Half of all Filipino women live below poverty line, according to a study conducted by the Center for Women’s Resources.
A non-government organization said they received reports that at least 40 people were killed during the mining tragedy in Barangay Mt. Diwata, Monkayo town Compostela Valley on Sunday, February 28.
The conference challenged the presidential candidates in the 2016 elections to listen to the demands mining-affected communities and other concerned sectors in Mindanao.
Several kins of Filipino workers killed in a hotel fire in Iraq refused to sign documents sent by the victims’ employer as they doubt that by doing so would mean an unresolved closure.
Two unidentified motorcycle-riding men gunned down a town police chief of Compostela Valley on Wednesday morning, March 2, at Sobrecarey corner Mabini Streets in this city, police said.
This was how a youth group on Wednesday, March 2 described a textbook that contains “misinformation” about the Martial Law period under the regime of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, urging authorities to probe and recall the erroneous academic material.
Calls for a thorough investigation into the fire incident inside a property owned by a Protestant church here in February are mounting.
A legal expert criticized Atty. Romeo “Mac” Macalintal for his wrong analysis on the “Roque” doctrine, a Supreme Court decision which mandates the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to issue a voter’s receipt.
Davao City will soon have its own laboratory specialized in detecting non-halal content in consumer products, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in this region said.
An alliance of indigenous peoples in the country urged candidates for the upcoming national elections to consider the abolition of Philippine Mining Act of 1995, replacing it with a regulation tailored to benefit indigenous communities where many of the country’s minerals are extracted.
