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Ina Endena is concerned at the impact of the new rice varieties on Agawa community life. Since the introduction of the biit, the synchronized planting season has been inexistent. During a community holiday for example, the farmers usually break the ubaya or...
Rights watchdogs led by Karapatan are set to file complaints and reports with the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva next month. The complaints over the spate of political killings will ask Macapagal-Arroyo to account for the killings which have to date...
Calling current moves to amend the 1987 Constitution as “Malacañang’s initiative,” a broad array of leaders from the opposition and people’s organizations gathered once more to reiterate their resistance to Cha-Cha through people’s initiative, as proposed by Sigaw...
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...
October is harvest time in the Philippines but farmers have nothing to be happy about. The farm gate price of locally produced palay (rice grains) remains dirt cheap and that their earnings are only enough to pay their debts. They would even have to borrow milled...
BY BULATLAT Relatives of desaparecidos, or those who were abducted and missing, paid tribute to their loved ones and vowed to fight for justice on the International Day of the Disappeared today, even as human rights workers fear there will be more victims of...
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...
Photo by Ace Alegre / Bulatlat Do storms and typhoons dampen business? Not so for umbrella repairmen like Mang Ramon here, photographed in Baguio City (246 kms. north of Manila). In fact, for him, business is at its prime during the strongest rains as customers...
The “pakyao” system or piece-rate labor arrangement has replaced the work arrangement in many sugar farms in Negros. Workers on “pakyao” system set their own work time and methods, divide among themselves the contracted price which is usually lower than minimum...
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 In Central Luzon, the mad rush for cedulas (community tax certificates) has reached such absurd proportions that people have been known to forego even activities considered more urgent in normal times. This is driven by the campaign of...
By Christopher Salzberg Oh My News International World Posted by Bulatlat.com After a decade of conflict and more than 13,000 deaths, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known as Chairman Prachanda, leader of the Communist Party of Nepal and commander of arguably the most...
At least 21 generals in Arroyo cabinet, civil service hierarchy Is a de facto military-civilian junta now ruling the country? This appears to be the case with the increasing number of military and police oligarchs occupying key posts in President Gloria...
NI E. SAN JUAN, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com “Walang pag-aalsang nasasayang. Bawat isa’y hakbang sa wastong direksyon.” —Salud Algabre (Para kina Sarah Raymundo, Sherlyn Cadapan at Karen Empeño) Kamusmusa’y pinaglahuan, Mahal ko, Nahubdang kariktan ng lawa bundok...
NI RADO CERVO Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Ang moog sa bundok ay di matitinag kung bawat prinsipyo’y ating iyayakap nang buo't mahigpit sa katawang kaltab ng labanang hindi kailanman mapupuknat sa mahal kong bayang sintang Pilipinas. Inilathala ng...
BY THE Philippine Political Science Association Bulatlat.com We, officers and members of the Philippine Political Science Association, fully condemn the continuing nationwide extra-judicial killings of leaders/activists of legal mass organizations, social...
Thirty four years since the declaration of Martial Law and 20 years since its downfall through a people power uprising, the specter of another dictatorship is more real today than ever. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Thirty four years since the declaration of...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Hindi ito ang wakas ng aking kahapon. Naputol man ang sanga ko ay mayroong uusbong Na palumpong at muling tilanghad ang pagbangon Sa mga layuning dapat pang ipagpatuloy. At kung ang nabakling sanga’y magsungay sa sapa Ng...
NI MILA D. AGUILAR Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Ang mamamatay-tao Walang sinisino Maging Esperat ka man O di kaya'y Empeno. Makinig, ay makinig, Abang kababayan Huwag ka nang paggulaman Sa babaeng gahaman. Di mo ba nakikita Naubos na yaman Ng iyong abang bayan? At...
The controversial Tasadays lost their identity as a group because of fallacious media projection and faulty research. BY PINK-JEAN FANGON MELEGRITO Dispatch Posted with other reports by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY – The controversial Tasadays lost their identity as a...
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