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Waking up the sleeping giant

A roadmap for agriculture & fisheries Unlike some appointees, Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar practically breezed through the Commission on Appointments during his confirmation in...

Poems Written in NEW YORK

THE ETERNAL WOMAN The eternal womancomplainsabout the quality of breadin the kitchen. Nor do I growlback at herthough she angers melike a nail in my foot. MOONCURSE Although...

The Prez & the press: What in blazes happened?

It’s inevitable: Rodrigo Duterte and the press will never see eye to eye. There’s simply no way around it. Not now, and perhaps, not...

Enabling the Healthcare Provider Network (HCPN) in Bataan

Since the passage of the Universal Health Care (UHC) Act in February 2019, one of its key reforms has been the organization of a...

When business & books combine to promote reading

Q&A with Shereen T. Sy, pioneer of SM Book Nook For now, only two malls out of 87 SM malls in the Philippines have them. It is an undertaking that began at one of the poshest malls owned by the Sy family—the late business...

Duterte Arrested on ICC Warrant

Ex-President Charged with Crimes Against Humanity The arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his transfer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is a historic step toward justice, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 11, Philippine authorities acting on an...

Love, Social Justice & Corporate Social Responsibility in the time of global challenges

“There she is,” the woman in the car told her son, as she pointed to a petite and thin sampaguita garland vendor sitting on the stone steps of Mercury Drug in Scout Borromeo, Quezon City.     Rising, the vendor’s pale, harried face dissolved into...

Workers’ coalition calls on government to extend urgent legal assistance to undocumented Filipinos in the U.S.

This week, leaders of the NAGKAISA Labor Coalition met with representatives from the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) in Manila to discuss, among others,  the challenges faced by Filipino workers in the United States, particularly those who are undocumented. The meeting shed light...

Labor group welcomes suspension of cashless toll policy; questions TRB’s “bias toward toll operators”

The NAGKAISA Labor Coalition has welcomed the suspension of the mandatory cashless toll collection system, citing its unfair impact on low-income motorists. “This is a win for our advocacy and will benefit workers and motorists who will be burdened by an anti-poor policy. We...

Global human rights abuse tracker spurns government anew for charging activists, civil society groups with financing terrorism

Human Rights Watch—an independent organization that investigates and reports on human rights abuses around the world—has criticized Philippine authorities for “filing baseless terrorism financing charges against civil society groups and activists.” The global human rights abuse tracker added that the charges were apparently filed...

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