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By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA –Wearing a black dress, Monette Salaysay took the stage and began speaking. Her voice broke and her tears fell the moment she uttered the name of her husband, Napoleon, one of the 32 journalists killed in the Maguindanao...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Remigio Saladero Jr. regrets one thing: after he and six other co-accused in "fabricated criminal charges" were released from prison, they did not file a counter suit against their captors. Saladero is one of the 72 Southern...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Witness Wilfred Ramos said Staff Sgt. Edgardo Osorio was the one who hogtied him and his father the day the two students and Merino were taken by some 20 armed men.
MEDIA RELEASE 12 August 2011 MANILA -- “Given the present disposition of the Aquino regime, Charter change will most likely not serve the Moro people but the US’ capitalist and militarist interests.” This was labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno’s reaction to the Moro...
PRESS STATEMENT 15 August 2011 GPH in a state of denial of the raging civil war and the existence of two governments in the country - NDFP SURIGAO DEL SUR -- When the government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH) brands as “criminal” the humanitarian act of...
NEWS RELEASE 16 August 2011 Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan dismissed today attempts by Charter Change proponents to paint a rosy post Cha-cha scenario. “Let us not be fooled by Cha-cha’s promise of investments. Our experience shows that foreign...
MEDIA RELEASE Aug 17, 2011 MANILA -- “It is revolting how the oil cartel, in connivance with the Aquino regime, continues to boost their already-huge profits out of workers’ and people’s misery over the overpricing and skyrocketing prices of petroleum products.”...
PRESS RELEASE 15 August 2011 The New People's Army (NPA) in Compostela Valley province today lambasted the 10th Infantry Division-Philippine Army-Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Commission on Human Rights (CHR)-XI for blaming the NPA for the unintended...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Every life is valuable,” Remy Maltu, union president of the San Lazaro Hospital, said, adding that whether less or more are becoming afflicted today by dengue, the patients still need medical services which public hospitals are becoming more and more constrained to provide with cuts in their budgets.
Sidebar: Community health workers criticize government’s inadequate response to dengue
By Bulatlat.com Main Story: Lack of comprehensive solution to periodic dengue outbreaks decried MANILA -- “It is normal for dengue cases to rise at this time of the year.” Such is the comment you hear from some of the government’s health officials. The statement is...
Ni Simoun Garyo Ilag Nang maisip mo nang umalis at mangibangbayan Duon magtrabaho at makipagsapalaran Titiisin ang lungkot sa pamilyang iiwanan Kumita ng dolyar sa pagisilbi sa dayuhan. Sapagkat sa tingin mo kung mananatili ka rito Mamumuhay sa gutom at hindi...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com DLUMAY, Sarangani -- We were trekking the Lunkan Range for nearly six hours. Exhausted and thirsty, I was desperate to reach Sitio Dlumay at the soonest possible time. There was hardly an opportunity to crack a joke regarding...
A flock of racing pigeons fly circles around their trainer perched on a rooftop. Pigeon racing, long a favorite past time in Metro Manila, has become a truly global sport with bets that could go as high as millions of dollars. (General Luna Street, Intramuros, Manila)
Iggy Arroyo has done it again: he has come to the rescue of his older brother Miguel Arroyo, husband of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, by owning up to the crime of his brother. The script has been the same, after there seems to be no escape for older...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com In his second State of the Nation Address, President Benigno Aquino III has made the banning of car sirens called wang-wang as a symbolism of how his government has supposedly put a stop to the abuse of power and corruption. However,...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Let me share with you this heart-tugging story, still unfolding, of six Blaan tribal communities in Malapatan, Sarangani province: Dlumay, Datalnay, Dungan Bahay, Alna, Q-gam, and Siman. These communities are...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Of late the Aquino government’s peace panel negotiating with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has aggressively stepped up its propaganda offensive against the NDFP and the latter’s main...
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By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Reacting to President Benigno S. Aquino III’s proposal to amend the Human Security Act of 2007 , human rights groups told Aquino the law should instead be repealed. During the recent Legislative-Executive Development...
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