The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalist has expressed concern over the jailing of former Bombo Radyo broadcaster Alex “Lex” Adonis, who was convicted and imprisoned for libel charged by Davao City congressman Prospero Nograles. Inquirer columnist Conrado de Quiros has likewise railed against Adonis’s fate.
Child-advocate groups in Davao City and the region have called on the Commission on Human Rights to investigate the death of Grecil Galacio, the nine-year-old girl from Compostela Valley province…
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50 FILIPINO SAILORS SERVING ON CRUISE LINER THAT SUNK IN GREECE SAFE
7 April 2007 ? The Philippine Embassy in Athens Officer-in-Charge Eleanor Jaucian has reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that all the 50 Filipino sailors serving on the cruise liner ?Sea Diamond?, which sank in Greece last Friday, are safe.
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FILIPINO SEAMAN DIED IN ACCIDENT AT SEA IN GREECE
7 April 2007?The Philippine Embassy in Athens Officer-in-Charge Eleanor Jaucian has reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that a Filipino sailor died in an accident at sea last Friday off Corfu Island, northwest of Athens.
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Communist Party of the Philippines
CPP belies child soldier tag on 9-year old girl killed by soldiers
April 7, 2007
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today condemned the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for killing a nine year old girl in Compostela Valley last March 31 and covering up their heinous crime by claiming that the victim was an “11-year old child soldier of the NPA.”