By MARYA SALAMAT
“Since the entry of the call center industry into the country in the early 2000s, there is a downward trend in the salaries being received by the majority of call center agents.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Breastmilk is and will always be best for babies. This is the message of the Association for the Rights of Children in Southeast Asia (ARCSEA) delivered in a recent milk letting activity in Manila as it appealed to the public and to all Filipino mothers with newborns to breastfeed [...]
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
By MARYA SALAMAT
While progressive groups welcome the review, they worry about the independence of the committee, the quality of, and its hesitation to share, the data it would be getting, and the limits that it imposes on itself.
By MARYA SALAMAT
In Congress there are 14 proposals and three resolutions calling for the review or scrapping altogether of the Oil Deregulation Law and Value-Added Tax on oil products.
Sidebar: Aquino’s VAT windfall, defense of oil firms’ ‘greed’ questioned
Thursday, March 22, 2012By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Because of the almost weekly increase in oil prices, there is a growing consensus among some lawmakers, peoples’ organizations and various consumers’ advocates that the most immediate relief the Aquino government can give is to remove or reduce the Value-Added Tax (VAT) on oil products. Since last week, even [...]
Tuesday, March 20, 2012By DONNA RABANG PETA Northern Dispatch www.nordis.net TAGAYTAY CITY – Concluding with a declaration that the “Philippines is not for sale”, delegates to the Third People’s Mining Conference here, shared their resolutions and declarations at a multi-sectoral joint protest action in Mendiola, Manila to commemorate the passage of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 on [...]
Friday, March 9, 2012By ROBERT PANGOD Northern Dispatch SAGADA, Mountain Province – The intent of renewable energy firm PhilCarbon to develop a 15-MW wind farm at the boundary of Sagada and Besao got an initial backing of the host communities in a consultation at the Sagada Town Hall last February 28. “The reason for the support is that [...]
Monday, March 5, 2012By BRANDON LEE Northern Dispatch LAGAWE, Ifugao — On the 22nd General Assembly of the Ifugao Bus and Jeep Operators and Drivers Association (IBJODA), they invited as speaker Mr George San Mateo, chairman of PISTON, a nationwide confederation of drivers and operators. IBJODA claims a membership of 250 drivers and operators. San Mateo discussed the [...]
Monday, March 5, 2012By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch MAKATI CITY– Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño warned the mining companies about their plunder of natural resources during the Northern Luzon and Central Luzon picket at the Chamber of Mines. “We are calling on the mine firms not to abuse the privileges given them by the mining act of [...]
Thursday, January 26, 2012
By MARYA SALAMAT
“The TRB decision approving the automatic increase in toll fee rates every two years should be scrapped.” – Taxpayers Unity vs Toll Fee Hike
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Small-scale mining is not the only cause, and is not even the biggest cause, of the destruction of Pantukan’s erstwhile forest lands… large-scale commercial logging operations since the 50s and large-scale mining operations of the past 30 years have massively denuded the mountains of Compostela Valley.”
Filipinos join protests against NATO in Chicago, US (Photo by Brett Jelinek / Bulatlat.com)
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