4 JASIG holders missing A person who says he was abducted by military men and may have been a goner had he not escaped from his captors will be presented as a witness in one of three separate petitions for writ of habeas corpus filed by human rights lawyers before...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced last August 3 the upgrading of skills and knowledge of Filipino domestic helpers who want to work abroad so that they can become what she described as “supermaids.” The move is said to address the economic dislocation...
Tabuk doctors close clinics in outcry over Claver ambush Sunburnt farmers and indigenous elders joined doctors, lawyers, religious, local government officials, student youth and progressive groups in holding a protest funeral and demanding justice for the Clavers...
"How dare they ambush a helpless family, murder a woman of their own kin, and put in danger a child's life?" the spokesperson of the Cordillera People’s Democratic Front said of last July 31’s attack on a doctor and his family. By Ace Alegre Bulatlat.com LA...
NI Rey Tamayo Jr. Bulatlat.com Sa bawat paghakbang ng nag-aalangang mga paa. Dala-dala'y takot at pangamba sa puso na nangyayanig, Isipan nama'y waring dinudurog ng mapanggipit na alalahanin. At itong mga mata ko ay natatakot nang tumingin sa paligid Sa...
Photo by Dabet Castañeda Bulatlat.com A jeep loaded with lumber gets additional passengers as rain-soaked young men hitched themselves to the vehicle’s rear, for a ride “just up to the corner”. The jeep drives through a flooded street in Hagonoy town, Bulacan...
Nurses and examinees who filed the complaint about the Nursing board exams leakage are gathering signatures to petition President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to create an independent fact-finding body. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY -...
The summer capital of the country is also the most hazard-prone, with one-third of the city prone to landslides, said government geologists. BY ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – The summer capital city of Baguio is considered by government geologists as the...
BY AK ABELLA Bulatlat.com Is it believable? Why should we even listen to her babble? It's just a break from all their political squabble While our country's economy crumbles. She keeps on promising programs galore It's becoming such a bore She acts as if she made a...
Coalition against the war formed, peace caravan held BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) advocates and their families, Filipino Muslims and Christians, and Lebanese nationals formed the Network Overseas Opposed to Wars of Aggression (No...
Filipino domestic helpers are jumping off buildings and houses to escape their employers and the war in Lebanon. But coming home to joblessness and poverty only pushes back overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to again work abroad, even if it means going to another...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com In a videotaped testimony presented before media today, Dr. Constancio “Chandu” Claver pointed to military-backed death squads as perpetrators of the July 30 shooting that killed his wife, Alyce. The tape was presented by the...
BY EDEL GARCELLANO Bulatlat.com Of course, I'll commend him. She rehearses the lines before the invisible crowd inside her head, repeating the words to make them real, authentic, smooth like silk. He's my General. A smile breaks on her impassive face. You can do...
The battle of the people of Marinduque to seek compensation for the damage created by Marcopper Mining Corporation, which was then owned by Placer Dome Inc., took a new turn as another corporation, Barrick Gold Corporation, took over. BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat.com...
No gov’t plan for those in Israel, other ME countries A migrant group bares that only 3,400 out of the 34,000 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Lebanon will be repatriated by the Philippine government. Worse, it has no crisis management plan in case the war...
BY JAMES PETRAS Bulatlat.com "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."(General Moshe Dayan, Former Israeli Defense Minister) "Army Chief Dan Halutz has given the order to the air force to destroy 10 multi-story buildings in the Dahaya district (of...
The wife of a peasant leader slain in Misamis Oriental recognized one of his assailants as someone she had seen before in the Philippine Army’s 8th Infantry Brigade (IB) whose camp is situated near their farm in Tinagaan village, Salay, Misamis Oriental, the leader...
BY PETE L. ILAGAN THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICITY CONSUMERS FOR REFORMS, INC. (NASECORE) Bulatlat.com This is to support and echo Socio-Economic Planning Sec. Romulo Neri's warning of an emerging monopoly in power generation, which immediately drew sharp...
Photo by Nicanor Segovia Bulatlat.com An African-American, a veteran of the Vietnam War, starkly looks at the camera as he mans a booth selling souvenir military patches and insignias. The booth is conveniently located near Washington, DC's Vietnam War Memorial – a...
A University of the Philippines (UP) professor and a leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) believe that, contrary to government claims, no peace agreement will be forged this year or in the remaining years of the Arroyo administration. The MILF leader...
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