Authorities here may ask the airline companies to explain the unusual high fare airline companies are charging on the Manila-Davao route compared to routes with longer travel time.
Detained Senator Leila de Lima denounced the arrest and temporary detention of Davao City-based journalist Margarita Valle, and called it a “shameless act” meant to “silence messenger of truth”.
Human Rights group Karapatan and Kawagib Moro Human Rights Alliance held an indignation protest Tuesday, September 25, at the Timog Circle in Quezon City against the recent killing of a Moro human rights worker in Mindanao. Mariam Uy Acob, 43 years old and paralegal of Kawagib, was gunned down by suspected military agents last September…
Injured striking workers (Photo by PWU) “They drove us out with force. They even used water canons.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Images of bloodied striking workers of the Peerless Producers Manufacturing Corp. (Pepmaco) in Calamba, Laguna greeted netizens on Friday morning, following a violent attack against them by armed goons in…
More than a thousand newly elected officials of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) in Misamis Oriental took their oath office before Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano on Saturday as he pledged to allocate funds to help them implement their programs and projects.
By Chris Castro | www.esquiremag.ph The transfer of the Malampaya Gas Field Facility to Malampaya Energy XP Pte., a unit of Udenna Corp, presents significant security risks, and thus ought to be revoked, the Philippine Bar Association (PBA) said in a statement. The lawyers’ group urged the government to revoke to revoke the transfer…
Mission delegates in Northern Mindanao stopped in a checkpoint this morning, April 6. (Photo courtesy of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas) By RONALYN OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA — State security forces repeatedly blocked members of a fact-finding mission investigating human rights violations in Mindanao. Since their arrival at the airports in Davao City, Lagindinangan and Butuan City…