An 18-month-old baby boy, who was born premature, became the youngest Filipino coronavirus (COVID-19) survivor in the UAE, the Philippines Embassy in Abu Dhabi announced on Tuesday. The post 1.5-year-old baby boy youngest Filipino in UAE to survive coronavirus appeared first on Kodao Productions.
It sends a clear message: What Duterte wants, Duterte gets. And it is clear, with this brazen move to shut down ABS-CBN, that he intends to silence the critical media and intimidate everyone else into submission. The post #NoDeadAir: Resist all assaults on freedom of the press and expression appeared first on Kodao Productions.
Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat “The NTC’s Order has preempted Congressional action in this area exclusively reserved to it by the Constitution and is an exercise of discretion that gravely upsets the constitutional architecture and design.” By EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Two groups of human rights lawyers raised constitutional issues over the National Telecommunications Commission…
Ordering the shutdown of ABS-CBN in the middle of a pandemic is a blatant attack on press freedom that dangerously infringes on the people’s right to information, human rights watchdog Karapatan warned, as the group assailed the National Telecommunications Commission’s cease-and-desist order against the broadcasting network. read more
“To define is to limit and to limit is to contain.” Here, Edel Garcellano warns against a feminism anchored on essentialism that dominates the contemporary Philippine literary canon. The supplicatory character of this inclusion lies in the very act of naming or making visible the marginal within the frame of hegemony. Garcellano refers to none…
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STATEMENT The National Telecommunications Commission’s order to shutdown broadcast network ABS-CBN is unconstitutional and an assault to the people’s right to information. The order is contrary to the recommendation of Congress to issue a provisional license for the network, while the deliberation for its franchise renewal is suspended. In this time of grave pandemic —…
Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat The shutdown of ABS-CBN is the biggest attack, so far, on the Philippine media since the pandemic. By ALYSSA MAE CLARIN Bulatlat.com MANILA– Two days after the Word Press Freedom Day, the Duterte administration shut down ABS-CBN, the largest broadcasting company in the Philippines. The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issued a…