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In February, Maribel Figaroa and several other Filipino women went to Oman to work as domestic helpers. Instead of gainful employment, they ended up being… 07/31/2009
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Sick Filipina Maid, 6 Others, ‘Hostaged’ by Employment Agency in Middle East
In Arroyo’s SONA: A Different Picture
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In her ninth State of the Nation Address, President Arroyo painted a rosy picture of the Philippines – a world so much different from the… 07/31/2009
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Apart from Politics, Pressure from WTO, US, EU Drives Charter-Change Bid
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The political dimension of charter change has dominated the national agenda. But the constant driving force behind all the attempts since the last decade to… 07/16/2009
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Bombings Raise Specter of Martial Law
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While authorities dismiss the recent bombings in Quezon City, Jolo, Iligan City and Cotabato City as mere pre-Sona “noises,” critics, martial-law era activists and analysts… 07/16/2009
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Activist Nightingale passes away
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By Trina Lagura MANILA – Activist-singer Susan Fernandez passed away Thursday (July 2) afternoon after battling ovarian cancer for more than a year. She was… 07/16/2009
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Susan Fernandez, 1956-2009: Missing folk singer and feminist
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By Boy Villasanta MANILA–The first time Susan Fernandez and I met was at the office of Dr. Nicanor G. Tiongson at the Faculty Center of… 07/16/2009
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Torture victim Melissa Roxas: ‘Talking about it is like going back to that dark place’
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By RONALYN V. OLEA Human Rights Watch Bulatlat MANILA — Filipino-American Melissa Roxas finally broke her silence and recounted her ordeal in the hands of… 07/16/2009
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A Peasant Leader’s Murder Shatters the ‘Peace’ in Dumaguete
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Fermin Lorico was a peasant organizer and a mass leader. He had been a marked man. On Wednesday, minutes after attending the anti-charter change rally… 06/26/2009
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Falling remittances foretell gloomier consumption, growth
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Remittance from overseas Filipinos continued to slow in with year-on-year growth of just 2.2% in April which is down from 3.1% in March and 4.9%… 06/26/2009
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Journalist Julius Fortuna dies of heart attack
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MANILA–Journalist Julius Forlales Fortuna died of massive heart attack at 9 a.m. Tuesday (June 23). He was 61 years old. He left behind wife Sabina… 06/26/2009
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