Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Chibo Tan of the National Federation of Labor Unions said the situation of the city government’s job order and contract of service workers only reflect the system of the current dispensation which implements contractualization, a scheme that...
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld JUNE 12, 1898, the date when, 115 years ago, Emilio Aguinaldo declared Philippine independence from Spain, was marked this year with the usual speeches, flag-raisings, floral offerings and other...
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The privatization mantra is being incessantly hummed by the Aquino III administration. Privatization is being promoted to the public as the solution to deteriorated, broken-down and inadequate public utilities and social...
Friday, June 14th, 2013
The players in the cacao industry have targeted to produce one Million metric tons of cacao by 2014. Currently, the target falls short with the country producing only 20,000 MT out of the 130,000 to 150,000...
Friday, June 14th, 2013
The Department of Agrarian Reform is seemingly caught between doing what the Supreme Court directed them to do and the dictates of the Cojuangco family.
Friday, June 14th, 2013
By Alex Kane AlterNet.org Edward Snowden is in the crosshairs of the Obama administration. The 29-year-old former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency has just become world-famous for his disclosure to The Guardian of the massive surveillance...
Friday, June 14th, 2013
By JESSE ROSENFELD AlterNet.org As a sea of riot police backed by water cannon trucks pushed past the barricades, seizing the center of Taksim Square in a barrage of teargas and rubber bullets, the small environmental protests-turned-urban...
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
What’s P-Noy game plan on Bangsamoro issue?
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The P-Noy government has vowed to resolve the Bangsamoro issue in Mindanao within its six-year-term ending in June 2016, and the presidential adviser on the peace...