President Benigno Aquino III has disclosed that the Philippine government has asked US to deploy P3C Orion spy planes, land-based maritime surveillance and anti-submarine aircrafts over the disputed sea.
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Lawmaker files House resolution declaring a moratorium on demolitions
“While the government has no concrete plans for informal settlers, no demolition should take place in communities.”
Asia-Pacific workers wage struggles to turn ‘formal’ rights into reality
Everywhere, restrictions on workers forming genuine unions have prompted them to do union organizing in an “underground” or clandestine way, at least, at first.
Indonesian workers battle high prices, low wages despite producing oil, registering growth rates
The spate of increases is driving Indonesian workers to take to the streets, conduct strikes and file demands for wage increases.
PH-Belgium trade pact likely to revive P18.7 B dredging project in Laguna Lake
Pamalakaya said the dredging is in preparation for the across-the-lake privatization and conversion of the 90,000-hectare lake.
Rights group decries irregularities in jail transfer of NDF consultant
The CHRA deemed that the transfer “is a ploy to disrupt the hearings of Bangibang’s cases and to lengthen his unjust detention.”
‘I should have remembered what my father wore on the day of his disappearance’
So meeting Samuel felt like meeting a brother whom I shared a similar childhood, having activist parents; and a shared pain of losing them. But more than that, it felt like meeting a comrade from the different side of the world, which I shared the same struggle with –the struggle for justice.
European advocates urge EU to withdraw 10 M euro grant to Aquino government
The resolution passed by the International Conference on Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines cited the “failed justice program” of the Aquino government in calling for the aid’s withdrawal.
City council urged to walk the talk for watershed preservation
Mining threatens to destroy Davao City watershed, but city council still has to find out how and where a Lucio Tan-owned mining company has secured permit to explore the area for mining.
Davao folks see no change as Aquino gives 4th SONA
‘There’s a fine line between growth and development, and what we need is the latter.’
CPP lists ’10 lies’ Aquino would claim in his SONA
Revolutionary group asks Filipinos to brace for, repudiate, Aquino’s “deluge of lies.”