Initial reports revealed that a gunman riding on a motorcycle shot Ferdie Lintuan at close range while he was on board a car leaving his radio station, DXGO Aksyon Radyo, at about 10 am today. He sustained a gunshot wound in the head. Two other broadcasters, Louie Ceniza and Edgar Banzon, were with him in the car.
Nearly 2,500 Manobo and some Visayan settlers returned to their homes in twelve communities of Surigao Sur on Wednesday after living for a month in overcrowded evacuation centers. However, upon return, the Lumads found their homes had been forcibly entered and ransacked, their belongings scattered anywhere like a storm had passed through, and garbage left behind. Their rice and animals were gone, their cooperative stores had been looted, and their tribal schools desecrated.
A relative of jailed broadcaster Alexander Adonis has raised fears for his life when a powerful politician who got him convicted of libel had caused his allegedly unwarranted extraction from…
After seven years of patiently enduring the legal action brought against them by the Lapanday Agricultural and Development Corporation (Ladeco), Dr. Romeo Quijano, president of Pesticide Action Network Philippines, and…
The National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC) and Alyansa ng Filipinong Mamamahayag (Afima), has responded to a distress call from a jailed Davao-based broadcaster and vowed to support the…