By Raymund B. Villanueva Kodao Productions MANILA – Ferdinand Marcos Jr. dodged the impeachment bullet as a congressional committee overwhelmingly voted to declare the two complaints against him as “insufficient in substance.” Voting 42 in favor of the motion of insufficiency with a lone...
Public school teachers will soon receive higher teaching supplies allowances from the current P5,000 to double the amount, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) announced. ACT said it lauds the passage of the the “Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo Act” doubling the benefit to...
The guilty verdict on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., former president Rodrigo Duterte, and the Philippine government, as well on President Joseph Biden and the government of the United States of America (USA) is the world’s judgements on their war crimes in the...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. formed a new special coordination committee on human rights critics quickly dubbed “mere window dressing” that offers “no policy changes” on the dire human rights situations in the Philippines. Through Administrative Order (AO) 22...
Progressive groups pressed their demand for the abolition of the government’s anti-insurgency agency following the Supreme Court’s (SC) ruling defining the practice of red-tagging as a threat to a victim’s life, liberty and security. Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN)...
The Philippines fared worse in the World Press Freedom Index, falling by two points to 134th out of 180 countries this year compared to 132nd in 2023. Red-tagging and the continued detention of community journalist and broadcaster Frenchie Mae Cumpio were two of the...
Red-tagging, vilification, labeling, and guilt by association threaten a person’s right to life, liberty, or security, which may justify the issuance of a writ of amparo, the Supreme Court (SC) ruled. In a decision released today, the SC ruled in favor of veteran...
By NUEL M. BACARRAKodao Productions The Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) held a rally at the United States (US) Embassy in Manila three days before the 39th Balikatan military exercises end on May 9, demanding an end to the war games they said is anti-Filipino. The...
By NUEL M. BACARRAKodao Productions Progressive groups held a rally Friday morning, May 3, at the Bulwagan ng Katarungan in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija to support the filing of counter affidavits for the four activists charged with violations of RA 11479 or the...
Red-tagging remains among the most prevalent threats to press freedom that also include violence against journalists and the media in the Philippines, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) reported. In his keynote speech at the opening of the historic 1st Philippine...
Government workers groups are demanding from the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. administration an increase in their salaries, saying their current pay have been left way behind by current living wage estimates. The country’s major public sector union federations met at the...
United States President Joe Biden revealed plans for a more aggressive military presence in the Indo-Pacific region at the start of the US-Japan-Philippine trilateral summit in Washington DC, seen as a warning to Beijing that it will not surrender its dominance in the...
Anti-imperialist group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) led a protest rally at the Chinese consulate on Tuesday, demanding foreign troops within the Philippine territory to stop militarizing the West Philippine Sea. The group again denounced China’s incursions into...