The city’s largest media organization has expressed indignation over the red-tagging anew of four journalists who have shown their solidarity with the television network ABS-CBN on the possible cancellation of its legislative franchise.
A Mindanao-wide Black Friday protest led by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) chapters was held last Feb. 28 to show solidarity to the broadcasting network ABS-CBN which is facing a debacle on its franchise renewal which will lapse on March.
National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) chapters all over the Philippines will hold candle-lighting activities later today, Friday, February 28, to press for media freedom and the franchise renewal of embattled media network ABS-CBN.
The Philippines is on its way to ratifying an international treaty that would prohibit the shipment of hazardous wastes, including obsolete ships and electronic wastes, from developed countries to poor nations, an official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said Wednesday, February 26.
Various youth groups here have denounced the draft substitute bill in Congress which aims to create the Citizen Service Training Course (CSTC) or what they say a “facelift” of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).
Media groups on Monday, Feb. 24, welcomed Rep. Rufus Rodriguez’s proposal to amend a provision in the Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, that requires journalists to appear in court for the anti-drug cases that they cover during law enforcement operations.
Progressive groups supported the government’s move to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States (US).
A local court has ordered the arrest of top officials of Kapa-Community Ministry International (Kapa), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Wednesday (Feb. 12).
President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to expand the country’s travel ban to visitors from mainland China and its administrative regions is a “very belated response” to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, the Gabriela Women’s Party-list said.
The Davao City Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) secretary has admitted that the body has asked the authorities to intervene into the increasing number of fixers in its office’s vicinity.
