Globalization has resulted in the destruction of domestic and export manufacturing enterprises, since they cannot compete with cheaper dumped products in the local markets nor in the global export market against manufacturing powerhouses such as China, and this is...
If President Arroyo wants to talk about “social payback from the booming economy,” the only acceptable and meaningful social payback that Filipino workers deserve today is a substantial wage increase complemented by price control reforms, tax reforms, and drastic...
ANALYSIS Macapagal-Arroyo’s Wage Hike Proposal is `Anti-Poor’ Any wage hike results in increased purchasing power for workers. However, it can be anti-poor if it does not take into account the interests of those who are getting less and benefits those who are...
BY DEE AYROSO Posted Jan. 24, 2007, 2:02 p.m. Activists condemned the continued killings of activists by suspected military agents, the latest of which were three Bayan Muna party-list members slain separately in Albay and Sorsogon provinces in the Bicol region in...
Photo by Dabet Castañeda Bulatlat Matched against the cloudy afternoon sky, the silhouetted figures of the men rowing across the Manila Bay, near the Baseco Compound in Tondo, Manila looks like one for the postcards – a scene that would have sold like hotcakes...
By Flon Faurillo Bulatlat The opposition and administration camps are now frantically preparing for the May 2007 national and local elections. The Lakas-NUCD-led administration coalition party has been downplaying the opposition’s chances of winning, harping on the...
China never had to exert massive military might or economic investment to gain influence in Southeast Asia. After the US resumed relations with the mainland, members of the Association of South-East Asia Nations (ASEAN) followed suit. During the Cold War, the US...
Will Hutton The Observer guardian.co.uk In the last decade China has emerged as a powerful, resurgent economic force with the muscle to challenge America as the global superpower. But, in his controversial new book, Will Hutton argues that China's explosive...
NI AXEL PINPIN Inilathala ng Bulatlat I. Paano Binuo? Pingkian ng pawisang katawan habol ang halinghing ng digmaan habang tinitiis ang gabing maalinsangan at nang ang kapirasong dugo ay hulmahin ng ulos at tuluyang mabuo. Ito ang bunga ng inyong pagmamahalan (At...
Pagpupugay kay Kasamang Monico Atienza NI E. SAN JUAN, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat Tuwing dalaw namin, naghuhuntahan tayo sa lagusan ng DiliMall – Ngiti't biro mo'y testimonyo, sa gitna ng terorismong umiiral, Sa masiglang pagsulong ng proletaryong masa sa bansa't...
Bakit, ano at paano? Ilang makabuluhang katanungan habang umaambon. NI ROLAND TOLENTINO Bulatlat Kapag napigtas ang tuyong dahon sa tangkay ng puno Hindi na ba ito bahagi ng malagong puno? Kapag pinatuyo, tinosta at giniling ang buto ng kape Hindi na ba ito butong...
As expected, de facto President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lost no time in trying to parlay her claimed “success” at the 12th ASEAN Summit and the East Asian Summit into glowing predictions about the economy not just in the medium term but within the year 2007. But at...
Algeria was a country we never studied in any of our geography or history classes. As proof of my ignorance, when I heard of Algeria, I though it was a rich, small, and quaint European country. So imagine my surprise when Bulatlat sent me to watch the public...
BY KIM QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET — Residents and local government unit (LGU) officials of Itogon, Benguet have opposed the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Housing Cooperative's request for the proclamation of a portion of...
Having to face the problem of racism while their parents had to juggle their time to more than one job to earn a living, Albert Lopez, like other Filipino youth living in Canada, turned to his gang and to drugs for comfort and a sense of belonging. That was until...
During the 1216th Meeting of the Board of Regents (BOR) held on 15 December 2006, the highest policy-making body of the University of the Philippines did not only approve a 300 percent hike in tuition and miscellaneous fees. The BOR also ruled that “tuition will be...
Supermarkets in Metro Manila, the Philippines’ most populous region, are still selling Uncle Sam Texas Long Grain Rice even if it was confirmed last November to be contaminated with a genetically-engineered (GE) strain disapproved for human consumption. Bulatlat...
Frustrated by the continued refusal of Nestle management to implement the Supreme Court’s decision by beginning the negotiations with the union, workers and their relatives marked their five-year strike by erecting a barricade blocking two gates of the factory. BY...
Twenty years after the infamous Mendiola massacre, the victims and their families have yet to attain justice. The government did not give them any assistance even for burial expenses. Instead, they were threatened and harassed by government security forces. But on...
Residents of affected baranggays (villages) in Albay province share common stories of hardship and trauma as a result of typhoon Reming which hit the Bicol region last November 30. More than a month after the tragedy, they are trying to move on despite the...
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