A rift between China and the Philippines deepened Saturday, with protests and rallies planned for the weekend to demand an investigation into the hostage standoff in Manila that left eight tourists from Hong Kong dead.
Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing and opposition groups will jointly hold the march on Sunday to express anger and grief at the Philippine government’s handling of the crisis, in which eight Hong Kong tourists were slain. (AFP photo)
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Kabataan Representative Raymond Palatino criticized at Rep. Eduardo Gullas’s proposal to restore the mandatory Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and abolish the National Service Training Program (NSTP) in colleges and universities
According to current World Bank estimates, more than 1.4 billion people live in extreme poverty. The recent food, economic and financial crises will push an additional 64 million people into extreme poverty by the end of this year.
I am Chandu Claver. My family was the target of an ambush by suspected State agents nearly four years today on July 31, 2006 in the province of Kalinga. My wife Alice was killed, as a result. Because of continuing threats on what remained of my family, I was forced to seek political refuge in Canada.
An alliance of Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East called on President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III to immediately revoke a memorandum requiring overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) compulsory membership to PAG-IBIG.
By Rep. Teddy Casiño
Bayan Muna
Below is the privilege speech Rep. Casiño delivered before the House of Representatives on Aug. 2, 2010
Ginoong Speaker, mga kagalang-galang na kasama sa Kongreso.
At the opening session of …
Written by Bonifacio Ilagan, Sigwa is the story of six young lives caught in the tempest of the First Quarter Storm during the 1970s.
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and applicants have been complaining of the rise in the cost of passport fees following the issuance of the new e-passports by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to comply with international standards.
