At the height of the continuing threat on the possible outbreak of the feared African Swine Fever (ASF) on the swine industry in the country, Philippine authorities are now applying strict preventive measures, a top agriculture official in Davao region said.
The Alliance of Health Workers held a protest action in front of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute last April 26 to protest the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law. The protesters revealed that the so-called tax reform law has increased health care expenses for Filipinos and must be scrapped as anti-health and…
“This trial is a revival of the martial law years. It’s sickening.” It has been nearly ten years since the late Senator Joker Arroyo uttered these words when he took the witness stand on February 27, 2009 at the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 32 in defense of Vicente Ladlad, one of the respondents in…
The shutdown of ABS-CBN, the country’s largest media network, is the latest in a series of attacks and threats against the Philippine press. The post STATE OF PHILIPPINE MEDIA 2020: Journalists Struggle to Cover the Pandemic as Space for Media Freedom Shrinks appeared first on Kodao Productions.
By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA Kodao’s website Kodao.org is currently suffering from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack amid its 2019 midterm elections coverage. DDoS monitoring website DDoSMon reported that Kodao experienced 11 attacks since 10:58 Sunday night. The other attacks happened at 11.23 and 11:56 Sunday evening, and 12:49, 7:40, 7:56, 9:07, 9:24, 9:47, and…
“Pieces of gold, the size of walnuts and eggs, are found by sifting the earth in the island of that king who came to our ships,” chronicled the explorer, Antonio Pigafetta, about Raja Siagu upon the Spaniards’ arrival in Butuan during the Magellan expedition. “All the dishes of that king are of gold and also…