Thousands of students in Metro Manila walked out of classes Friday in protest of tuition hike and the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic leaders meeting.
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An official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has asked the Aquino administration to execute a moratorium on all coal-fired power plants as a concrete step to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The city government has asked businesses here to light up also their stores as the city prepares its usual lighting up the city beginning December 4.
Urban poor group Kadamay calls on street dwellers and vendors in Manila to defy orders by authorities to leave their posts for the final week of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit.
Party-list group Anakpawis today criticized the Aquino administration for ensuring that it would get the lion’s share under the proposed Salary Standardization Law of 2015 (SSL 2015) with an allotted budget of P226 billion.
A global alliance of grassroots women activists is meeting today in Manila to protest the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit among state leaders which they call as a grand conspiracy to push military and political agenda of the United States.
After forcibly evicting the residents from their houses and bulldozed their farmlands in 2009, Oceana Gold is now destroying the water sources of communities adjacent to the mining site with their toxic mine tailings.
The military denied the claim of progressive groups that it is supporting the Alamara, allegedly an anti-communist group of the indigenous peoples.
A week before the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, President Benigno S. Aquino III conducted an inspection Tuesday of the venues as well as the Ninoy Aquino International Airport terminals which will be used by the delegates when they arrive for the summit.
A workers group has demanded the Social Security System (SSS) to implement austerity program and make more efficient its collection system to help meet the P2,000 monthly increase in monthly pension for its 1.9 million pensioners.
