The military said today that an Italian priest has been abducted in Zamboanga Sibugay, in the southern Philippines, according to this report. The report identified the priest as John Carlo Bossi, parish priest of Payao town.
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Abducted pastor: �I should speak for the victims, the disappeared.”
Oliver North, the former colonel in the US Army who figured prominently in the Iran-Contra scandal in the ’80s, recently reported for the Fox News Channel the hunt for terrorists in Sulu. “It was like hitting the jackpot in the global war on terrorism,” North said in his report, referring to the $10 million reward given to Filipinos who provided information that led to the deaths of Abu Sayyaf leader Khadaffy Janjalani and Abu Solaiman. North hosts Fox’s “War Stories.”
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)
Desaparecidos in the Philippines: A continuing nightmare
‘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?”
Commentary | Mas migrabe ug mitaas ang ihap sa mga kaso sa pagpanglapas sa tawhanong katungod sa niaging eleksyon. Kaylap ang black propaganda sa mga progresibong party-list. Kaylap usab ang harassment, pagpanghadlok ug pagpangbahad ang nasinati sa mga lider, miyembro ug tigsuporta niini sa tibuok rehiyon sa Caraga.
MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Lao People�s Democratic Republic Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh witnessed today the signing of an…
