By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld We’ve heard this tune before, for example whenever Benigno Aquino III is accused of not doing anything about extrajudicial killings and the killing of journalists (he claims the latter’s “not serious”), decorates and promotes police and military officers involved in torture and illegal detention, or simply ignores…
Day: March 1, 2014
Shrink’ US Army to pre-WW II level?
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last Monday the Pentagon submitted its $496-billion budget for 2015 which, among others, would start to “shrink” the US Army from 570,000 to 450,000 troops by 2019. That would be the army’s smallest size since 1940, before its massive build-up to a 6-million force…
Cases of violence against women and children increasing – Center for Women’s Resources
Alarming is the fact that more women and children are falling prey to trafficking and violence because of the devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda.
Women struggling to cope, fighting against high prices
Poor families developed terms to cope with the hunger such as memorize or imagine, practice, peking duck, altanghap and piso-piso.
SIDEBAR STORY | Cases of violence against women and children increase – Center for Women’s Resources