January, 2018
German nahuli sa Leyte cybersex den raid
January 18, 2018 · By www.gmanetwork.com
Nasakote ang isang German sa Leyte sa isang raid na isinagawa ng mga awtoridad sa pinaghinalaang cybersex den. Sa ulat ng “Unang Balita” nitong Huwebes ng umaga, isinagawa ang raid sa Baybay City at naaktuhan ang operator ng umano’y cybersex den na kinilalang sin Leef Roth, isang German. Susuriin pa ng mga pulis ang laman […]
Read More...Journalists risk death for the truth
January 18, 2018 ·
Journalists risk death for the truth Fr. Shay Cullen 18 January 2018 Journalists, writers, reporters, commentators will just have to curb their passion for speaking and exposing the truth if they want to continue to live. Too many end up a corpse in a cold dark morgue, silence their only companion. That is just the […]
Read More...How Oxfam became the rising star of UK’s online fashion industry
January 18, 2018 · By Helen Pidd and Zoe Wood for www.theguardian.com
Trade director hopes to double size of web operation after it reported 33% sales growth over Christmas It’s one of fashion’s best kept secrets, a website where you can buy luxury brands such as Burberry, Prada and Miu Miu as well as the best of the high street for a steal. Sales were up 33% […]
Read More...Let’s wrench power back from the billionaires
January 18, 2018 · By Bernie Sanders for www.theguardian.com
If we stand together against powerful special interests we can eliminate poverty, increase life expectancy and tackle climate change Here is where we are as a planet in 2018: after all of the wars, revolutions and international summits of the past 100 years, we live in a world where a tiny handful of incredibly wealthy […]
Read More...Who should draft new charter? Not Congress, Villegas says
January 18, 2018 · By Paterno Esmaquel II for www.rappler.com
Archbishop Socrates Villegas also slams proposals to extend the terms of government leaders as the Philippines shifts to a federal form of government MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos “free of vested interests,” not Congress, should draft the new law of the land. This was the moral position set by one of the Philippines’ most influential bishops, […]
Read More...600 nurses from Philippines to be recruited in bid to fill Northern Ireland gap
January 17, 2018 · By www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
More than 600 nurses are to be recruited from the Philippines in an attempt to plug Northern Ireland’s chronic nursing shortage. The region’s health service is running on a shortage of 1,500 nurses – 10% below capacity – with health chiefs warning of a difficult year ahead. A lack of qualified nurses across the EU […]
Read More...Duterte won’t act on comfort woman statue
January 17, 2018 · By Pia Ranada for www.rappler.com
Malacañang says it does not regard the controversial statue as a ‘diplomatic issue’ and expresses confidence that bilateral ties between the Philippines and Japan will ‘become even stronger’ despite it MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang said on Thursday, January 11, that President Rodrigo Duterte will not do anything about the controversial comfort woman statue erected in […]
Read More...A year of living dangerously the Philippines
January 16, 2018 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
The past 12 months has been a deadly one for the Filipino poor with tragedy striking from many quarters For many of the poorest Filipinos, especially in densely populated Manila, 2017 was a year of death and mourning as assassins went on the rampage, hunting suspected drug users and dealers. The government itself admitted that […]
Read More...Court deals blow to Filipino woman on death row
January 16, 2018 · By Joe Torres, Manila Philippines for www.ucanews.com
Manila court bars drug convict Mary Jane Veloso giving testimony against alleged recruiters outside Philippines A court in Manila has ruled that a Filipino woman on Indonesia’s death row cannot give testimony against her alleged recruiters outside a court in the Philippines. The ruling, handed down last month but only released to the media last […]
Read More...Fury over Myanmar military’s Rohingya mass killing
January 16, 2018 · By Stephan Uttom and Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka Bangladesh for www.ucanews.com
Admission of atrocity sparks call for a full inquiry and for senior officers to be brought to justice The Myanmar military’s admission of a mass killing of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State has sparked fury and demands for a proper probe and justice from refugees, rights activists and Church officials in Bangladesh. On Jan. 10, […]
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