The Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) warned that the administrative order (AO) issued by the DoH March 24, which is supposedly aimed at eradicating the thriving black market of kidney trade would only pave the way for the virtual legalization of organ trade under the pretext of “management and regulation”. BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat Vol.…

Student leaders from the University of Northern Philippines (UNP) have been met with trumped-up charges by the university administration. Ma. Criselda Diocena, Editor-in-Chief of the closed student publication, The Tandem and Student Regent and Student Council (SC) President Warren Rafal were charged with robbery after they opened the Tandem office and took out official receipts…

Para sa mga tunay na traydor at kaaway, kailangan ang eskapismo para mabigyan ng maling konsepto ng pagkakaisa ang mamamayan at mapanatili sila sa kapangyarihan. At dahil nagagamit si Pacquiao at ang kanyang mga laban ay nagiging instrumento ng pambansang pagkalimot, napapanahon na, para sa akin, ang permanenteng niyang pag-alis sa boxing ring. NI DANILO…

BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat SPECIAL REPORT Vol. VIII, No. 8, March 30-April 5, 2008 Amid recent reports of another impending rice crisis, a local university-based agricultural economist said he is not surprised by the reports because “there has been a prolonged and continuous decline in Philippine agricultural productivity since the early 1970s.” Dr. Romeo…

On the second day of the five-day search for two missing youths Romulo Robiños and Ryan Supan in military camps, soldiers denied the families and rights groups entry to what the military calls a “sacred place,” a forested area beside the office of the Commanding General in Fort Magsaysay, headquarters of the 7th Infantry Division…

For 15 years, the alleged killer of human rights worker Cris Batan has evaded arrest. But it is not because he is nowhere to be found. In fact, the accused killer Mathew B. Fanao is Barangay (village) captain of the village of Betwagan in Sadanga, Mountain Province, and is the vice-president of the Association of…

BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat March 22, 2008 – 5:01pm An alliance of overseas Filipino workers’ organizations based in the Middle East urged the Philippine government to help about 250 OFWs in Namibia who were retrenched from work following the closing down of Ramatex Textiles. Ramatex Textiles, southern Africa’s largest textile manufacturing industry located at the…