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By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com SAN JOSE DEL MONTE, Bulacan – Hilaria “Violy” San Jose, 44, brought with her some of their fresh produce—rambutan, balimbing, guyabano, kamoteng kahoy and saba. “If the MRT 7 project pushes through, we could no longer have fresh...
A boy does a double take as he walks pas a blind street musician. (Nathan Road, Kowloon)
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last Wednesday in New York, President Aquino made two statements, both related to the martial law dictatorship that Ferdinand Marcos imposed on our nation 39 years ago that very day and ended with his ouster...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The protracted global economic depression is sending the economies of even advanced capitalist countries such as the United States and members of the European Union on a tailspin. Despite fits of financial...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld THE “American official” President Benigno Aquino III quoted in his speech at the University of Fordham in New York as complaining that “the problem with the Philippines is that it has 40 million cowards and one SOB...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Learning from the impact of typhoon Ondoy, which hit the country hard two years ago, President Benigno Aquino III, upon assuming the presidency, sacked the chief of Pagasa, the country's weather bureau, and declared a "zero casualty...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – The Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide-Metro Baguio chapter (Piston-MB) requests the city council to revise its implementation of clean air ordinance. Piston-MB president Carlito Wayas...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The environment is struggling for survival, and it cannot heal its wounds without our help. This was the message delivered by various environmental activist groups as they held a series of activities to call attention to the...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com As the debate on biofuels and whether or not it is an effective alternative source of energy to mitigate the impact of climate change continues to rage, the effect of converting thousands of hectares into biofuel plantations...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com After typhoon Pedring hit the country hard comes the Aquino government's imposition of a 12 percent value-added tax on toll fees. The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) is demanding anew that Malacañang drops all its plans to...
By MARYA SALAMAT
By October 1, regular PAL workers are under threat of being locked out of PAL, as the Lucio Tan Group of companies would start its outsourcing plan in earnest.
By ACE ALEGRE Reposted by BANAUE, Ifugao – Little known but locally popular agricultural sharing and indigenous self-help system called “chawwa” is being resorted to in a bid to save the endangered rice terraces of Banaue, Ifugao. The famed but deteriorating...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“These land lease schemes have turned farmers into mere low wage-earning agricultural workers instead of being empowered owner-cultivators.” – Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – “He is so shameless!” This was the reaction of Concepcion Empeño, mother of missing activist Karen Empeño on Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr.’s recent announcement about his plan to run for a partylist seat in 2013. Palparan, then...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) expressed full support for the workers of the Philippine Airlines (PAL) who held a work stoppage, Sept. 27 in protest of the impending massive layoff. More than 300 members of the Philippine...
By MARYA SALAMAT
The recorded profit of the top 1,000 corporations in the Philippines ballooned more than five times (552-percent) in a decade, but the average wages and salaries increased only 31-percent over the same period.
Sidebar: Rep. Winnie Castelo will 'plank' for P125 wage hike bill
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Rep. Winnie Castelo told the legislators’ forum on wage hike this Monday that he is willing to withdraw his anti-planking bill in Congress if it would impede freedom of expression. In fact, said Castelo, “If the House of...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“We are continuously receiving complaints from OFWs whose relatives were victimized by an extortion gang in the NAIA. These extortionists demand to be shown the AOS, but afterwards went on to ask for money.” – Migrante
By Bulatlat.com DAVAO City-- Eight soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines' 69th IB were killed and an undetermined number were wounded after a team of the New People's Army's 1st Pulang Bagani Company engaged them in a firefight on Sept. 19 at 1:15 pm. It...
Reposted by MANILA -- Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno hailed today a forum of legislators in the House of Representatives which takled the need for and prospects of a legislated wage hike, saying the increasing prices of basic goods and services warrant such a...
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