MANILA — Grateful for surviving a delicate open-heart surgery with a very low survival rate, First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo withdrew today all libel suits he had earlier filed before the courts including those against media men.
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New York, May 2, 2007?Two Asian nations?Pakistan and Thailand?are among the countries worldwide where press freedom has deteriorated the most over the last five years, a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found. Pakistan ranks No. 6 following alarming increases in the murders and abductions of journalists. Thailand comes in 10th because of the new military government?s sweeping effort to control broadcast media.
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In observance of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) Davao City Chapter will hold a Solidarity Night for Press Freedom, a gathering-cum-concert at the Kanto Bar, Matina Town Square, which will start at 7:30 in the evening.
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?Ah, patay na diay? Kanus-a? Kinsa nagpatay? (Ah, he is dead? Since when? Who killed him?)? the Davao City mayor mockingly asked a crowd in Bankerohan during a campaign rally this week.
DAVAO CITY — The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines-Davao chapter joins all journalists nationwide in expressing our outrage over the killing of Radyo ng Bayan reporter Carmelo Palacios and the attack on Delfin Mallari, radioman and Luzon correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) as the Philippine media try to survive the darkest era of the Philippine democracy.