The June 4 decision of the Japan Supreme Court will reverse the old law which only grants nationality to Japanese-Filipino children whose parents were married legally. The new law will include children whose parents are not legally married.
Arroyo said she has ordered an all out military offensive not only against the Abu Sayyaf, but also against the Communist New People’s Army (NPA) so that the government can finally “return Mindanao to its people,” she said.
The National Food Authority (NFA) is selling its special grade imported Thai rice in commercial markets here to bring down the soaring prices of rice that have gone up to as much as P52 a kilo in the previous weeks.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said he will not allow a witch hunt against political activists in the city even as he ordered a prompt investigation on the killing of a peasant leader here recently.
Lex Adonis, the former anchorman of Bombo Radyo-Davao jailed for libel, filed a complaint addressed to the UN High Commission on Human Rights, challenging the legality of the criminal libel laws in the Philippines.
Pencils and notebooks made in Germany and Switzerland, durable umbrellas, raincoats as big as blankets because European sizes are almost twice as big as average Filipino sizes, used toys curiously making their way to the Lumad communities in Mindanao.
Landscaped and painted in bright pastels, the duplexes that make up the new women’s facility of the Ma-a city jail resemble a village that reminds inmates of home.
Dureza said the government is currently working on another draft on the ancestral domain clause that will hopefully be acceptable to the MILF to break the deadlock in the peace negotiations.
Reverend Fr. John Yuji Kanzaki, chair of the Philippine committee of the National Christian Churches of Japan (NCCJ), remembers growing up in Japan, where he used to love bananas as a boy. Bananas are expensive in Japan, he tells reporters here, When I was a boy, I cant stop eating them. But a recent visit in banana plantations in Compostela Valley made him change his mind.
After hearing about the successful launch of the e-jeepney in Makati, Davao officials are excited about the prospects of electric-powered cars, saying it could lessen the country’s dependence on gasoline.
