Pigging out on pork – PDAF racket rocks ‘daang matuwid’
By Malou Mangahas Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism First of Five Parts HE IS still about to give his third State of the...
Filipino moms rank first in wanting to make a difference in world’s ailing food system survey finds
Manila, Philippines (18 July 2012) – The global food system – how food is grown, distributed and consumed – sends one billion people to bed...
Killings of Environment Advocates Unpunished
Killings of Environment Advocates Unpunished Cease Deploying Paramilitary Forces in Mining Areas (New York, July 18, 2012) – The Philippine government’s failure to address threats...
Money and mosque-making, marks of the Meranao people
by Assemblywoman Samira Gutoc-Tomawis What do rockista Bamboo (Marohombsar) , Angel Locsin and ANC anchor Adel Tamano have in common? They have ethnic roots from...
The Mesmerizing Maita: Requiem for a Reluctant Rebel
by bernie lopez for Eastwind Journals I met Maita Gomez for the first time quite recently at the Mining Conference at Ateneo de Davao University....
Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy urges extension of voters’ registration in ARMM #ARMMGenReg
via Assemblywoman Samira Gutoc-Tomawis The Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID) joins the call for setting up of voters’ registration outside the Autonomous Region...
Formal opposition to Sec. Leila de Lima and Cong. Neil Tupas, Jr Filed
Statement from Atty. Rico Quicho on the filing of: (1) a formal opposition against the nomination of Justice Sec. Leila de Lima for Chief Justice;...
Bantay ARMM updates: 889,619 from a baseline of 1,778,817 in 2010 #ARMMGenReg
via Samira Gutoc-Tomawis There are two days more to the end of the registration period in ARMM. As of 12 pm yesterday, the Phil. National...
RH Bill in ARMM: No mother should be made to suffer
via Assemblywoman Samira Gutoc-Tomawis The reproductive health bill is to be deliberated in the Assembly in ARMM this week. This is timely as we prepare...
FOI Coalition urges @noynoyaquino: Lead, Remember FOI in SONA
via the PCIJdot.org In the next fortnight on July 23, President Benigno S. Aquino III will deliver the state-of-the-nation address (SONA), his third as chief...
The Mining EO 79 fiasco authored by Noynoy’s ghost writers
by Bernie Lopez NOYNOY’S GHOST WRITERS The EO 79 Fiasco Eastwind Journals (Editor’s note: Eastwinds Journal emailed this to me . I am reposting it...
Bantay ARMM Registration Day 4: first casualty #ARMMGenReg
via Assemblywoman Samira Gutoc-Tomawis The first casualty of the registration has been identified as MR. SAID GURO, 17, shot at Bgy Dilausan, Lumbac a Unayan...
Video of Dolphy: Kandidatong Pulpol , a 1961 parody on our PH election
Dolphy was so much a part of Filipino families for decades. In a tribute to the Comedy King, Assemblywoman Samira Gutoc-Tomawis talks about Dolphy’s Films...
Universal Access to Reproductive Health Highlighted During World Population Day Celebration
Guinobatan- Albay, July 10, 2012 – World Population Day is being celebrated today to raise awareness on the importance of addressing population issues and their...
COA directs Biazon to bid the services of VASPs
THE COMMISSION on Audit (COA) has directed Customs Commissioner Rozzano Rufino Biazon to put into bidding the services of value added service providers (VASPs) to...