www.bworldonline.com, March 14, 2023 LUIS V. TEODORO, a veteran journalist who championed press freedom in the Philippines, has died. He was 81. Mr. Teodoro died of a heart attack shortly before midnight on Monday, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), where he was a Board of Trustee member, posted on its website. “As educator,…
Kristine Joy Patag – Philstar.com March 13, 2023 MANILA, Philippines (Updated 6:32 p.m.) — A Navotas court has found former policeman Jeffrey Perez guilty of killing teenagers Carl Angelo Arnaiz and Reynaldo “Kulot” De Guzman whose deaths in 2017 raised doubts about the Duterte administration’s bloody “war on drugs.” The Navotas Regional Trial Court Branch 287 found…
Mar 11, 2023 Lance Spencer Yu ‘Ang SMNI at red-tagging ang dapat i-phaseout, hindi jeepney,’ says transport group Piston MANILA, Philippines – Piston strongly condemned Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) over red-tagging comments by its presenters, who said leaders of transport and teachers’ groups that supported the recent jeepney strike should be labeled as terrorists…
Rebecca Ratcliffe, South-east Asia correspondent, The Guardian, Sun 26 Feb 2023 Crusading pathologist Raquel Fortun finds evidence of multiple murder at the direction of ‘a madman’ in the exhumed remains of young Filipinos it was in an old university stockroom, with wooden tables salvaged from a junkyard, that Raquel Fortun began to investigate the merciless…
JIM GOMEZ Fri, February 24, 2023, AP MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines’ chances of retaining special trading incentives, including slashed tariffs for a wide array of products, would be boosted if it decides to free a long-detained opposition leader and rejoin the International Criminal Court, a group of European parliamentarians said Friday. The European…
Kristine Joy Patag – Philstar.com February 23, 2023 MANILA, Philippines — Making books for children means helping shape the individuals that they will become. In the Philippines, which has often been described as forgetful, storytellers for children have the task of making sure a pivotal moment in our history — the EDSA People Power Revolution that ousted a dictator…
Jap Tobias – Philstar.com February 24, 2023 MANILA, Philippines — They were young, idealistic students in various schools and universities in Northern Luzon back then who spent their time writing, organizing and joining demonstrations against Marcos Sr.’s dictatorial rule. Over three decades since the Marcos dictatorship was toppled, these activists from Ilocos, Pangasinan, Cagayan Valley…
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Feb 20, 2023 Antonio J. Montalvan II In 2001, when Gloria Macapagal Arroyo took office as president, hundreds of human rights activists, journalists, outspoken clergy, left-wing political party members, and members of critical NGOs have been killed or forcibly disappeared, yet only six cases have been prosecuted. As early as the initial years of the Arroyo…