Drought is again sweeping the farmlands in North Cotabato and devastating the lives of the same farmers who were once dispersed violently by those in power.
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Jun 7, 2021, Raizza Bello MANILA, Philippines People ‘have to eventually confront that fear [of vaccines] and weigh the consequences of non-vaccination versus the risk of getting COVID,’ says public health practitioner and former health secretary Manuel Dayrit Almost four months into the Philippines’ mass vaccination program, the country has administered, as of May 30,…
Farmer’s group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said the so-called mis-encounter between government troops earlier this week in Sta. Rita, Samar is inevitable under President Rodrigo Duterte’s counterinsurgency program Oplan Kapayapaan. “The government’s own policy Oplan Kapayapaan and not Murphy’s Law is responsible for the mis-encounter between the 1st Platoon, 805th Company, Regional Mobile Force Battalion…
Research group IBON said that the government’s insistence on higher taxes especially on the poor is among the factors driving inflation rates to their highest in nearly a decade. The group said that runaway inflation is due to the peso depreciation and rising global oil prices combined with the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion…
On the day of the plebiscite here, two young Maguindanaons have cast their votes, one supports the inclusion of Cotabato City under the soon to be Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao or BARMM, and the other one wanted Cotabato to remain a charter city.
By Anri Ichimura, esquiremag.ph The Madrid store is now Jollibee’s biggest restaurant in Europe. Talk about Jollibee fever. Madrid-based OFWs and Spanish customers waited as early as 10 p.m. on September 22 for the opening of Jollibee’s first-ever store in Spain on September 23. The eager customers braved Madrid’s cold nighttime weather for a guaranteed…