FOR THE WEEK MAR 20-APR 2, 2005

• Baguio Consumers intensify water rights fight
• Militarization heightens in Abra
• SLU students file raps against administration
• Lang-ay 2005 opens in Mountain Province
• Mutes march proud on graduation day
• Nana Rosa’s cornick: pride of the north
• Bayan Muna ask PNP chief to step up moves in Sanchez slay
• Killer of DzEQ technician, a cop?
• PSU official keen on graft charges against prexy
• Pangasinan farmers hesitate to plant high yielding varieties (HYVs)
• DOT-CAR awards best decorated establishments
• Benguet eyed as sericulture capital
• Cordillera youth in Manila observe Kaigorotan Youth Week
• Migrante Monitor: 6,000 OFWs stranded in Iraq despite ban
• Labor Watch: Philex eviction continues
• Newsbriefs

FOR THE WEEK MAR 13-MAR 19, 2005

• Stop San Roque Dam operations—peasant groups
• Log ban: bane to Ifugao woodcarvers?
• Proposed FPIC guidelines must uphold self-determination — CPA
• Pangasinan LGU bans logging by charcoal makers to protect forest and wildlife
• Cordillera loom weavers struggle to survive
• Hacienda Luisita picket di matinag sa kabila ng sunud-sunod na pagpaslang
• BSU professor answers student’s complaints
• Iginigiit ng kawani ng gubyerno P3,000 dagdag pasahod
• Cordillera indigenous peoples perform own rituals
• Loakan Airport at 75: a historical note
• Migrante Monitor: Philippine government still ignores OFW issues — Migrante
• Labor Watch: KMU-Cordillera intensifies campaign on P125 wage hike
• UP BC-130-B students holds independent film festival
• Newsbriefs

FOR THE WEEK MAR 6-MAR 12, 2005

• Bayan Muna-Ilocos leader assassinated in Baguio City
• Cordi women demand relief from econ crisis
• BENECO increases power rates despite unbundling
• Kalinga youth observe KYW
• Ethyl plant closed
• GMA, VAT bill criticized on IWWD
• Picket held over SLU fee hikes
• Lepanto faces 2 unions in CBA
• Kababaihan ng Cagayan, nag-martsa laban sa VAT
• Kiniing: the Benguet Kankanaey ham
• Labor Watch: TRO against eviction denied
• Migrante Monitor: DFA, Jordanian embassy remiss on distressed OFW cases
• Newsbriefs

FOR THE WEEK FEB 27-MAR 5, 2005

• Cordillera peoples heighten fight against mining TNCs
• Benguet SP tutol sa dagdag VAT
• UC students protest fee hikes
• Ilocos farmers want P75/kilo for tobacco
• Dangtalan, Puapo now part of Guinaang-Lubuagan bodong
• Armed Forces of the Philippines claims New Peoples Army holds medical mission and recruitment in Sadanga, Mt. Province
• COA probes PSU anomalies
• Metal scavengers cause Paracelis Bridge collapse
• Land conversion unavoidable in growing urban centers
• No dry spell in Region 1
• BSU students want professor sanctioned for academic negligence
• Regional mining confab picket DENR
• A strong sense of community: A tribute to Lakay Alipio Pasiteng
• Labor Watch: Retrenched workers file petition for TRO against Philex Mining Corporation
• Labor Watch: NLRC drops cases against Lepanto unions
• Migrante Monitor: Poverty, economic crisis forces Pinoys to risk life abroad
• Newsbriefs