Abducted pastor, a victim?s voice
CARP’s land distribution data found dubious
"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.
Business groups oppose broadband project for entire Philippines
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?"
Philippines, Laos sign accord on protection of investments
MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Lao People?s Democratic Republic Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh witnessed today the signing of an agreement on the promotion and protection of investments to create favorable conditions for investments by nationals of both countries based on sovereign equality and mutual benefit.
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Abducted Bayan Muna leader alive, tortured
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.
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