Former Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) vice president and artistic director Nanding Josef has made his views on cultural imperialism known. Now the veteran stage actor and art activist also speaks about economic imperialism, expressing fear that ordinary...
Prices of basic goods and services are much higher as of last January, compared to during the same month in 2007 and 2008, a study by the non-government Center for Women’s Resources (CWR) shows. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent Bulatlat Prices of basic goods...
Come April 23-24, Cordillera Day celebrations will be held in each of the provinces of the Cordillera region. Unlike in the past when a centralized celebration was held in a single host community (except in 1995), this year it will again be decentralized with one...
It is ironic that while water flows seemingly endlessly into the faucets and huge tanks of plush subdivisions in the Philippines’ big cities and urban centers, which are far from water sources, those in upland areas whose houses practically seat on vast water...
Vendors in Baguio City said that while the anti-vending policy of the local government remains in place, the city has yet to identify areas for vendors. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW REGIONS Northern Dispatch Posted by(Bulatlat.com) BAGUIO CITY (246 kms. north of Manila) –...
The Avalon 10, a group of nurses who are part of the famous Sentosa 27++, were at last vindicated after being accused of a crime they did not commit. But their fight for justice and compensation is not yet over – not until the true culprits are punished in the full...
A group of migrant workers are seeking an investigation of new service rates imposed by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in nine Philippine embassies and three consul general offices across Europe. BY(Bulatlat.com) MIGRANT WATCH A group of migrant workers...
The current deep recession that is expected to lead into a severe depression has began to kick into high gear in the Philippines in the first few weeks of the new year, portending worse things to come for the country's 36-million strong labor force. Despite the...
Local supply of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) remains tight. Even retailers complain of the lack of supply. The Arroyo government could not explain why nor would it do anything about it because of the deregulation of the downstream oil industry.
Militant organizations in Central Luzon, Catholic Bishops, environmental groups, and scientists are one in saying that the planned revival of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is costly and unsafe.
The Arroyo government’s economic program of deregulation, liberalization, and privatization has already made the Filipino people more vulnerable to the world economic crisis and yet it is not doing anything about it because it is denying the fact that the crisis...
Making Way For The Dead
The living makes way for the dead. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva)
Environmental groups said that corporate lobby, especially from the oil and energy industries, have a strong voice even among the ranks of civil society organizations during the recent United Nations (UN) conference on climate change. Green groups are therefore...
“The experience of our Asian neighbors proves that the relationship between foreign land ownership and overall levels of investment is weak,” said IBON research head Sonny Africa. “This reinforces the suspicion that HR 737 is a ruse to justify charter change for...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO (Bulatlat.com) Parallels Sixty years have the Palestinians spent away from Palestine, herded into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as the Jews were in the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Europe. For sixty years they have been fleeing from...
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