PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Philippine National Police yesterday thanked United States Ambassador Kristie Kenney’s for supporting their initial findings that an accidental explosion and not a terror attack was behind the…
Loren pushes ecology as school subject
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Senate has laid the groundwork for the integration of environmental studies into the school curriculum after it passed on third and final reading the proposed Environmental Awareness…
P1-B fight vs poverty
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — RESOLVED to keep hunger at bay, President Macapagal-Arroyo yesterday ordered the budget department to release P1 billion for various hunger-mitigation programs. The President issued the directive during the…
Banco de Oro ordered to turn over Erap’s millions
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE court yesterday ordered Banco de Oro to hand over millions of dollars in kickbacks former President Joseph Estrada collected from illegal gaming rackets. The special anti-graft court’s…
Solon wants Deputy Speaker kicked out
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — A RANKING official of the Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino yesterday denied the administration party had a policy of giving financial assistance to members and non-members. He also said…
Greenpeace shakes biotechnology meet with demand for GE-free crops
Bangkok, 7 November 2007–Greenpeace today shook the opening of BioAsia 2007 Thailand, the first international trade exhibition and conference for biotechnology in Bangkok, when Greenpeace volunteers dressed as farmers installed 60 mock…
Recruiters seek relaxed immigration law in RP-Japan trade deal
by Jeremaiah M. Opinianowww.ofwjournalism.net QUEZON CITY–RECRUITERS of Filipinos to Japan are tying that country’s immigration law to the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement currently under negotiation, believing that the former is the key…
What Asean migrant’s rights agenda? – analysts
By Jeremaiah Opinianowww.ofwjournalism.net MANILA—ANALYSTS are far from getting their hopes up that migrant workers’ rights would spike interest among leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations who would meet next month…
Migration no guarantee out of rural poverty – WB
by Isagani de la Pazwww.ofwjournalism.net MANILA–CONTRARY to popular beliefs, migration, despite the volume of money it brings, has neither brought rural folks out of poverty nor is it a sure fire way…
Exec says undocumented workers bleeding DFA dry
By Neil Allendewww.ofwjournalism.net PASAY CITY—A FOREIGN Affairs executive bared that Filipino workers going abroad through informal channels and encounters problems are causing financial ills for government. Cresente Relacion, executive director of the…
PAMB, ‘di na makapaghintay na ipatupad ang URRF
by Carvelo L. Malubagwww.balikas.net LUNGSOD NG BATANGAS- HINDI na makapaghintay ang punong-abala sa pangangalaga ng Lawa ng Taal: nais na niyang ipatupad ang regulasyon ukol sa pangingisda sa lawa. Habang hinihintay ng…
Problemang nag-uumpisa sa barangay
Editoryalwww.balikas.net LAGI na lamang nating nakikita sa ating halalan, mapanasyunal man, lokal, maging ng barangay ang tahasang paglabag ng mga kandidato sa mga alituntunin ng Commission on Elections. Nariyan na ang pamimili…
Bilang ng tao, hadlang sa pagiging lungsod ng Nasugbu
by Marlon Alexander S. Luistrowww.balikas.net LUNGSOD NG BATANGAS–ANG bilang ng tao ang hadlang upang maging ganap na lungsod ang tinaguriang kabisera ng turismo ng Batangas: ang Nasugbu. Pero kung tatanungin si Punong-Bayan…
8 awards for ABS-CBN
PNS — ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation won eight awards and two special citations for its outstanding television and radio programs at the 2007 Catholic Mass Media Awards, making it the most CMMA-awarded media…
Busiest actor
PNS — COCO Martin is our busiest film actor this year. He has nine completed films all waiting to be released: “Nars” with Jennylyn Mercado where he plays a gay nursing student,…