Fourteen workers of a coconut desiccating plant in Davao del Sur died in a smashup of two trucks on Monday.
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President Rodrigo Duterte drew flak on Monday after his controversial onstage kiss with an overseas Filipina worker while on an official visit to South Korea.
For the militant labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), the response made by Solicitor General Jose Calida to the petition to scrap the Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law is a gesture of hypocrisy.
The recent arrest of a women rights worker in Caraga region is another misogynistic move of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) with the aim of silencing women who refuse to cower in fear in the face of the continuing imposition of martial law in Mindanao.
The removal of former Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno from his office through a quo warranto filed by the Office of the Solicitor General poses a serious threat to the judicial independence in the country.
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers party list slammed the shortage of personnel and classrooms as same old woes confront the 23 million students, teachers and administrators as the school year 2018-2019 opens this June 4.
The Committee on Agrarian Reform at the House of Representatives is seeking to amend the age requirement of heirs of landowners under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law.
While Malacañang lauded the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) in both chambers of Congress, a Moro group, on the other hand, expressed doubt the measure would help heal the injustices committed against the Bangsamoro.
The KAWAGIB Moro human rights group condemned the “massacre” of eight members of the 105th Base Command of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces-Moro Islamic Liberation Front (BIAF-MILF) and one civilian by the Matalam Provincial Police and the 7th IB of the Philippine Army in an anti-drug operation in Matalam, North Cotabato.
Members of the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, May 30 filed House Bill No. 7806 for the granting of Filipino citizenship to Australian Missionary Sister Patricia Fox.
