A Hong Kong-based legal rights organization said the Aquino administration failed "to investigate, prosecute and convict" state agents and their accomplices for violating the Anti-Torture Act of 2009, as the country is supposed to join the global observance on Thursday the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
Once in a while, she hears teachers report of students being absent for more than a week. But instead of approving their recommendation to drop absentee students, she asked teachers to check them in their homes.
Murder charges were filed Tuesday afternoon before the City Prosecutor’s Office against a police regional intelligence chief implicated by suspects in the killing of billionaire businessman Richard Lim King who was killed last June 12 in Obrero, this city.
The Department of Agriculture blamed low supply brought about by crop conversion as the main cause in the price hikes in garlic and rice. Militant farmers, however, decried low goverment subsidy and rapid importation as the culprit of the current problems in agriculture.
The Panalipdan (Defend) Southern Mindanao issued a statement urging the local officials especially Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to look “at the perils” of oil palm plantations being eyed by Malaysian and Thailand companies in Paquibato District.