Sa unang dalawang taon ni Pangulong Benigno Aquino III, nananatiling madilim ang kinabukasan ng mga migranteng Pilipino. Araw-araw, mahigit kumulang 4000 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) ang lumalabas ng bansa upang makipagsapalaran at maghangad ng mabuting buhay para sa kanilang mga pamilya. Ang sunod-sunod na pagtaas ng presyo ng langis, bilihin, kasabay ng kawalan ng trabaho […]
The rules of court and criminal procedure on evidence, whether liberally or strictly construed, has no place in an impeachment proceeding full stop, no ifs or buts. What is supposed to be suppletory, has become the main rule, to the detriment of the peoples’ search for truth.
Tugon namin ito sa kaaapruba pa lamang na National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) kung saan pinangalanang pinakaberdeng pangulo (“greenest president”) ng Pilipinas si Pang. Noynoy Aquino. Kalokohang gawaran ng ganitong titulo si Aquino sa pagpasa niya ng NCCAP, dahil kosmetiko lamang ito at walang resolusyon sa mga isyu sa polisiya sa Republic Act 9729 o Climate Change Act of 2009.
Ang naganap na demolisyon sa sitio San Rafael, Old Balara noong ika-31 ng Agosto 2011, ay maituturing na isang bangungot para sa mga maralitang naapektuhan.
Sagot ni UP President Alfredo Pascual sa artikulo ng Pinoy Weekly Online na pinamagatang "Bagong taas-matrikula sa UP?"
Misleading and false information regarding nuclear radiation and the dangers of exposure, particularly to lower levels associated with long-term adverse effects, continue to dominate whatever news is available to the people. Lives are at stake and this nuclear disaster is not something to trivialize. People, collectively and individually, should seriously begin to take steps to protect themselves from the nuclear radiation fallout and the inevitable contamination of our environment and our bodies.
Statement of Dr. Romeo Quijano, president of Pesticide Action Network Philippines and one of the country's leading toxicologists, on nuclear radiation.
Government officials and the mainstream media repeatedly claim that there is no possibility that the nuclear radiation from Japan will reach the Philippines and that the radiation leak is minimal and pose no significant health risks. This is gross misrepresentation of facts.
The heavy damage to life and property caused by the twin disasters that hit Japan yesterday, March 11, 2011, was more than unimaginable. Migrante-Japan joins the people of Japan and the rest of the world in praying for the victims and their loved ones so they may find a way to cope with this monstrous wrath of nature.
Mining liberalization under the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 and the Mining Revitalization Program plainly promotes and implements destructive irresponsible mining.
