Caraga Soldiers Accused of Illegal Arrest, Detention

Niadtong Abril 27, 2007 sa buntag samtang si PAULINO ?Dodoy? TARAY, sakto ang pangidaron, minyo, usa ka mag-uuma ug lumulupyo sa Purok #4, Mabog, San Roque, Bislig City kuyog sa iyang pamilya nagpahulay sa ilang panimalay kalit nga gilibotan sa mga kasundaluhan sa 36th Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army pinanguluhan ni Lt. De Leon ang ilang balay. Dayon gipangti-onan sila ug pugos nga pagawason si Paulino, kung dili kini mogawas ug mukuyog kanila istrapingon ang ilang panimalay. Dili lalim ang gibati nga kahadlok sa pamilya ni Dodoy Taray ilabina na sa iyang mga gagmay nga anak. Gidala siya sa sentro sa Sitio Mabog ug didto siya gi-imbestigar, tungod sa pag-abot sa igsoon niini nga babaye gibuhian si Dodoy Taray.
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Philippines: EAGA transport cluster to reopen Gensan-Bitung sea link

GENERAL SANTOS CITY- Seeing the need for further expanding trading ties
within BIMP-EAGA, the sub-region’s working group on sea linkages agreed
recently to revitalize the sea link connecting the tuna-belt region of
Southern Mindanao and North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Comelec list of nominees show Malaca?ang?s ?grand scheme? to undermine Philippines’s party list system

MANILA — The Bayan Muna party list today said that the COMELEC list of party list nominees confirms the Arroyo administration?s ?grand scheme to pack Congress with its own party list lackeys in order to thwart another impeachment complaint.?
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Where Is Jonas Burgos?


Where is Jonas Burgos? Family, friends, and human-rights advocates march last week to denounce the abduction of Jonas Burgos (right picture in banner), the son of press freedom icon Joe Burgos (left picture in banner). The young Burgos was an activist working with peasants in Bulacan. Military agents are suspected to be behind his kidnapping. (Photo courtesy of arkibongbayan.org)

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