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Digos Radioman?s Murder: Curiouser and Curiouser

Armando PaceTwo months after the fatal shooting of Armando Pace, a hard-hitting radio commentator in Digos City, the case remains in limbo.

By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com

DIGOS CITY ? He was called the ?Jun Pala? of Digos, a fire-breathing broadcaster who earned another moniker, ?Rakman,? because of the sheer firepower (rak-rak!) of his radio commentaries.

He feared nobody and never hesitated attacking anybody, even sometimes on a personal level. Armando Pace, the 55-year-old broadcaster from AM station DXDS-Radyo Ukay in this city, certainly made many enemies. And just like Pala, he was felled, on July 18, by an assassin?s bullet. He was said to be the first radioman in Digos to have been murdered.

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Neglected Japanese Descendants Sought Via Poll

The Philippine government and Japan have no record of the number of neglected Japanese descendants in the country ? many of them are in Davao — because their birth certificates show their citizenship as Filipino. Worse, some Japanese fathers refuse to recognize these children as from their blood despite the Filipino mother declaring otherwise.

By Patricia Marcelo
ofwjournalism.net

QUEZON CITY ? Some rely on just their surnames to carry them to Japan and, hopefully, a better life. A group here wants to help.

Since August, the Federation of Nikkei-Jin Kai Philippines Inc. is undertaking a poll of Shin-Nikkei-jin (Japanese descendant) in the Philippines who were abandoned by their Japanese fathers.

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Lawyers Back Davao Ordinance Vs Aerial Spraying

DAVAO CITY ? The Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panlegal (Saligan), a national law group, asserts that? there is no law that would be affected by the proposed ordinance banning aerial spraying, a fact that gives the Davao City government a wide space for local legislation.

The absence of a national law on aerial spraying has already been repeatedly stressed by officials of the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority in several instances. No less than Dr. Norito Gicana, executive director of FPA, said in a letter that ?there is no specific law, circular or administrative order on aerial spraying.?

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US-Backed Military Operations in Sulu Decried

A Moro rights group echoes fears that the unabated military operations in Sulu and in other areas of operations of the joint US-RP military will lead to human rights violations against Moro civilians.

Ren Jalaluddin Ropeta, vice-chairperson of the Moro-Christian Peoples? Alliance (MCPA), reacted to news reports on the ongoing hunt for the Abu Sayyaf Group in Sulu.

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