“These trumped-up charges against us are acts of desperation.”
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OFWs Face Bleak Future as Global Crisis Hits Companies Worldwide
BY MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN MIGRANT WATCH Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat DAVAO CITY — Unlike most overseas Filipino workers who lost their jobs in Taiwan, Isabelita Atis, 29, felt relieved when her plane finally touched down at the Davao International Airport in December last year. She was among the 6,468 thousand overseas Filipinos laid-off in Taiwan…
A Bullet in the Head
By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY – All the gunman had to do was pump one bullet into the head of Renato Pacaide. His death would have been quick, perhaps relatively less brutal. But it took more than a bullet to kill a man known as “Ka Atong” to many of his friends and…