MANILA — The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan ( Bayan ) today picketed the Australian Embassy in Makati. The group was protesting…
DAVAO CITY — This city will continue to be a haven for new investments especially in the field of tourism-related…
By Rose Palacio City Health Officer Dr. Josephine Villafuerte said the city government, as instructed by Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte,…
DAVAO CITY — Big ticket investments that were firmed up during the Davao membership meeting of the Cold Chain Association…
By Rose Palacio President Arroyo ordered government agencies to pool and intensify their efforts and seek the cooperation of the…
We join all opposition groups and election watchdogs in condemning the massive electoral fraud orchestrated to benefit the administration slate. We must not allow the administration to succeed in its final push to rig the elections through the canvassing of votes in Maguindanao and other questionable regions, Renato Reyes of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan said.
MANILA, Philippines — Election watchdog Kontra Daya warned against rigging of votes from Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in…
According to Kabataan partylist, CHED granted the tuition increase even before consultations in schools for such an increase has yet to be completed. It said the hike came after a meeting between President Arroyo and COCOPEA, the organization of private schools. The CHED’s “unilateral and shameless act shows the commission’s subservience and capitulation to strong pressure from school owners even at the expense of students.”
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has criticised comments from Sri Lanka opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe which argued that Sri…
Argel Kiawan, 14 and an incoming second-year high-school student, does some spade work outside the Magallanes Elementary School, which pays him 100 pesos a day. Kiawan says his family is poor so he needs to find work for his lunch money and daily school allowance. That a minor like him was hired by a public school to do manual labor likewise underscores the problem of child labor in Davao City and the flagrant violation even by government officials of the country’s child-labor laws.
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