PANTUKAN, COMPOSTELA VALLEY–Compostela Valley is turning into a military garrison and the soldiers under the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) are showing their brand of fascism aiming to repress and manipulate local residents.
World Press Freedom Day was bittersweet for the Philippines, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) who again called for reform to the country?s libel laws, which are so often used to silence critical reporting of the Arroyo administration.
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MANILA — The Supreme Court will train the first batch of Regional Trial Court (RTC) judges who will handle cases involving killings of political activists and media members during an extensive seminar-workshop at the Manila Pavilion Hotel along United Nations Avenue, Ermita, Manila on May 7 and 8.
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by Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno
Supreme Court
The motto of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) is Tanglaw ng Bayan, literally Light of the Nation. As you leave the portals of this university, your feet will bring you down to the lowly valleys of life or up to the mountaintops of life. As Viktor Frankl once wrote, ?Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.? You are light but be warned that ?what is to give light must endure burning.?
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The recent Social Weather Station (SWS) survey that showed many Mindanaoans believe cheating in elections to happen again indicates the public still perceives Malaca?ang and the Comelec to engage in…