Ronalyn V. Olea or Len to her colleagues loves to brew coffee strong enough to keep everyone in the newsroom awake. She’s a vegan and a bike commuter, braving the chaos of the road to get to meetings and errands.
Ronalyn V. Olea or Len to her colleagues loves to brew coffee strong enough to keep everyone in the newsroom awake. She’s a vegan and a bike commuter, braving the chaos of the road to get to meetings and errands.
A group of farmers asserted that the government’s bio-ethanol program will not ease poverty and hunger in the countryside but will exacerbate instead the Filipino people’s food insecurity. BY KARL G. OMBION REGIONS Bulatlat A group of farmers asserted that the...
Many people believe that seven is a lucky number. I do not know where that came from but according to my research it might have originated from the Chinese Feng Sui. Anyway, I came to Easter College seven years ago and I did not realize until today that I have...
The three biggest shopping malls in the world are located in Metro Manila. Malling (not to be confused with shopping) has become the national pastime. Why do malls thrive in a poor country like the Philippines? One reason is the emergence of the overseas Filipino...
Indeed, neoliberalism supplanted Keynesianism which advocated active government intervention through public works projects and fiscal and monetary policies to ensure economic stability and growth. The impression created is that government thereafter stood aside...
NI E. SAN JUAN, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat Pambihira ka Matatag matingkad mabagsik ang luntiang apoy sa iyong mga mata Habang dumadampi ang hamog ng umaga Sa iyong pisnging hinog sa pangarap ng masamyong kinabukasan— Nagliliyab ang iyong tapang, nakapapaso ang...
BY BULATLAT The International Verification and Fact-Finding Mission (IVFFM) on Attacks against Filipino Lawyers and Judges will begin tomorrow, November 4. Judges and lawyers from the Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (L4L) will conduct an eight-day follow-up...
First, it was retired Philippine National Police (PNP) comptroller Eliseo de la Paz to arrive at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. Then came former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc Joc” Bolante’s turn. The only people missing in this tragic comedy are...
Ang camp ay nababalot ng artifice, nakikita ang tistis kaysa sa perfeksyon ng saplot. Nagiging fluid ang relasyong pangkapangyarihan, at ang resulta ay carnivalesque laughter, tulad ng isinasaad ng lingwistang si Mikhail Bahktin. Sa isang temporal na saglit,...
BY BULATLAT The Promotion of Church People's Response (PCPR) welcomed the latest pronouncement of five members of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). In their statement, the CBCP said corruption is a social and moral cancer. They said, "In...
BY BULATLAT At least 5,000 migrant workers from different parts of the globe under the banner of the International Migrants Alliance (IMA) held a rally in Manila today to protest the opening of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). The protesters...
BY BULATLAT New York-based Human Rights Watch has called on Philippine authorities to immediately release labor lawyer Atty. Remigio Saladero. Saladero, legal counsel of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU-May First Movement) was arrested October 23 by combined elements of the...
BY BULATLAT A women’s party list group scored the Arroyo government and the Global Forum for Migration and Development (GFMD) for the intensified trafficking of Filipino women and children. To show their disgust for the Arroyo government and the GFMD, the Gabriela...
BY CYE REYES Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY—The Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) received information from a ‘reliable and credible’ source saying that missing activist James Balao is alive and is being detained by state security forces. According to Beverly...
BY BULATLAT The chief legal counsel of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU-May First Movement) was arrested yesterday around 1 p.m. by state agents. Atty. Remigio Saladero Jr. was arrested in his residence in Antipolo City by combined police and military elements led by the...
BY BULATLAT A party-list representative and peasant leader urged former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc-joc” Bolante, the alleged mastermind of the P728-million fertilizer scam, to tell all. The United States authorities reportedly ordered the deportation...
BY BULATLAT A party-list representative assailed the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and the Arroyo government’s Energy Regulatory Commission for the new round of power rate hikes. Anakpawis party-list Representative Rafael Mariano described the move as ‘power...
BY BULATLAT The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan-New Patriotic Alliance) slammed the Arroyo administration’s ‘beggar mentality.’ The group was referring to the announcement of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that the World Bank pledged $10 billion to a standby...
BY BULATLAT On the occasion of National Children’s Day, a network of child rights advocates said the government, including its military forces, remains the ‘primary violator of children’s rights.’ The Philippine government signed the United Nations Convention for...
BY BULATLAT An alliance of overseas Filipino workers' organizations based in the Middle East has set October 17 as a "Black" Friday to protest against and condemn the Arroyo administration for acting ‘too late with too little efforts to save an overseas Filipino...
BY BULATLAT Anthropology experts found pieces of burnt human bones in the vicinity of the former 24th Infantry Battalion (IB) detachment in Bgy. Bliss in Limay, Bataan. The news was relayed through a text message by Ruth Cervantes, public information officer of...
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