At Quiapo’s Quinta Market, squash blooms were selling at Php50 per bunch and had reportedly been more popular among older men. “They are buying them as romantic jokes to their wives,” a vendor explained.
The opposition lawmakers said the information bolsters earlier testimonies by undersecretary Bernardo as well as revelations by former legislator and erstwhile Marcos ally Elizalde Co about Marcos’ receipt of billions in kickbacks.
Political prisoners Vicente Ladlad and Adelberto Silva cited de Venecia’s role in the peace talks between themselves and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), saying the veteran politician significantly contributed to the process.
“We welcome this suspension and celebrate with the people of Dupax. Let this be our affirmation of the necessity of collective action–that protesting, organizing, and defending our rights yield results, and that the struggle of Indigenous Peoples is just,” Indigenous peoples’ rights advocates Katribu said.
Exhibit shows the loss and resistance against the nationwide operation that killed thousands of Filipinos, which Duterte admitted to having ordered as part of his so-called ‘peace and order program’
Karapatan said the hazing of recruits by the police further exposes the notorious and vicious character of government’s law enforcement agencies.
ILPS said the US is fueling regional instability and places the Philippines in the crosshairs of war and destruction with increasing troop and armaments deployments.
This year’s second typhoon in the Philippines’ is the country’s first major disaster, killing five and injuring several others in Northern Mindanao on Thursday and Friday.
The study concluded that government’s weak implementation of its Fisheries Code leads to increasing scarcity of the country’s primary source of protein.
The three Filipina nurses were on their way home after shopping at Tabuk Park Mall, when they were hit by a speeding vehicle past midnight
