BANGALORE, India — More than 300 community broadcasters from 21 countries unanimously approved a resolution condemning the culture of impunity in the Philippines during the conclusion of the second regional conference of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)-Asia Pacific in...

The programs monitored were 24 Oras, Teledyaryo, and TV Patrol World. The programs 24 Oras (GMA-7) and TV Patrol (ABS-CBN 2) are the leading early evening newscasts in the country. Teledyaryo is aired over government-owned station NBN-4. The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) analyzed the...

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – An associate justice of the Philippine Supreme Court has filed libel charges against a journalist who wrote about his alleged role in his son’s seeking an elective post. This is the first time that a Supreme Court justice has filed a libel case against a journalist. Supreme Court...

By GERMELINA LACORTE Davao Today DAVAO CITY—Top executives of the country’s second biggest power distribution firm warned of much longer brown-outs in Mindanao as the declining water level of Agus and Pulangi rivers further push down Mindanao’s power generation capacity by about half of the island’s...

Senatorial candidate Satur Ocampo thanked city mayor Rodrigo Duterte for openly endorsing his candidacy in a dinner with 38 barangay captains of the city’s First District, Friday night at the Emerald Restaurant. Continue...

The Exodus for Justice and Peace (EJP) yesterday expressed dismay over the lack of progress in the rape-murder case of Rebelyn Pitao, the 20-year-old daughter of New People’s Army (NPA) leader Leoncio “Kumander Parago” Pitao who was killed a year ago. Continue...

The man who stood up to his chief in the Philippine National Police and was jailed for fighting Malacañang is angry. Retired two-star general Eduardo Matillano yesterday dared Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to spew his characteristic bad words straight to the face “so that the problems and sufferings of Davao City...

MANILA — A 2010 election watchdog group launched yesterday is geared not only to monitor the upcoming elections, but also to rally the public to respond accordingly should the electorate’s will be frustrated. Kontra Daya 2010, which was launched yesterday morning in Intramuros, Manila, has this early...

MANILA — A drought in the Philippines caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon has destroyed millions of dollars worth of crops, reduced the country’s water supply and is threatening widespread blackouts as power companies contend with low water levels in hydroelectric dams, officials said Friday. “It...

We view with profound concern the illegal arrest and torture of the 43 community health development workers in Morong, Rizal. Among them are the health professionals who decided to stay in our country despite the blatant lack of support system inherent in the State’s health care delivery system. This...

The Philippine military has been criticized for failing to follow a Supreme Court order to present, in open court, 43 health workers who have been arrested and labeled Communist rebels. The refusal is seen by human rights advocates here as a ‘‘dangerous precedent.’’ Last week, the military was...

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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 January) — The number of media workers killed in Ampatuan, Maguindanao on November 23, is 32 with the addition of Jepon Cadagdagon, who was not included in the media list before. Rowena Carranza-Paraan, director of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP)...

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MANILA — A witness to the recent massacre of 57 people in the southern Philippines testified Wednesday that the principal suspect in the case, a town mayor, shot several of the victims himself and that the mayor’s father, the patriarch of a powerful political clan once allied with President Gloria...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 January) – The Davao City-based lead lawyer of the Ampatuans wants former Defense Secretary, now the ruling party’s Presidential bet, Gilbert Teodoro, charged for rebellion like the Ampatuans for the Department of National Defense’s alleged involvement in proving the firearms...

MANILA — Jan. 22, 2010, would mark the 23rd anniversary of the Mendiola massacre. On that fateful day, thousands of farmers marched to Mendiola to demand for land reform and were mowed down by gunfire from soldiers from the Philippine Marines and the police. Yet, more than two decades later, those...

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