CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, PHILIPPINES ‘It’s now the right time for him to retire, focus on his Senate job, and intensify his anti-corruption campaign’ Aug 22, 2021, Lynde Salgados It’s time for Manny Pacquiao to hang up the gloves, but prepare for his next fight – as an anti-corruption crusader, that is, sportsmen and boxing pundits…
Apr 14, 2021 Ralf Rivas MANILA, Philippines Eight business groups quote former Chinese statesman Deng Xiaoping, who urged the world over 4 decades ago to overthrow Beijing should it turn into a tyrant Filipino business leaders urged China to respect the Philippines’ sovereignty and refrain from becoming an “imperial power.” In a strongly worded joint…
Authorities have urged the people of this province to go out and vote whether six of Lanao del Norte’s towns will be included in the new Bangsamoro region despite the explosions that occurred in three towns Monday, the eve of the Feb. 6 plebiscite.
Human rights watchdog Karapatan sounded alarm over the “increasingly worsening attacks on human rights activists and environmental defenders” amid the looming passage of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 as the rights group decried the military’s red-tagging of Josephine Parra-Porquia, wife of slain human rights activist Jose Reynaldo “Jory” Porquia, as well as the arrest of…
Mario Alvaro Limos, esquiremag.ph The Philippines is now among the largest recipients of U.S. military assistance. The Philippines will now have more eyes in the skies to guard the West Philippine Sea as its oldest military ally completed the delivery of four ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) worth P200 million to the Philippine Air Force…
Today, March 8, 2018, as the world commemorates International Women’s Day, Karapatan and Tanggol Bayi joins Filipino women in marching and standing up against State repression and all forms of human rights violations and gender-based violence. read more