PNR train derailed; Bicol run suspended

Juan Escandor Jr. (PDI Inquirer Southern Luzon)

NAGA CITY, Philippines—The commercial run of the Philippine National Railways (PNR) train on Bicol to Quezon routes was put on hold Monday after the train got derailed in one of its trips Sunday, local authorities said.

‘Frank’ leaves at least 86 dead, 700 missing

By Joel Guinto
INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE) At least 86 people were killed while over 700 others were missing after typhoon “Frank” (international codename: Fengshen) ravaged the Visayas and Southern Luzon, including Metro Manila, officials said Sunday.

NPA rebels torch Globe cell site in Sorsogon town

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.

US Labor Alliance Condemns Killings and Disappearances in the Philippines

By Combined Sources
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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.

Rice crisis is the Arroyo government’s own doing, can be her undoing

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.

Gov’t forces capture alleged NPA leader in Sorsogon

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.

ZTE Scandal – Sayaw Darling!

President Evil: Extinction, All Greeds are on

Profile: Rodolfo Noel I. Lozada, Jr.

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.

Mining Act of 1995 “13 years of people’s suffering and environmental destruction”

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.