Pit Bull Fighting in Davao Denounced
ABS-CBN's TV Patrol reported tonight on the gaining popularity of pit-bull fighting in Davao City and the denunciation of the practice by animal rights activists. Popular in many parts of…
The Right to Self-determination (a Primer)
Abhoud Syed M. Lingga, executive director of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies, presents this primer about the right to self-determination. “The essence of the Bangsamoro struggle for self-determination is the realization of their right to freely determine their political status vis-?-vis the Republic of the Philippines,” he writes. Lingga’s institute is a Cotabato-based think tank on Moro politics, history and culture.
AFP Uses ‘Recyled’ Skeletons in Case vs Satur
The seven bodies found in an alleged mass grave in Inopacan, Southern Leyte, which were presented in the multiple murder case against Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo, Jose Ma.Sison, Luis Jalandoni, Vicente Ladlad, Rafael Baylosis, Randal Echanis and several others, have already been buried and used in a case somewhere else.
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Arroyo Creates More Jobs, All Right — But Most Are for Maids
MANILA — The results of the January 2007 Labor Force Survey (LFS) showed that the number of employed Filipinos increased by 1.5 million to 33.5 million from the 32 million recorded in January 2006. But according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation, the figures are deceptive as the quality of jobs created still leaves much to be desired.
IBON research head Sonny Africa pointed out that there were four times more new jobs for maids than for factory workers, highlighting the failure of the Arroyo government to create regular and productive jobs through a genuine industrialization program.
Who Is Afraid of the Naked Truth?
DAVAO CITY -- On the day that Gemma Bagauaya of Newsbreak was arrested for libel, we were made to strip inside the Davao city jail in Maa just to visit…