Tug-of-war

Editorial 06/09/2017

Trying to implement major projects to be funded by the national government can be quite a tedious and taxing process that can take years of lobbying and processing papers, not to mention being further complicated by partisan…

Propaganda war

Editorial 06/08/2017

While it is part and parcel of their job, it is still quite surprising to learn that the country’s armed forces is taking the initiative to hold public dialogues with Muslim leaders to counter the propaganda campaign…

PDEA-7, top office in gov’t’s drug war

Benjie Talisic 05/12/2017

THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) has been named as the agency’s best regional office in the campaign against illegal drugs in the first quarter of the year. Director Yogi Filemon Ruiz attributed the…

CIA forms special unit on North Korea threat

05/11/2017

WASHINGTON — The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said Wednesday it had formed a special unit dedicated to assessing North Korea’s nuclear weapons threat. The CIA created its first single country-focused mission center, pulling together resources from…

PH drug war under fire at UN rights council

05/09/2017

GENEVA — The Philippines came under global pressure Monday over its deadly drug war, facing calls for action following an alleged wave of extrajudicial killings. Diplomats from all continents raised concern over the surge in deaths during…

Civil society groups hold protest against death penalty, EJK

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/08/2017

More than 100 members of different civil society organizations (CSO) in Cebu staged a protest in front of Cebu Provincial Capitol Monday morning against death penalty and extrajudicial killings. Fr. Robert Reyes, the running priest, led the…

PDEA chief: No vacation for drug users, pushers in war

Benjie Talisic 04/30/2017

EVEN with students off to a summer vacation, the sale and use of drugs won’t go down among the youth, the regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-7) said yesterday. PDEA regional director Yogi Filemon Ruiz said it…

Digong warns: No franchise for ABS-CBN

04/27/2017

President Rodrigo Duterte will block the renewal of the ABS-CBN’s franchise. Duterte accused the network of “swindling” and slammed the media giant for supposedly not airing his political ad that was already paid during the campaign period…

Pagkabanhaw

Raymund Fernandez 04/18/2017

Pagkabanhaw” is Binisaya for resurrection. The fact we have such a word means the Bisaya have a native concept of it. We did not learn or borrow the word from foreign imperialists. Pagkabanhaw is a pre-Western concept…

Napo evacuees return to farms, try to bring back lives before clash

Benjie Talisic, Doris C. Bongcac 04/15/2017

AFTER the armed encounter between government troops and suspected Abu Sayyaf members in Inabanga town in Bohol province, evacuees from Barangay Napo are trying to bring some normalcy back in their lives. Most of the evacuees from…

Inabanga village chief claims 2 killed in clash were villagers, not Abu Sayyaf

Leo Udtohan 04/13/2017

INABANGA, Bohol-Do the five bodies recovered by the military really belong to members of the bandit group Abu Sayyaf? Not all, according to residents of remote village of Napo, Inabanga where alleged members of the Abu Sayyaf…

More govt. troops arrive in Bohol

Leo Udtohan 04/12/2017

INABANGA, Bohol-The clash between government troopers and suspected members of the bandit group Abu Sayyaf in Sitio Ilaya, in the remote village of Napo, Inabanga town, Bohol was not yet over, more than 24 hours since the…

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