A Filipino domestic worker in Hongkong protests a pay increase implemented by the Hongkong government that she and hundreds of others like her consider an insult because it is way below their demand. Migrant groups in the Chinese territory are protesting the government's piecemeal approach to wage increases for domestic workers. Hongkong is one of the top destinations for Filipino maids. (Photo: arkibongbayan.org)
'Miss-Ogyny'. Members of the Gabriela Network in New York held last week a "beauty pageant" to dramatize the killings of political activists, many of them women, in the Philippines. Photo shows a GABNet member dressed like a beauty queen, with a sash saying ?Miss-Ogyny,? and holding a purple umbrella decked with small placards containing photos of Philippine women victims of political killings. (GABnet photo) | 
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"The many ways for landlords to evade CARP, even as government reports increasing land distribution, shows how this so-called agrarian reform program is less about genuinely breaking the domination of landlords and rural elites over land than undercutting peasant resistance to land monopoly in the countryside through the implementation of spurious land reform," Ibon Foundation says.
Several of the country's largest business groups are opposed to the national broadband network, a project that aims to provide broadband Internet connection to the country's barangays, that they say "appears highly questionable." They ask: "Broadband for barangays of better education and health?"