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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Drivers and operators of public jeepneys in Metro Cebu yesterday held a protest against the government policy to phase out jeepneys that are 15 years and older. Their grievance is understandable because many drivers would lose their…
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has dismissed the election protest filed by former Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmena against incumbent Mayor Michael Rama. In a decision dated November 13, Comelec’s first division ruled that based on the…
