By Fr. Shay Cullen
A group of German visitors went with the staff of Preda Foundation last 5 and 6 of May, 2008 to visit the children at the Reception and Action Center (RAC) and the Manila Youth Reception Center (MYRC) to bring snacks and drinks and see the condition of the children detained as prisoners. [...]

Analysis | Without the IMT, or even if it is still there but with reduced personnel, the risks of increased violent encounters between GRP and MILF forces will be high. Past experiences also shows the possibility of another major war to happen is something that cannot be dismissed.

By Bonnie S. Glaser
Of the combinations of outcomes of the Taiwan election – a DPP or KMT victory, the passage or defeat of one or both of the referenda – the March 22 result in which Ma Ying-jeou won by a substantial margin and both referenda failed was the result that Beijing hoped for. The [...]

By Fr. Shay Cullen

Josef Fritzl, 73, imprisoned his own daughter and abused her as a sex slave for 24 years and she gave birth in the cellar dungeon to 7 children fathered by him. One died and he incinerated it in a furnace. This is a shocking wake up call for many Europeans and especially [...]

By JOEL SIMON and SHEILA CORONEL | Committee to Protect Journalists | The nearly perfect record of impunity in the Philippines has had a devastating impact on the free flow of information and has inhibited coverage of human rights and corruption issues in the communities affected by violence.

One only needs to look at government data to see the basis for a substantial wage hike, and one only needs to do simple mathematical computations to prove the anti-poor character of the proposed 10-percent wage hike for government employees.

BY DANILO ARAÑA ARAO
Unlike in the past, the Macapagal-Arroyo administration and a segment of the business [...]

The Arroyo government is again playing with words, as if it would make the rice crisis (which has now reached the level of a food crisis) go away. It claims there is no rice crisis but admits to a rice price crisis. There may be no real shortage yet but sharp increases in the price [...]

A curious thing is happening over at Brian Gorrell’s. Gorrell, as you should know by now, put up his wildly popular blog to collect money that he claims the “social climber” DJ Montano stole from him. For weeks since he put it up last month, Gorrell posted exposés after exposés on Montano, the so-called Gucci [...]

LOS ANGELES - Sharon Sarmiento knew it was time to unplug when she realized she was blogging in her dreams and hearing imaginary instant messages.
For Ariel Meadow Stallings, it was the hours lost while surfing the Internet that left her feeling like she had been in a drunken blackout.
Both women are part of a new [...]

The JPEPA can be best described in three words: unequal, defeatist and destructive. Recent government propaganda, however, has been trying to depict the JPEPA as an indispensable agreement– even as the country is currently reeling from a food crisis brought about by the same neoliberal framework that JPEPA was designed from.

By Fr. Shay Cullen

There was no comfort in the Philippine report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week for 14 year old Felix Avila, emaciated, half-staved, brutalized, shocked and dazed as he was helped walk from behind the bars of a police detention center in Metro Manila. Like a skeletal survivor of [...]

PinoyPress Blog: If the Sottos don’t remove their name from the hospital, I will declare that the act of sodomizing somebody with a foreign object should be called “sotto,” as in “He sottoed me last night.”

A visit to the Fort in Taguig would not be complete without these delectable cupcakes available at Cupcakes by Sonja, a small store at the Serenda. A bit pricey, to be sure, but definitely worth it. (PinoyPress photo)
(PinoyPress photo)

1) Were you and Brian Gorrell lovers (as opposed to “friends”)?
2) You said the money Brian sent you was for the “bills.” Brian said he lived on Boracay only for a few months. Even if we assume that the monthly upkeep was 100,000 pesos and let’s assume that Brian spent that amount each month for [...]

LITTLE DIVA. Charice Pempengco, the Filipino child-diva, has been wowing audiences around the world ever since she guested on the Ellen Degeneres show. Next month, she will be guesting on “Oprah” in an episode on child prodigies. (Photo courtesy of www.charicepempengco.com)

More details here .
Below is a teaser of the episode.

Luis V. Teodoro: Some people believe that the newspapers and the networks are too scared to report the Brian Gorrell case with any prominence. But it’s not a matter of being scared, but of the fact that that’s exactly where stories like this belong.

By Warina Sushil A. Jukuy

Some very young Muslim women approached me three weeks ago. They expressed their anxiety over the fact that academic policies have compelled them to take off their hijab, specifically the head veil or khimar. School authorities ordered them as nursing students to take off their head veils while they are [...]

PinoyPress Blogs: Make no mistake about it: politics is the only reason Lozada is still alive. If he’s murdered or harmed at this point, it would be a political disaster for Arroyo. And she needs that disaster like a hole in the head.