Today’s News to Go

The House Committee on Labor and Employment discussed a bill pushing for the regularization of contractual workers in a hearing Wednesday.

Peace advocates came together in a press conference today to call on the government to indemnify civilian victims and casualties during the Mamasapano encounter.

Tambayan Center for Children’s Rights, Inc., a non-government organization (NGO), is culminating its one-year project that had students undergo a series of workshop under Respect Education Program (REP), an anti-bullying program.

Various groups are targeting to gather one million signatures of MRT and LRT commuters which it will present before the Supreme Court, the Department of Transportation and Communications, and other government agencies for a rollback in fares and a stop to the train systems’ privatization.

In an operation carried out by the group last November 9, 2014 to February 2, 2015 in 50 cities nationwide, it found out 316 samples of 355 skin whitening products