Two militant lawmakers, who have been cleared of rebellion charges, were stopped briefly at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Friday. 10/5/2007 read more

For only 5$ each, some 10 million Filipino women have been lost to mail-order-bride syndicates for the past 20 years, according to Senate President Manny Villar. read more

Dutch Companies to Boycott! read more

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has commuted the two life terms imposed about 10 years ago on former Zamboanga del Norte representative Romeo Jalosjos for raping an 11-year-old girl in 1996. 6/12/2007 read more

The role reversal in the Philippines showed that employed women were two to three times more likely than men to work exceptionally long hours of over 64 hours per week. 6/7/2007 read more

The United States handed over $10 million in bounties to four Muslim men in the southern Philippines on Thursday for their role in the killing of two leaders of the country's deadliest Islamic militant group. 6/7/2007 read more

House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Representative Satur C. Ocampo on Wednesday called on state security forces to surface Gilbert Rey "Jing" Cardino, the partylist group's chairperson for South Cotabato and regional coordinator for SOCSKSARGEN. 6/6/2007 read more

A jobless Filipino immigrant in Canada has been charged for killing his hardworking wife who was reported missing since May 8. 6/5/2007 read more

Bayan Muna, now in danger of losing one representative in the next Congress, will ask the Supreme Court to "revisit" the rule which grants three seats in the House of Representatives solely to the topnotcher in the party-list race. 6/5/2007 read more

IN what must have been his most scathing rebuke yet, Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran today delivered a privilege speech before the House of Representatives, assailing government authorities on his "illegal arrest and detention." 6/4/2007 read more

A group of protesters attacked a hotel where an American delegation is supposed to stay during the G-8 summit this week, and some demonstrators also battered police cars with rocks, bottles and paint bombs 6/2/2007 read more

The Supreme Court on Friday junked rebellion cases against the "Batasan 6" party-list lawmakers even as it chided the Department of Justice (DOJ) for meddling in the affairs of politics. 6/1/2007 read more

IN NEWSSTANDS NOW
Politics of the Absurd
by Ninotchka Rosca.
Ms. Magazine, Summer 2006. Manila madness targets Filipina activists. “Congresswoman Liza Maza of the Philippines’ Gabriela Women’s Party never expected to find herself accused of culpability in a 1971 Plaza Miranda grenade-throwing—especially since she was 14 at the time, and since the attack wiped out many political opponents of then-budding dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos… To such absurdity has politics sunk in the country that once elated the world by showing mass democracy in action with the 1986 People Power uprising that ousted Marcos’ dictatorship