Bella Perez-Rubio (Philstar.com) – June 11, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Advocates for National Interest (ANI), a group composed of retired police and military officers, on Friday called on Filipinos to “unite and rally to our flag in assertion of our rights in the West Philippine Sea.” Retired Gen. Eliseo Rio, also a former information communications and…
INQUIRER.net / 12:15 PM June 07, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The dwindling power supply and the possible increase in power rates, compounded by the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic could spell a “triple whammy” to disadvantaged Filipinos, Senator Grace Poe said Monday. “The looming power rate increase coupled with the rotational brownouts in the…
May 31, 2021, Aika Rey Plant outages amid high temperatures prompted the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to place the Luzon grid under red alert on Monday, May 31 – the first time it has done so since June 2019. A red alert means there is insufficient power supply in the grid. The…
Neil Jayson Servallos, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, Saturday, May 29, 2021, OneNews.ph Online sexual exploitation of children surged during the pandemic, when many Filipinos lost their jobs. More than 1.29 million images and videos of child abuse materials produced in the country in 2020 – triple the number reported in 2019. The coronavirus pandemic…
Jonathan de Santos (Philstar.com) – May 13, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Anti-Terrorism Council has designated 19 supposed members of the communist party’s Central Committee as terrorists, a move that will allow the Anti-Money Laundering Council to look into and freeze assets believed to be used to fund terrorism. The lists of designated persons were…
Otto de Vries, a Catholic lay missionary from the Diocese of Rotterdam, who has done pastoral work among the workers and urban poor in the Philippines for three decades, has returned to the Netherlands after being red-tagged and his permanent visa revoked by the Duterte government. The Philippine Bureau of Immigration (BI) in February canceled…
May 3, 2021, Hannah Dayan Manila, Philippines If the Philippines has community pantries, other countries have soup kitchens and food banks that have fed people during the COVID-19 crisis People from all over the world have done what they can to address the ongoing pandemic. Some have doubled their efforts in feeding the poor through…
(12 April 2021) Former US Attorney General William Ramsey Clark was a champion of human rights, a staunch defender of the people’s right to national and social liberation, a fierce advocate of just peace and a resolute opponent to the imperialist policies and wars of aggression of the US. Thus emphasized Prof. Jose Ma. Sison,…