Topic: Philippines
First the terror and then the backlash
August 14, 2013 ·
August 9, 2013 Sangkala Satol, a 51-year old Muslim carpenter, was in the wrong place at the wrong time on Monday afternoon. He was outside a store in the southern city of Cotabato, waiting for his wife who was buying a pack of milk for his 10-month old son. Earlier, the couple was seen together […]
Read More...Human Rights Watch urges Aquino to take action on journalist killings
August 14, 2013 ·
August 13, 2013 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged President Benigno Aquino to speak out against the recent killings of three journalists and ensure authorities expedite investigations into their murders. “While the killers and motives [of the killings] are unknown, these and past unresolved attacks on journalists have a chilling effect on media freedom in […]
Read More...Street Children Locked Up
August 12, 2013 ·
Fr. John Keenan | November 1, 2012 To compound the trauma, the children are herded into sub-human conditions, small children along with big teenagers in an atmosphere of fear and trepidation. Such crammed conditions can spawn all kinds of abuse, introduction to vice and fights among the children. They are only allowed out for half […]
Read More...PRESIDENT AQUINO SUPPORTS THE SUBIC COAL FIRED POWER PLANT
August 7, 2013 ·
MANILA, Philippines – The country will experience tightness in power supply if the 600-megawatt coal-fired plant of RP Energy does not come in by 2015 or early 2016, Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla said yesterday. I am counting on RP Energy to come in 2015 or early 2016. Otherwise, supply at that time will be […]
Read More...AMERICAN (54) SUSPECTED PAEDOPHILE ARRESTED IN ANGELES CITY.
August 5, 2013 ·
The police operatives from the Angeles City Police Office (ACPO) headed by PSSUPT Eden T. Ugale, who is a member of PMA Class ’90, arrested on July 30, 2013 an American national, 54 years old, and residing in Balibago, Angeles City, for statutory rape and violation of R.A. 7610 or An Act Providing for Stronger […]
Read More...Greenpeace ship sails into polluted Manila Bay
July 24, 2013 ·
http://www.ucanews.com/, July 24, 2013 The Greenpeace ship Esperanza docked in Manila Bay on Tuesday, the last stop on a nationwide tour aimed at raising awareness of pollution in the archipelago nation following disturbing recent scientific research indicating high levels of waste poured into the sea. The ex-Russian navy firefighting ship turned activist vessel arrived amid […]
Read More...Philippines' RH Law stalled again by Supreme Court
July 17, 2013 ·
July 17, 2013 Philippines’ RH Law stalled again by Supreme Court thumbnail The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended an earlier order stopping the implementation of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) Law. A narrow vote of 8-7 ordered the status quo ante (‘the way things were before’) order to be extended until further notice, effective immediately. […]
Read More...P20-billion tourism project set in Subic
June 19, 2013 ·
POSTED BY Anthony BayarongPOSTED ON MONDAY, JUNE 17TH, 2013 SUBIC BAY Freeport: The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) reported Monday that it had sign a contract with a Korean company for the development of a P20billion world class tourism complex. In a simple ceremony held June 13 at the Freeport, SBMA Chairman and Administrator Roberto Garcia and Resom Chairman […]
Read More...New book alleges indiscretions in the Philippine Church
June 13, 2013 ·
June 11, 2013 Author Aries Rufo at the book launch A book launched on Friday is set to send shockwaves through the Philippines Church, with serious allegations about the behavior of bishops and clergy. “Altar of Secrets: Sex, Politics, and Money in the Philippine Catholic Church,” describes an institution cloaked in secrecy. It claims that […]
Read More...Philippine bishops accused of abuse cover-up
June 10, 2013 ·
June 4, 2013Catholic bishops in the Philippines are covering up “rampant sexual abuse of children by the clergy,” said a missionary priest who has been working with prostituted children for the past four decades. “We have these bishops who have been covering up so much of this abuse, and we know that it is still […]
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