FOR THE WEEK JAN 23-JAN 29, 2005

• Northern Luzon groups hit solons’ pro-VAT votes
• Urban poor slam VAT bill
• Ilocos academic groups urge pay, education budget hike
• Sigwa ng Unang Kwarto: Isang balik-tanaw
• Soldiers harrass another Kalinga farmer
• NPA belies any role in Abra warlordism
• Ethyl plant re-defy closure demand
• Anti-demolition rally caps urban poor congress
• Local NUJP submits two cases to int’l mission
• Chaos mars closure order against Jadewell
• 10th Panagbenga pushes through in meningo-safe Baguio
• Government deaf to employees, teachers’ call for a salary hike and higher educ budget
• BCU students picket administration building
• UP holds Ifugao local history seminar
• Ifugao governor grants tax amnesty
• Labor Watch: KMU-Cordi assails wage board for being anti-workers
• A tribute to the Panagbenga Hymn composer: It is like reaching a plateau

FOR THE WEEK JAN 16-JAN 23, 2005

• Women advocates oppose Belagan reinstatement
• Amid legal battle, urban poor want Baguio parks and streets back
• The First Quarter Storm in perspective: A Baguio boy remembers
• New tax code to boost Urdaneta economy
• Ilocos folk demand eviction of Army camp
• New cattle market on the rise
• Baguio peasants, workers remember Mendiola, Luisita massacres
• UB-UBBO: Indigenous cooperative system practice by Lamag villagers
• Cordillera newsbriefs
• Baguio-La Trinidad newsbriefs

FOR THE WEEK JAN 9-JAN 15, 2005

• Ilocos, Cordi folk claim economy worse under GMA
• Tabuk residents urge justice for Dulawon
• “Areglo” frustrates justice for Omaois
• Baguio dad urges speedy delineation in CJH
• Meningo scare fades
• BWD opens lone bidder’s last envelopes
• Irisan leaders unite to fight demolition
• Pangasinan still unfazed by meningococcemia
• Delayed projects give Urdaneta folk worse new year
• Orata founding of first HS in Pangasinan not hoax
• BCU nursing, midwifery students protest affiliation fee hike
• Closure order coming up against Jadewell
• Yaranon stops tree cutting at BGH Rotonda
• Labor Watch: Charges filed against DOLE Secretary, Tarlac rep, & Jose Cojuangco
• Cordillera newsbriefs

FOR THE WEEK JAN 3-JAN 8, 2005

• Baguio health officials clarify meningo issues
• Benguet Corp earns P0.5 M monthly from ‘entrance fees’
• MPSA in Isabela suspended
• Philippine National Police declares Omaois case solved
• Kalinga farmer-businessman shot dead by unidentified men
• Bloating farmer’s debts worries NIA
• Goons fire anew at Luisita picket; 2 workers hurt
• Labor Watch: Philex local elections reset on Jan. 10, 2005
• Movie Review: Cry me a river no more for Pinoy film industry
• Health Advisory: Maintaining our rationality at a time of Meningo panic