MANILA — Last May 16, history was made as three Pinays became the first Southeast Asian women to summit Mount…
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed its backing for the observance of June 7 as a �Black Day�…
Jing Cardino
Gilbert Rey “Jing” Cardino was abducted at around 11 a.m. today at Crossing, Barrio 2, Koronadal City. At 27, he is the youngest member of Bayan Muna’s national council. House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo quickly denounced the abduction and demanded that the military, whom he suspected of being behind the kidnapping, surface Cardino. Joel Virador, also a Bayan Muna congressman, urged Arroyo to order the military and the police to stop these enforced disappearances. “Without such an explicit, publicly stated order, more activists will either be killed or abducted,” Virador said.
LISBON, Portugal (via PLDT)—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expressed confidence Tuesday that the long-awaited Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the economic power…
MANILA — Task Force Mapalad (TFM) belied reports that a heated argument between farmer-beneficiaries and security guards of Hacienda Velez-Malaga…
MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr. (PDP-Laban) today urged the Commission on Elections, acting as national board…
According to Senator Joker Arroyo, the military has lobbied for the junking in the House of Representatives of a bill that seeks to compensate victims of human rights violations during the Marcos dictatorship. The military, Arroyo said, fears that the money would just go to insurgents and rebel groups.
In a privilege speech Monday, Arroyo said the military’s lobbying “demeans and mocks the legislative process” because it shows that the “military can throw a monkey wrench even at the tail-end of congressional work.”
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MANILA, Philippines — The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today assailed what it called the �stonewalling tactics� of the Intelligence…
(Brussels, 5 June 2007) As it hosts one of the last country summits of its EU Presidency, Germany should not…
Jumana Musa, Amnesty International�s legal observer at the military commission hearings in Guant�namo Bay for the last two years issued…
