Topic: Philippines
PHILIPPINE DEATH SQUAD KILLS MORE CHILDREN.
April 25, 2014 ·
By WILLIAMOR A. MAGBANUA April 20, 2014 2:48pm Cotabato City KIDAPAWAN CITY -Philippines. The bodies of two minors believed to be victims of summary executions were discovered by joggers in Purok Saranay, Barangay New Rizal, Mlang, North Cotabato on Sunday morning, police said.Mlang chief of police Inspector Sunny Leoncito identified the victims as Christian […]
Read More...Un refugio para 2.000 niños filipinos víctimas de la pederastia
April 25, 2014 ·
La Vanguardia.com Jueves, 24 de abril 2014 Helen Cook Olongapo (Filipinas), 22 abr (EFE).- En lo alto de una colina, suspendida sobre la ciudad de Olongapo, en el noroeste de Filipinas, se encuentra una imponente residencia que ha sido el refugio de más de 2.000 menores víctimas de unos de los grandes males del país: […]
Read More...2 teens found tied up, killed in Cotabato
April 25, 2014 ·
By WILLIAMOR A. MAGBANUA April 20, 2014 2:48pm KIDAPAWAN CITY – The bodies of two minors believed to be victims of summary executions were discovered by joggers in Purok Saranay, Barangay New Rizal, Mlang, North Cotabato on Sunday morning, police said. Mlang chief of police Inspector Sunny Leoncito identified the victims as Christian Dave Billeza […]
Read More...Debt relief
April 23, 2014 ·
Editorial Philippine Daily Inquirer 12:12 am | Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014 Debt condonation is something a government avoids because of its repercussions on a country¹s financial and economic wellbeing. A country that expresses even the slightest hint of a request for debt condonation worries the international lending community. However, an appeal two weeks ago by […]
Read More...Curse of Cybersex: The Lost Children of Cebu
April 23, 2014 ·
By Katrin Kunt Carsten Stormer/ Zeitenspiegel/ DER SPIEGEL Cybersex is a big business in a city on the Filipino island of Cebu. To escape poverty, parents force their children to strip in front of webcams. City officials are fighting back in an attempt to prevent sexual exploitation from destroying a generation. Behind the closed door […]
Read More...Top Subic Bay officials charged with graft and corruption.
April 19, 2014 ·
Andreo Calonzo JDS, GMA News 15 April, 2014 The Office of the Ombudsman has recommended graft charges against 18 former and incumbent officials for supposedly favoring a firm in a port operation deal. In a resolution approved last week, the Ombudsman ordered the indictment of top SBMA officials, led by former chairman Feliciano Salonga, […]
Read More...Brothels operate in Zamboanga shelters
April 11, 2014 ·
Seven children, age 3 to 12, were found to have STDs like gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia. ZAMBOANGA CITY-In yet another sign of the desperation to which evacuees here had been driven, prostitution in shelters has persisted despite officials saying it has been stopped. One evacuee, Hain Sukarna, 43, mother of three children, said prostitution persisted […]
Read More...Filipino youth worse off than peers in Asia, Africa
April 7, 2014 ·
By Cheryl M. Arcibal (philstar.com) MANILA, Philippines – The Filipino youth are worse off than their counterparts in countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Morocco, and Ghana, – countries, like the Philippines, that are also classified as “lower-middle income” – a study said. According to the Global Youth Wellbeing Index, released by the US-based think tank […]
Read More...An eyewitness account on the funeral of Romy Capalla
April 4, 2014 ·
By Alex Corpus Hermoso I took a taxi cab from the airport of Iloilo to join the motorcade that was organized by the civil society organizations, NGOs, POs and sympathetic political organizations to demand justice for the slain leader, Romeo Capalla. Upon boarding the cab, I immediately started conversation with the driver to ask about […]
Read More...Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro
April 2, 2014 ·
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – The Philippine government signed a peace accord with the country’s largest Muslim rebel group on Thursday, the culmination of years of negotiations and a significant political achievement for President Benigno Aquino III. The deal grants largely Muslim areas of the southern Mindanao region greater political autonomy in exchange for an end […]
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