Trump’s victory prompts protests across US

11/11/2016

Washington — Protesters burned a giant orange-haired head of Donald Trump in effigy, lit fires in the streets and blocked traffic as rage over the billionaire’s election victory spilled onto the streets of major US cities. From…

Rody to ask for coffee cop who rammed protesters

10/23/2016

Davao City — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday said he would invite for coffee the police officer who rammed into Wednesday’s protest line outside the US Embassy in Manila to ask him why he did it. “I…

Better lukewarm than absent

Rina Jimenez-David 10/21/2016

For a while there, it looked like activists and political protesters were happy playing footsies with the police and military. Where normally activists, many of them from the Left, would be the first to raise a howl…

China veterans protest pension delays

10/17/2016

BEIJING — For Yu Shuiping and other Chinese veterans, the country they served has yet to show its gratitude. Fed up with paltry pensions and benefits, they’re taking to the streets, hoping to shame the government into…

Murder is the brand

Raymund Fernandez 08/02/2016

A friend of mine expressed a theory he must have taken from someone or somewhere else, perhaps from a galaxy far, far away. He was commenting, of course, on what now seems a tsunami of Rightist fascistic…

French labor standoff shuts down Eiffel tower

06/29/2016

PARIS – Paris’ most recognizable monument will remain closed to visitors on Tuesday as Eiffel Tower staff joined strike action against controversial labor reforms. “Since there aren’t enough staff present to open the monument under safe and…

Protests turn violent outside Trump rally in New Mexico

05/26/2016

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Protests outside a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico turned violent Tuesday night as demonstrators threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at officers, overturned trash cans and knocked down barricades. Police responded…

Rama to seek help from Duterte

Julit C. Jainar 05/24/2016

ELECTION PROTEST AFTER filing an election protest against Mayor-elect Tomas Osmeña before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Manila Friday last week, suspended Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said he would ask help from incoming President Rodrigo…

Toledo bet wants recount of votes

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/19/2016

A CANDIDATE who ran for a City Council seat under Toledo City Mayor John Henry “Sonny” Osmeña’s Team Alagad slate filed an election protest against One Cebu leaders Thursday. Risa Rafols is one of four candidates ranked…

Group vows to campaign vs. Marcos supporters

Jhunnex Napallacan 03/17/2016

LOCAL officials who will support the vice presidential bid of Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. got fair warning yesterday from the Anti-Bongbong Coalition (ABC). Noel Tabasa, ABC spokesman, said that local officials who will support Marcos will…

Cebu drivers protest reduction of flagdown rate

Edison Delos Angeles 03/16/2016

More than 100 taxi units blocked a portion of L. Briones Street in front of the Land Transportation Franchise and Regulatory Board in Central Visayas (LTFRB-7) to protest the reduction of their flagdown rates. Some drivers carried…

22 Maternity Hospital employees barred from working

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/16/2016

ABOUT 20 members of the Cebu Maternity Hospital employees were barred from entering the Cebu Puericulture Maternity House at 7 am Wednesday. Fundador Alforque, vice president of the union, said they received a notice yesterday from the…

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