Two broadcasters, from opposite ends of the country, murdered in as many days. One hundred and thirty-nine media workers killed since 1986, 106 of them under this thankfully soon-to-be-gone administration. Nothing makes a stronger case for our contention that there
Reporters Without Borders urges President Gloria Arroyo and President-elect Noynoy Aquino to react firmly to the murders of two provincial radio presenters in the past two days. Two weeks before Aquino’s swearing-in, there are clearly people in positions of influence
FIGHTING DENGUE FEVER. A barangay worker fumigates a household at Barangay 9-A, Davao City after a resident was reportedly stricken with dengue fever two days earlier. Toto Lozano/AKP-Images
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/16 June) – President-elect Benigno C. Aquino III has already made known his intention to resume the peace negotiation between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The question is not only “Will
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/16 June) – At the end of their two-week-long conference in Kampala, Uganda on Friday, member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) agreed to the definition of aggression as “the planning, preparation, initiation, or execution, by a
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/16 June) — Some 3,000 pro-mining folks from the communities around the Tampakan mine site staged a picket this morning outside the residence of South Cotabato Gov. Daisy P. Avance-Fuentes to ask her not to sign the environment
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/16 June) – After securing the number 1 seat in Malaybalay’s 10-member city council in the May 10 elections, lawyer Jay Warren Pabillaran is working for more transparency in the local government. The 31-year-old first time councilor said
