Posted by Bicol Today on April 14, 2008
By Delfin Mallari Jr., PDI Southern Luzon Bureau
LUCENA CITY, Philippines–At least 20 suspected New People’s Army rebels set fire to the cell site of Globe Telecom Inc. in Barangay Tabon-Tabon, Irosin, Sorsogon early Sunday, field reports to the Southern Luzon Armed Forces Command here said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Bicol Today on March 28, 2008
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Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) Endorses GMA (Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo) Watch
After hearing the moving story of Edith Burgos, the mother of abducted land reform and farmers’ advocate Jonas Burgos, the National Executive Board of the Asian-Pacific American Labor Alliance unanimously voted to endorse GMA Watch, a US based Philippine human rights monitoring network. Mrs. Burgos spoke to APALA as part of a seven city US speaking tour organized by GMA Watch, which raised awareness about the 890 politically motivated extrajudicial killings and more than 300 disappearances which have been committed presumably by the Philippine military under the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Bicol Today on March 27, 2008
Rice crisis is the Arroyo government’s own doing, can be her undoing Scientists recommend price control, policies to for food security and self-sufficiency
An immediate price cap on rice to avoid spiraling market prices together with medium and long term policies to develop the domestic rice industry will bring us out of the current crisis in rice supply and prices, said the scientists group AGHAM in a statement today. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Bicol Today on March 14, 2008
Delfin Mallari Jr.
Southern Luzon Bureau, PDI
LUCENA CITY, Philippines — A suspected leader of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Sorsogon province was captured by combined elements of police and Army soldiers Wednesday, a regional military spokesman said Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Bicol Today on March 3, 2008
Rodolfo Noel I. Lozada, Jr., 45, CEO of the Philippine Forest Corporation, surfaced at the La Salle Greenhills campus early morning today and implicated former Commission on Elections chair Benjamin Abalos Sr and First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo in the anomalous ZTE deal.
Lozada is an electronics and communications engineer and former chief executive officer of the Philippine Forest Corporation who served as a technical consultant to former Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Romulo Neri on the national broadband project. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Bicol Today on March 3, 2008
Ang labintatlong (13) taon na ang RA 7942 o Mining Act of 1995 ay nagdulot ng pagkasira sa kagubatan, pagpatag sa mga bundok, pagkalason ng yamang tubig at pagkasira sa buhay at kabuhayan ng mamamayan. Subalit ayon sa nag-isponsor ng batas na ito na si Gng. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo na noo’y senador pa lamang, ang batas na ito raw ang magbibigay daan sa industriyalisasyon ng pagmimina sa bansa. Subalit sa labintatlong taong pagiging epektibo ng batas na ito wala pa rin makitang pag-unlad sa industriya ng pagmimina sa bansa at lalong nalulugmok sa komunoy ng kahirapan ang mga mamamayang nakatira sa mga lugar kung saan isinasagawa ang pandarambong sa ating likas yaman. Nananatiling export oriented at import dependent ang pagmimina sa bansa. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Bicol Today on February 25, 2008
By Ephraim Aguilar, Inquirer.net
LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines — An anti-administration alliance here said relatives of Rodolfo Noel “Jun” Lozada Jr. in Ligao City, Albay are expected to join them in a prayer rally and candle-lighting ceremony here late Friday afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Bicol Today on February 25, 2008
By Celso Amo, Philippine Star
LEGAZPI CITY — About 1,000 rallyists denouncing massive corruption in government flocked to the Peñaranda Park fronting the provincial capitol here this morning.
Romy Bermodo, head of a transport group CONDOR-Bicol, lambasted the massive corruption in government, especially the botched National Broadband Deal (NBN) of the government with ZTE Corp. of China. Read the rest of this entry »
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