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By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA -- “We are overworked but underpaid, but even so, I never think of quitting my job,” said Michelle Silva, a teacher of five years at the Demetrio Tuazon Elementary School. On this year’s World Teachers Day, Silva, like...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Reposted by BAGUIO CITY – Students from State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in Region I join other SUC students nationwide in launching different forms of protest actions against the slashing of the national budget for state...
Northern Dispatch (nordis) Weekly www.nordis.net Reposted by BAGUIO CITY – Media practitioners and journalism students joined the seminar-workshop on child protection organized by The National Council for Children Televisions (NCCT), Philippine Press Institute...
A son dutifully takes his elderly father to a walk along the busy streets of Kowloon. (Nathan Road, Kowloon)
Ni RICHARD R. GAPPI Salin sa Ingles ni ARIS REMOLLINO Mansanas, ang alangaang; ang gitna ng sanga at balat ng daigdig. At ang sinumang nais kumagat ay hindi naghihintay ng batak ng halubigat* kundi hatak ng palad. O tipa ng daliring nagliliyab na ang mitsa ng init...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star That political dynasties continue to dominate Congress isn’t hard news anymore. A news report on an Asian Institute of Management Policy Center study showing this has been relegated to the inside, rather than...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld In a remark that has since been condemned not only by the protesting students but also by engaged academics, thinking journalists and even half-asleep politicians, Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com President Benigno Aquino III finally visited affected provinces in Central Luzon more than a week after typhoon Pedring devastated Luzon and inundated the region, with the help, of course, of private corporations managing dams in the...
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Matagumpay ang education strike laban sa budget cuts noong 23 Setyembre 2011. Mga isang libo raw kaming nagmartsa mula sa UP Diliman, kasama ang guro at kawani, karamihan ay estudyante. Walong libo na nang makarating sa...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Felisando Repaso, 53, was hoping he could get some financial assistance from the Social Security System (SSS). His house in Cupang village in Antipolo, Rizal was shattered by the strong winds of typhoon “Pedring.” A jeepney...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Resume the peace talks and discuss the damage mining companies wreak on the environment. This was the call of environmental activist group Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE) in the...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Aquino shows no regard for the essential issue in the indigenous people’s struggle for the very life of their communities, their children, their way of life, their future,” Luis Jalandoni of the NDFP said.
Sidebar: Group says peace talks should tackle 'destructive effects' of mining
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Pambansang Lakas ng Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) and allied groups under the Resist Apeco! Defend Aurora Movement are pressing the Senate to investigate one of its own. In a symbolic protest which saw...
by ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY -- Long-standing opposition to mining is turning out into another snag in the peace negotiations between the government of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front. Conceding that the Communist Party of the Philippine...
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Communist guerillas operating in Ilocos Sur has admitted that two of their comrades were slain by government soldiers in an almost week-long gun battle in Cervantes town, Ilocos Sur a week ago. Benny Boy “Ka Likot” Aguilar...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – It is bad enough that the Philippine government has been ceding to the private sector the operation of vital public services such as major highways, turning its operation into a business instead of a public service. What is...
Prometheus Bound By GIOVANNI TAPANG, PhD Bulatlat.com MANILA -- It came as a surprise to receive a call from my sister in Bulacan last Thursday, since I was the one who was supposed to be sending her a birthday greeting then. She was worried about the floods in the...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- John Mark Malquisto, 19, was forced to stop schooling after his grandfather, who shouldered his school needs, died. "I really wanted to study but what can I do? I do not have the resources to send myself to school,"...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“It’s really ridiculous that the people are already paying for the cost of constructing roads and on top of that paying for taxes on their payments.” – former Rep. Renato Diaz, consultant when VAT law was crafted 17 years ago.
Sidebar: VAT on toll fees, a precedent for all public services under PPPs
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Workers of a radio station based in Davao City are gearing for a strike after the management insisted on a moratorium on increases in salaries and benefits. Members of the Radio Mindanao Network Davao Employees’ Union...
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