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Read more about the article AFP refusal to ceasefire endanger lives of police captives, says third party group
The wives of the four police officers taken as prisoner of war by the New Peoples Army (NPA). (photo from Facebook of Bp. Rhee Timbang, used with permission)

AFP refusal to ceasefire endanger lives of police captives, says third party group

An intermediary group in the bid to have the police captives in the Caraga region released from their guerrilla captors warned that the “reluctance” of the government crisis committee to agree to temporary and limited ceasefire has endangered the process.

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Read more about the article Teachers to wear black armbands vs. corruption, low pay

Teachers to wear black armbands vs. corruption, low pay

Teachers across the country mounted a protest action today dubbed as “Black armband Friday” to demand increase in their salary and to condemn President Benigno Aquino III’s "arrogant defense" of his controversial use of government savings called Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP).

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Read more about the article IP group scores Aquino for rising deaths, displacements of indigents

IP group scores Aquino for rising deaths, displacements of indigents

An organization of tribal communities on Wednesday scored on the Aquino administration over “the escalating deaths and displacements of Lumads in the country because of large-scale mining projects, and of the implementation of counter insurgency program Oplan Bayanihan”.

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