MANILA — Environment group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment warned against “a possible conflict of interest” in San Miguel Corporation’s (SMC) recent P1-billion partnership with the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). The green group likens it to a ‘soft payment’ to induce the government agency to fast track reclamation projects of SMC…
By Eule Rico Bonganay/Bulatlat Children who are residents of Tondo after their community was struck by fire last April. Photo by EULE RICO BONGANAY The post Pagsasalba appeared first on Bulatlat.
Kristine Joy Patag (Philstar.com) – July 3, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Peace consultant Rey Claro Casambre has been detained since 2018 for a crime that he said he did not commit. While in jail, he found himself being accused in May of being a terrorist. Casambre was first included in the 2018 Department of Justice petition…
Published January 31, 2018, 12:05 AM In the 18 months that the government carried out its campaign against illegal drugs in the country, there have been varying figures on the number of deaths. A case filed in the Supreme Court said some 4,000 drug suspects had been killed and the court has asked Solicitor General…
A Lumad alliance warned that President Rodrigo Duterte’s invitation to a paramilitary leader to join the fight against the New People’s Army has dire consequences against indigenous peoples’ communities in Davao. In a statement, the PASAKA Confederation of Lumad Organizations in Southern Mindanao Region said Mindanao Indigenous People’s Conference for Peace and Development chairperson Joel…
That former TV broadcaster who’s running for senator under Sara Duterte’s Hugpong ng Pagbabago party isn’t alone in denying that the Duterte regime is a threat to press freedom. There are other former and still practicing broadcast, print and online media people who have never quite understood that the most fundamental values in journalism are…