DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 14 Feb) – Valentine’s Day is a “love yourself day,” an official of Davao City Aids Council (DCAC) told the people on Thursday, reminding them to stay faithful to their par tners and always get themselves
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 14 Feb) – Different regional agencies signed on Thursday a memorandum of understanding for the construction of a 68-hectare regional government center of the Davao Region to rise in a government-owned property in Bago Oshiro, Tugbok,
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 14 Feb) – The provincial government of South Cotabato is set to expand its vaccination activities against rabies for pet animals, especially dogs, as it moves to eradicate the disease in the area in three
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 14 Feb) – The city government has allotted P20 million for the construction this year of a modern large-scale waste composting facility. Augustus Bretana, head of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO), said Thursday
Of the many virtues guarded by democratic nations, justice and protection against libelous speech may well be the most difficult to attain. Apart from the unfortunate reality that necessary legal machinery may be inaccessible to many, technology and modernity have so drastically changed the information highway such that information-sharing has become virtually and instantaneously boundless – both global in reach and perpetual in duration.
As a human rights lawyer, as a Filipino, I condemn the Duterte administration’s arrest of Rappler Chief Executive Officer Maria Ressa.
On Wednesday, Philippine National Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Maria Ressa, the founding editor of news website Rappler, in the latest assault on media freedom by the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. The arrest follows a libel case filed against Ressa under the cybercrimes law for a story the website published in 2012.
The Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines condemns the arrest of Maria Ressa and stands with her and Rappler in this latest legal stratagem that threatens the freedom of the press all of us have fought for and will always defend.
