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By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante Middle East projects that under the Saudization Nitaqat scheme, some 30 percent of the 1.2M Filipinos in Saudi Arabia or around 360,000 OFWs would be affected.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“You go to a public hospital emergency room to have your wound cleaned, you have to first buy some cotton, wound antiseptic, and dressings, before you can be treated,” said Joel Bitanga, 40, an X-ray technician in San Lazaro Hospital.
Sidebar: Health workers blame Aquino’s PPPs for further crippling the Philippine Orthopedic Center
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com As the second state of the nation address of the Aquino administration draws nearer, the government and the media have been reminding the Filipino people of the supposed social contract entered into between President Benigno Aquino...
by INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Alyansa ng mga Mangagawang Bukid sa Hacienda Luisita (AMBALA) through its counsel Jobert Pahilga of the Sentro para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo (Sentra) filed a motion for reconsideration, July 20, on the...
A diminutive Aeta woman, not even five feet tall, balances a basket containing a ten-gallon container full of water on her head as she negotiates a steep incline. Members of her community did not have ready access to drinking water despite that fact that they live...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star What will happen next in the Hacienda Luisita land dispute? This is the question tossed to me by various friends, following the strong reactions to the confusing Supreme Court ruling last July 5. Voting 6-4,...
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – One afternoon, the city was almost freezing because of the typhoon Falcon's heavy rains. Nonetheless, the mercury was rising in a little bar and restaurantbecause of the announced mass holy union of eight same-sex couples....
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The national indigenous peoples’ (IP) center Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (Kamp) had welcomed initiatives of a Cordillera lawmaker to establish IP help desks in at least three departments. The group said...
Pres. Benigno Aquino III's straight yellow path has not made any impact on the lives of the poor such as the beggar in the photo. Photo by Anto Balleta (Bulatlat.com)
In the Maguindanao massacre case, it is no longer a problem of determining who masterminded and did the killings. The massacre was done so brazenly that there is no longer any need to identify the killers. That is why the sudden offer of Zaldy Ampatuan to turn...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com The phenomenon ended in this latest movie, in the second and final installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The final scene in both the book and the movie evoked the sadness of last goodbyes – for us, at least, there’ll be...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Human Rights Watch noted that while the public rhetoric of senior military officers has changed somewhat since Aquino took office, the change in language “has not yet been reflected in action.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Small but feisty, Lina Solano, an Ecuadorian woman spent most of her life defending mother earth and the people affected by the destruction brought about by plunder of Ecuador’s resources. Solano was in Manila early this...
By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Travel back in time when Tagalog films were almost always great and make it a three-decade trip via Mula sa mga aninong gumagalaw: behind the scenes 1971-2001 by noted University of the Philippines Fine Arts...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Students from all over the country staged a nationally-coordinated walk out on July 19 in preparation for the big protests slated on July 25. President Benigno Aquino III will deliver his second State of the Nation...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Comparing the local oil prices to that in other countries in the past years, Piston said the local pump prices have risen far more than the amount necessitated by price movements abroad and the peso-dollar exchange rate. The transport group continues to accuse the oil companies of overpricing oil products by “an average at least of P7.50 ($0.17) per liter.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"Are stockholders subjected to exploitation and abuse? Are stockholders deliberately kept in the dark and excluded from all pertinent discussions regarding how a business is run?" -- Lito Bais, president of United Luisita Workers Union (Ulwu)
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – It has been five years but Wilfredo Ramos could still remember the face of one of those who took Karen Empeño, Sherlyn Cadapan and Manuel Merino on June 26, 2006. During the second hearing of the preliminary investigation on...
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