rice cake). For the people of the northern provinces of Luzon island, cooking and selling tupig is rooted in their way of life, is a...
The start of “ember” season, which is marked by the opening of sugar milling season and increased economic activities, is traditionally viewed as the beginning of good tidings for most sugar workers. It is seen as a season of “sugar money” perking up economic and...
Perhaps every original Baguio City resident marveled at the once-grandiose mansions of the Marcoses here. By all indications, they were posh. What is to become of these mansions? Some local government officials here are considering the idea of turning these into...
The World Bank, in its recently-released "Governance Matters 2006" report, gave the country a lower ranking in its control of corruption benchmark, falling from 50.5% in 1998 to 37.4% in 2005. BY IBON FOUNDATION Bulatlat.com The World Bank, in its recently-released...
The future of some 12 million “unauthorized immigrants” in the U.S., including nearly 1 million Filipinos, is at stake in two U.S. immigration bills. If the law is enacted, multitudes of Filipinos will be deported and the remittance-dependent Philippine economy...
The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is a dangerous first step towards complete government renunciation over policy-setting towards the development of the domestic Philippine economy, said IBON research head Sonny Africa. BY IBON FOUNDATION...
Was it a simple case of attempted hold-up, or was it a political threat? The recent attack on a council member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJP) Baguio-Benguet chapter by an unidentified knife-wielding man has brought this question to the fore. BY ARTHUR...
He may have been detained for almost seven months now, but Ka Bel is not letting his captors off the hook. Clad in a red barong and escorted by fully-armed Philippine National Police (PNP) personnel, detained Anakpawis (AP) Congressman Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran...
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