BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
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BAGUIO CITY — In one of the largest mass action this year, more than 3,000 local residents showed their power in a mass rally which urged President Noynoy Aquino to recall the permit granted by the DENR to the retail giant SM Baguio to cut and earth ball 182 trees at the [...]
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
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BAGUIO CITY — As tribal war looms between two tribes in Kalinga province, the Philippine National Police (PNP) arrested on Thursday, January 19, a member of the Lubo tribe who allegedly shot dead a Mangali tribesman in Tabuk City, Kalinga on Tuesday.
The arrest of Fredie Tumbali, of the Mangali tribe, could diffuse [...]
BY ALDWIN QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY — The Baguio Filipino-Chinese community made a presentation to medical students, practitioners and other residents of Baguio outputs from health researches on the use of traditional Chinese medicine in difficult and complicated medical cases.
The forum was held at the Baguio City Multi-Purpose Hall last January 19 as one of the [...]
BY ROD TAJON
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SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union — Unknown to family and legal counsel, another fabricated charges were filed against two of the Cervantes 4, a human rights group in Ilocos reported.
FREE THE CERVANTES 4!Families and HR groups trooped at the Commission on Human Rights Regional Office 1 to file complaints on the [...]
BY NORDIS
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BAGUIO CITY — While relieved that the editor-in-chief of a local campus paper gained her temporary liberty after posting bail, campus journalists here claimed that the case of libel against her is an act of campus press freedom repression.
UPHOLD CAMPUS PRESS FREEDOM. The staff of the campus newspaper of the University of [...]
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The poem of Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918), entitled Trees:
“I think that I shall never see, A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest, Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear, A nest of [...]
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
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The opening salvo of the Baguio residents’ protest on Friday against SM’s plan to kill trees by cutting and earth-balling at the Luneta Hill showed again their unity to preserve the city. They too called for an urban development that shall be pro-environment and pro-people. Joyful to watch, a mobilization dominated by [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
www.nordis.net
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business — anonymous
An employee of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) of this region has already served his preventive suspension, abling him to return to work again in the agency that has charged him for [...]
Nina MACON MUYOT and FRENCESCA DE OCAMPO
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Isa sa pinakamaiinit na isyu ngayon sa bansa ang karagdagang dalawang taon ng pag-aaral sa elementarya at sekundarya o mas kilala bilang K+12. Naiulat noon na nagsimula nang ipatupad ang planong ito noong nakaraang school year sa kindergarten. Ipagpapatuloy ang pagpapatupad ng K+12 sa susunod na school year sa [...]
By REV. LUNA DINGAYAN
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“One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I see.” — John 9:25b
Diagnosed of cataract
It was August of last year in Dumaguete when Bishop Erme Camba noticed that I looked sickly than usual. Wasting no time he took a portable monitoring machine and tested my blood sugar. It was higher [...]
Sa Pilipinas, hindi maikakailang nagpapatuloy ang karahasang nararanasan ng mga kababaihan. Sari-saring paglabag sa karapatang pantao ang kanilang kinakaharap – pinapatay, dinudukot, tinotortyur, ikinukulong. Kaya naman, tayo ay manawagan para sa hustisya sa lahat ng biktima ng karahasan.
Simula 2001, mayroon nang 153 na kababaihang biktima ng extrajudicial killings, anim pa ang nadagdag dito simula nang manungkulan ang administrasyong Aquino.
Ni BRENDA S. DACPANO
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Chinese New Year ti kapategan ken kaatiddogan nga holiday kadagiti Chinese nga agbayag iti dua a lawas. Maysa kadagiti napateg a paset ti baro a tawen ket dagiti maidasar a taraon. Tunggal makan ket adda kaibatogan na a kaipapanan wenno simbolo. Kas ti dumpling wenno jiaozi iti Chinese a simbolo ti kinarang-ay [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY — Members of the Beaconsfield Initiative, an exposure mission comprising mostly of Canadian church members visited the Cordillera Region especially in the areas where there are Canadian Mining Companies said that there is an ongoing “legal terrorism” victimizing the community people.
Reverend Patricia Lisson, Directress of the St. Columbia House said that [...]
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
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BAGUIO CITY — Residents of this highland city lambast the issuance of a permit by the DENR to SM where the latter already “sentenced to death” 182 trees at the Luneta Hill here to give way for a parking lot that it (SM) would operate.
CORPORATE GREED? Residents of Baguio [...]
By KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL
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LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — The mayor of this town welcomes the graft complaints filed against him at the Office of the Ombudsman for northern Luzon in connection to the procurement of a zero waste management technology to mitigate garbage problem. He reiterates that the case is academic though.
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Baguio City’s proposed budget for 2012 has allotted the largest slice (12% of the total budget) to the City Environment and Parks Maintenance Office (CEPMO). This city office supervises and manages the city parks, watersheds, monitors the air quality, the garbage or waste, and sewerage systems. If approved it has P114,695,700 to spend this year, [...]
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
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A month ago on December 15, 2011, William “Billy” F. Claver, a well known Cordillera legislator and human rights lawyer passed away. From the region’s various indigenous peoples, he was remembered by his free legal aid to his people and his contribution to the attainment of his peoples’ aspiration, particularly on the [...]
By RUDY D. LIPORADA
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At the heel of the new Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT) slogan, motto, or whatever – “It’s more fun in the Philippines,” viral positive and negative comments swirled all over the internet as fast as the deathly waters of Sendong had buried hundreds of Filipinos recently. While there were praises to the [...]
By KATHLEEN T. OKUBO
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All twelve animals of the Oriental Zodiac asked, why can’t we plant together, nurture the farm and the forest together and then share the harvest with the whole commmunity?
The Chinese Spring Festival usually opens the new year and has been traditionally observed for centuries in and by Oriental countries. For countries in [...]
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
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BAGUIO CITY — In one of the largest mass action this year, more than 3,000 local residents showed their power in a mass rally which urged President Noynoy Aquino to recall the permit granted by the DENR to the retail giant SM Baguio to cut and earth ball 182 trees at the [...]
BY NORDIS with reports from FRANCESCA DE OCAMPO
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BAGUIO CITY — It welcomes the Lunar year with the biggest protest rally yet this year here. More than 3,000 people from different schools, community groups and organizations marched down Session Road to Malcolm Square under the heat of the Friday afternoon sun in opposition to SM’s plan [...]
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
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BAGUIO CITY — As tribal war looms between two tribes in Kalinga province, the Philippine National Police (PNP) arrested on Thursday, January 19, a member of the Lubo tribe who allegedly shot dead a Mangali tribesman in Tabuk City, Kalinga on Tuesday.
The arrest of Fredie Tumbali, of the Mangali tribe, could diffuse [...]
BY ALDWIN QUITASOL
www.nordis.net
BAGUIO CITY — The Baguio Filipino-Chinese community made a presentation to medical students, practitioners and other residents of Baguio outputs from health researches on the use of traditional Chinese medicine in difficult and complicated medical cases.
The forum was held at the Baguio City Multi-Purpose Hall last January 19 as one of the [...]
BY ROD TAJON
www.nordis.net
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union — Unknown to family and legal counsel, another fabricated charges were filed against two of the Cervantes 4, a human rights group in Ilocos reported.
FREE THE CERVANTES 4!Families and HR groups trooped at the Commission on Human Rights Regional Office 1 to file complaints on the [...]
BY NORDIS
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BAGUIO CITY — While relieved that the editor-in-chief of a local campus paper gained her temporary liberty after posting bail, campus journalists here claimed that the case of libel against her is an act of campus press freedom repression.
UPHOLD CAMPUS PRESS FREEDOM. The staff of the campus newspaper of the University of [...]
BY ALMA B. SINUMLAG
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RIZAL, Kalinga — In a traditional ceremony to celebrate the boys’ passing into manhood called “so-ob” of the Butbut tribe in Sitio Anonang, Barangay Liwan West of this town, the elders challenged the youth to revive the deteriorating cultural integrity of the community.
One elder said he is saddened that the community’s [...]
BY ALDWIN QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY — “Help us protect our ancestral lands that we and our ancestors have fought for so long”, said Basilio Binay-an during the public hearing of the proposed Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) on January 10 at Lucnab here.
PINUNEG. Lucnab residents prepare lunch for the participants in the public [...]
BY GINA DIZON
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SAGADA, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE — This year’s 2012 Sagada Etag Festival shall be celebrated with exciting events from February 2-5, 2012 by 19 participating barangays of this tourist town, guests and visitors.
It shall start with the opening of ‘etag ‘ (smoked meat) booths on the first day of the festival along with the [...]
BY KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY — The city government is hopeful that the annual Chinese new year celebration in the city of pines would attract more tourists.
During the media night, last January 17, City Mayor Mauricio Domogan admitted that there was a decline in the number of tourists who visited the city as he expressed [...]
BY ALMA B. SINUMLAG
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BAGUIO CITY — Badchang or the Ifugao’s counterpart for Bayanihan is to be revived in a campaign to restore the damaged part of the Batad Rice Terraces. The damaged area was due to the wrath of a typhoon last year.
BADCHANG. John Chua, an adopted son of Banaue, Ifugao calls for [...]
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BY PIYA MALAYAO/KAMP
MANILA — Mining has barely been a national issue. Usually, mining only reaches headlines when colossal disasters occur such as the Marcopper disaster in 1996. But in the past several months, the issue of mining is splashed across dailies and mining ads interrupts primetime soaps. With the ‘no to mining’ petitions and the [...]
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BY ROBIE HALIP
MANILA — The creation of an Indigenous Peoples Education Office in the Department of Education is an A+ initiative that will improve education programs for one of the most marginalized sectors of the society—the indigenous peoples, says Rep Teddy Baguilat.
This is in response to the announcement of the Secretary Luistro on the creation [...]
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By BAYAN PR
MANILA — A quarter of a century after the infamous Mendiola Massacre of 1987, farmers and supporters marched today to the Don Chino Roces Bridge to demand land and justice.
“From the first Aquino regime to the second Aquino regime, from the time of the Mendiola Massacre and even after the Hacienda Luisita Massacre, [...]
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P25-M Burnham Park fencing project to start
By PNA
BAGUIO CITY — The contractor of the Office of the President (OP) funded P25 million peso fencing project of Burnham Park is set to start the work this month.
This was learned from engineer Cesar Rillera of the city engineering office which will oversee the work pursuant to the [...]
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Pay Philhealth now before new rates come
By Oliver T. Baccay
TUGUEGARAO CITY — The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC) has urged its members and sponsors to avail of the incentives by paying their annual contributions before the implementation of the 100 percent hike in premium contributions.
Cesar Sales, chief of field operations division, said that starting July [...]
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The poem of Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918), entitled Trees:
“I think that I shall never see, A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest, Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear, A nest of [...]
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
www.nordis.net
The opening salvo of the Baguio residents’ protest on Friday against SM’s plan to kill trees by cutting and earth-balling at the Luneta Hill showed again their unity to preserve the city. They too called for an urban development that shall be pro-environment and pro-people. Joyful to watch, a mobilization dominated by [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
www.nordis.net
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business — anonymous
An employee of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) of this region has already served his preventive suspension, abling him to return to work again in the agency that has charged him for [...]
Nina MACON MUYOT and FRENCESCA DE OCAMPO
www.nordis.net
Isa sa pinakamaiinit na isyu ngayon sa bansa ang karagdagang dalawang taon ng pag-aaral sa elementarya at sekundarya o mas kilala bilang K+12. Naiulat noon na nagsimula nang ipatupad ang planong ito noong nakaraang school year sa kindergarten. Ipagpapatuloy ang pagpapatupad ng K+12 sa susunod na school year sa [...]
By REV. LUNA DINGAYAN
www.nordis.net
“One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I see.” — John 9:25b
Diagnosed of cataract
It was August of last year in Dumaguete when Bishop Erme Camba noticed that I looked sickly than usual. Wasting no time he took a portable monitoring machine and tested my blood sugar. It was higher [...]
Sa Pilipinas, hindi maikakailang nagpapatuloy ang karahasang nararanasan ng mga kababaihan. Sari-saring paglabag sa karapatang pantao ang kanilang kinakaharap – pinapatay, dinudukot, tinotortyur, ikinukulong. Kaya naman, tayo ay manawagan para sa hustisya sa lahat ng biktima ng karahasan.
Simula 2001, mayroon nang 153 na kababaihang biktima ng extrajudicial killings, anim pa ang nadagdag dito simula nang manungkulan ang administrasyong Aquino.
Ni BRENDA S. DACPANO
www.nordis.net
Chinese New Year ti kapategan ken kaatiddogan nga holiday kadagiti Chinese nga agbayag iti dua a lawas. Maysa kadagiti napateg a paset ti baro a tawen ket dagiti maidasar a taraon. Tunggal makan ket adda kaibatogan na a kaipapanan wenno simbolo. Kas ti dumpling wenno jiaozi iti Chinese a simbolo ti kinarang-ay [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
www.nordis.net
BAGUIO CITY — Members of the Beaconsfield Initiative, an exposure mission comprising mostly of Canadian church members visited the Cordillera Region especially in the areas where there are Canadian Mining Companies said that there is an ongoing “legal terrorism” victimizing the community people.
Reverend Patricia Lisson, Directress of the St. Columbia House said that [...]
