A national fact-finding mission on the massacre of nine farmers in Negros Occidental said suspected government agents are behind the bloodbath last October 20 even as the Philippine National Police insists so-called recruiters of the victims are the suspected perpetrators. The mission said the likely killers are active members of the Special Civilian Auxiliary Army…
Sen. Panfilo Lacson (File photo by EDWIN BACASMAS / Philippine Daily Inquirer) Sen. Panfilo Lacson said on Wednesday the Senate Committee on Games and Amusement, which he chairs, would ask Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) General Ganager Alexander Balutan to shed light on his allegation that gambling consultant Charlie “Atong” Ang offered him a monthly…
May 4, 2022, Sofia Guanzon Philippine journalists have been facing intensified attacks on multiple fronts during this particular election season, says a press freedom study MANILA, Philippines – Independent media in the Philippines has been combating various forms of attacks while also fighting disinformation online, that it needs a “societal response” to the scourge of…
Jofelle P. Tesorio, ABS-CBN NewsPosted at Aug 01 2020 10:34 AM UTRECHT, The Netherlands – The chief peace negotiator of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Fidel Agcaoili was given a final tribute with kind words, nationalistic songs and a simple mass on Friday, July 31, the day of his cremation. Agcaoili passed…
Philippine Daily Inquirer / July 14, 2021 Here’s a witty online quip: “How to say internet troll without saying internet troll? Social media specialist.” Provocatively said and reflecting present trends judging by declarations of disgust from such insiders as former personnel of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) that, in their time, never had there…
OVER THREE YEARS AGO, the nation has been promised: change is coming. And change did come, but things took a turn for the worse. As the nation marks President Rodrigo Duterte’s third year in power this June 30, we look back in sheer dismay over the unprecendented attacks perpetrated primarily by the state, with the…