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 Peoples 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…
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TAGUM CITY — Vegetable farmers in southern Mindanao should organize themselves and utilize the cluster farming approach as a strategy…
COTABATO CITY — Officials from the Thailand Ministry of Education and Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA) recently visited Davao…
