A decade after a regional property bubble burst, the country�s golf industry swings to fresh hits every summer, courtesy of moneyed Filipinos from the United States.
The lack of access to health facilities in host countries aggravates the maltreatment already suffered by some Filipina migrant workers, making them more vulnerable and unattended to.
The government apparently thinks so. A Philippine Star report says that the “government has identified 10 areas in the Philippines where nuclear power plants could be built and has begun a program to train nuclear scientists to man such facilities.”
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.
Abducted pastor: �I should speak for the victims, the disappeared.”
“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?”
MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Lao People�s Democratic Republic Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh witnessed today the signing of an…
Gilbert Rey “Jing” Cardino, the Bayan Muna leader in South Cotabato who was abducted by suspected state security forces on Wednesday, has been found alive.
MANILA — French flagship FNS Var, headed by Commander Paul Massart is paying a goodwill visit to the Philippines from…
