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Archive for September, 2008

    US Financial Crisis: The Philippines’s Economic Debacle

    Analysis |  Having produced only disastrous results, economic management can no longer be left in the hands of an elite corps of bureaucrats and technocrats who ape models purposely to make corporate profits bigger at the expense of workers, farmers, and other marginal sectors.

    9/29/08 03:41 PM   Full Story
    ‘Woman Power’ Urged vs Critics of Repro Health Bill

    AKBAYAN Rep. Risa Hontiveros called for the use of ‘women power’ to counter the efforts by anti-RH legislators to stall plenary debates on the controversial bill by questioning the quorum, urging all fifty-two female members of the House of Representatives to be always present and active during session hours.
    She said that the 14th Congress is [...]

    9/29/08 03:37 PM   Full Story
    Philippine Military Told: Justify P10-B Additional Budget

    Senator Pimentel said they will thoroughly look into the proposal submitted by Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro, Jr. for an additional Pl0 billion for the AFP budget for 2009, which amounts to a l7.7 percent increase in the P56.5 billion already earmarked for the military under the national budget submitted by Malacanang to Congress.

    9/29/08 03:32 PM   Full Story
    Loren: Could BSP Have Averted or Eased Philippine Bank Losses Due to Lehman?

    MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Could a more watchful Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) have averted, or lessened the massive financial losses incurred by Philippine banks due to the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.?
    Sen. Loren Legarda raised this question shortly after US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said US regulators allowed Lehman to [...]

    9/29/08 03:30 PM   Full Story
    Concerted Effort Needed to Check Entry of Banned Products — Loren

    MANILA, Philippines — Senator Loren Legarda yesterday called on the public and the private sectors to join hands to ensure the safety of the citizenry from the health risk posed by the banned milk and milk products from China.
    The Chair of the Senate Committee on Economic Affairs also expressed alarm over the considerable effects of [...]

    9/29/08 03:28 PM   Full Story
    Bayan to Arroyo: Give Categorical Statement Vs Term Extension

    The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today challenged President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to put in writing that she would not seek to extend her term beyond 2010. The challenge came after a United States think-tank revealed a study that charter change to extend the president’s term remains an option of the administration.

    9/29/08 03:27 PM   Full Story
    Philippines Chamber Supports Ban on China Milk and Dairy

    The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) expressed its support of the government following the ban on imported China milk products imposed by the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD).

    9/29/08 03:25 PM   Full Story
    CHR Wants 112% Increase in Budget

    Barely four months in Office but with what she termed as modest accomplishments and Herculean tasks ahead, Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Chairperson Leila M. De Lima is very convinced that there is a `must’ to increase the independent constitutional body’s 2009 budget [...]

    9/29/08 03:22 PM   Full Story
    Filipinos to Senate: Pass the Renewable Energy Bill Now!

    Greenpeace delivers giant card to legislators
    Manila, 29 September 2008–Greenpeace activists today delivered a giant
    card containing the message “Pass the Renewable Energy Bill Now!” to the
    Philippine Senate. The 45 square foot card, addressed to the Senate
    from the Filipino people, was sent by Greenpeace to demand immediate
    action from the Upper House to pass the Renewable Energy [...]

    9/29/08 03:21 PM   Full Story
    Army recognizes its top 10 skilled civilian-workers

    FORT Andres Bonifacio, Metro Manila – The Philippine Army is one with various government agencies in the celebration of the Philippine Civil Service Commission’s 108th year this month as it recognized its top 10 skilled workers as well as its employees who have served the Army for 30 to 45 years, in today’s flag raising [...]

    9/29/08 03:19 PM   Full Story
    Comrade Richard: Revolutionary Educator and Cultural Worker, Red Fighter and Communist

    Southern Mindanao Regional Party Committee
    Communist Party of the Philippines
    29 September 2008
    Comrade Richard: Revolutionary Educator and Cultural Worker, Red Fighter and Communist
    On behalf of the entire revolutionary movement, the New People’s Army, and the Filipino masses, the Southern Mindanao Regional Party Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines renders its highest salutation to comrade Richard–true [...]

    9/29/08 03:17 PM   Full Story
    Tribute To Val, Communist

    National Democratic Front of the Philippines
    Southern Mindanao
    28 September 2008
    TRIBUTE TO VAL
    gay comrades never die
    they live in our minds forever
    they are the silver lining
    of our difficult protracted war
    they make us laugh and sing
    while serving the people
    wholeheartedly
    their joy gives us courage and
    our hearts are filled to the brim
    ready to fight and win
    The masses, comrades and allies of [...]

    9/29/08 03:16 PM   Full Story
    Filipino Youths to Courts: Resist Big Tobacco’s Interference

    The youth’s response made to the Court of Appeals is one of many actions taking place in more than 25 countries around the world this week that challenges interference by tobacco giants in implementation of the global tobacco treaty, formally known as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).

    9/29/08 03:15 PM   Full Story
    A Reminder of Subservience and Mendicancy: Nothing “Mutual” About RP-US Mutual Defense Treaty

    By Renato Reyes Jr.  |  Over the past 50 years, the MDT has benefitted the US primarily. The MDT has allowed the US to make the Philippines its neo-colonial outpost in South East Asia, having used the country during the US wars of aggression in Korea and Vietnam. The MDT made possible the existence then of US military bases and the existence now of the Visiting Forces Agreement and the Mutual Logistics Support Agreement.

    9/27/08 03:01 PM   Full Story
    Arroyo Urged to Lobby for Return of Balangiga Bells Taken by US

    Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. (PDP-Laban) today urged the Arroyo government to pursue the efforts for the return of the Balangiga Bells that were carted away by American troops during their occupation of Samar 107 years ago.
    Pimentel lamented that the recovery of the historic Balangiga bells has not materialized despite persistent lobbying by [...]

    9/27/08 02:59 PM   Full Story

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