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BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com “People’s initiative is an idea that comes from the people, it is not an idea imposed on (them),” lawyer Mejol Sadain, who retired from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) last February, said in an interview with...
BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luson News Service Posted 10:00 p.m., Apr. 9, 2006 TARLAC CITY — Ronald Intal, the youth leader in Hacienda Luisita who was abducted allegedly by government troops and has been missing since April 3 may be alive and in the custody of the...
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 7:00 p.m., Apr. 24, 2006 Around 500 members of the women’s group GABRIELA, most of them residents of urban poor communities, held a march earlier today to protest against low wages amid the rising prices of prime commodities. Prices of basic...
BY Abner Bolos GLNS/ Bulatlat.com Posted 6:39 p.m., Apr. 27, 2006 City of San Fernando—After almost a year of protest, workers in Hacienda Luisita have succeeded in pushing the government to declare as illegal quarrying operations for the Subic-Clark-Tarlac...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Posted 7:06 p.m., Apr. 27, 2006 A former vice president, a former senator, and a law dean have joined the team working as private counsels for the complainant in the Subic rape case. Former Vice President Teofisto Guingona...
(Photo by Ace Alegre) The boy in blue carries his brother on “piggy back” across Session Road in Baguio City (246 kms. north of Manila). They were photographed amid the high popularity of the “reality TV” show Pinoy Big Brother, a local version of a show that first...
Preventing changes in government through “People Power” uprisings is among the reasons for the proposal to shift to a parliamentary system, in which changing governments will supposedly be institutionalized rather than left to direct people’s action. BY CENTER FOR...
BY Rod Tajon Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com SAN FERNANDO CITY — Nine months after the death of journalist and activist Romy Sanchez, the chance of attaining justice remains nil. According to Elvira Sanchez, Sanchez’s wife and convenor of the Justice for...
Photo by Ace Alegre A Kankanaey boy helps his father prepare their rain-fed payao (rice terrace) in Sabangan, Mountain Province for the next planting season, which comes just a little after the New Year. The family dog looks on as the boy is intent on his work. A...
By Grace S. Uddin davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY -- While busy falling in line along with other children to get his share of porridge, Rickmon, 11, recalled why he was sent to the SOS Children’s Village to live with the other children he didn’t even know. “I was so thin...
BY Reporters Without Borders Posted by Bulatlat.com In 2005: * 63 journalists and 5 media assistants were killed * at least 807 journalists were arrested * 1,308 physically attacked or threatened * and 1,006 media outlets censored On 1 January 2006, 126 journalists...
Review of Sala sa Saysay, an anthology of poems by Richard R. Gappi, published by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Award-winning poet Richard Gappi’s first book of poems, Sala sa Saysay (Fault in the Narrative), is a slim volume – all of 41...
And so this is Christmas, and what have the soldiers done? Burn the buildings of a learning center in Baler, Aurora province, said its staff. BY NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted by Bulatlat.comBulatlat Days before Christmas, the staff of a local learning center went home...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com Found by relatives on Dec. 5, the body of Jocelyn Diaz-Pernia, 34, showed bruises on the face and stomach and strangulation marks on the neck. Pernia’s case is not unique. She is in fact just one of 12 victims of domestic violence...
Photo by Ace Alegre One of the favorite spots in Baguio City (246 kms. north of Manila) these days is the "Night Market" along Harrison Road, open from 8 p.m. to 12 midnight, where all sorts of buyers flock to check out second-hand clothes and other used items sold...
( Photo by Ace Alegre ) A boy demonstrates his acrobatic skills to his playmates at the World War II Veterans Memorial Park in Baguio City, 246 kms. north of Manila. They are all sons of homeless urban settlers in the said city. The way they look, they do not seem...
Death Sentence President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo received nods of approval from the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) – which has been issuing statements increasingly critical of her policies – for her recent declaration commuting...
BY HAIDER RIZVI OneWorld.net NEW YORK - A leading international human rights group is calling for the Bush administration to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged involvement of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials...
BY GRIFF WITTE The Washington Post Occupation officials got cash and gifts for deals. An American businessman who is at the heart of one of the biggest corruption cases to emerge from the reconstruction of Iraq has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, bribery and...
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