2011 national budget favors GMA
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The progressive partylist Bayan Muna dismayed over the approval of 2011 national budget that only favors former President and congresswoman Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. “I did not expect…
Facts about Bulusan Volcano
BULUSAN VOLCANO HAZARD MAPS BULUSAN VOCANO MONITORING NETWORK BULUSAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY Mount Bulusan’s full eruption can possibly affect the towns of Juban, Irosin, Casiguran, Gubat, Barcelona and Busulan covering around…
Group challenges gov’t to dennounce Seoul’s deportation of Filipinos
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Independent think-tank IBON Foundation expressed disappointment over the lack of action of the Philippine government after the Seoul government blacklisted and deported eight members of Filipino civil…
Protests, police blockade mark 9th month in detention of Morong43
By Renato Reyes, Jr. Supporters and relatives of the Morong 43 today held a caravan to Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan to visit the detained health workers and call for…
Bulusan volcano explodes ashes; magnitude 5 quake jolted Sorsogon
IROSIN, SORSOGON – Mt. Bulusan surprised anew its nearby residents by the sudden explosion of ashes from its crater at around 8:11am this morning, Nov. 6. Abner Hipe, Philvocs Sorsogon…
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs): Temporary, Diversionary and Indefensible
The retrogressive character of the CCTs is most of all defined by its defense of neoliberal macroeconomic policies. The larger ‘social protection’ budget is going to be used to mitigate…
Aquino’s arrogance in resuming peacetalks, a stumbling block to release of political detainees – SELDA
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Former political prisoners today criticized Pres. Benigno Aquino III’s refusal to meet with representatives of negotiating panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) as…
TV reporter threatened during Marawi polls coverage
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – ABS-CBN TV reporter Trini Velasco received a death threat via text message during the network’s coverage of the recently concluded barangay (village) and Sangguniang Kabataan (youth council)…
