“Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan hindi makararating sa pinaroroonan ” (He who does not know where he came from, will never reach his destination). – Popular Filipino saying adapted by Jose Rizal. By Ted Alcuitas I wrote this article a day after the Aquino assassination. I pitched it to the editor of the Winnipeg […]
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Here’s how the Winnipeg Free Press covered the event. Interviewed by police is Arthur Dizon, one of the members of the August Twenty One Movement (ATOM). The other person carrying the placard is Marcelino Principe who also participated in yesterday’s (September 7, 2016) rally in Vancouver against the burial of Marcos at the Libingan ng
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Vancouver, B.C. Filipinos say no to Marcos burial By Ted Alcuitas A small but determined group of Filipinos showed their opposition to the impending burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ remains at the country’s Hero’s Cemetery or Libingan ng mga Bayani. The Vancouver rally at the World Trade Centre, is one of many similar
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Vows to eat Islamic militants alive Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to personally tear apart and eat Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants, in a bloodthirsty vow of revenge for deadly attacks,reports Yahoo News. “They will pay. When the time comes, I will eat you in front of people,” Duterte told an audience of Filipinos late
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How can a plunderer get a hero’s burial while petty criminals are shot and dumped in the streets? Opinion Miguel Syjuco The New York Times Sept. 6, 2016 MANILA- Mornings in the Philippines reveal bodies dumped outside slums. Averaging 13 a day, nearly 2,000 in the last two months, the bodies are hung with cardboard
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By: Boying Pimentel @inquirerdotnet INQUIRER.net US Bureau 02:42 AM September 6th, 2016 The leader who instigated a bloodbath that has killed 2,000 Filipinos wants to honor a dictator who murdered 3,000 and tortured tens of thousands more. It’s a troubling, challenging time. But also a time of resistance and struggle. On September 7, Filipino
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Obama snubs Duterte By Ted Alcuitas President Barack Obama canceled a planned meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, in a rare diplomatic rupture that follows an outbreak of tensions between two close allies over the Philippines’ new drug war, The Wall Street Journal reports. The White House said last week that Mr. Obama was
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Al Jazeera A blast has ripped through a night market packed with customers in President Rodrigo Duterte’s home city of Davao in southern Philippines, killing at least 12 people and wounding 60 others. A presidential spokesman said on Friday that the blast took place at the open-air market in Davao City, 960km south of the capital,
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Press Release Montreal, QC. (August 31, 2016) – Rita S Karakas, President & CEO of Canada World Youth and Leoncio B Evascco Jr., Cabinet Secretary of the Republic of the Philippines, agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between The Philippines National Youth Commission and Canada World Youth to resume Youth Exchange programmes. The
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Inquirer, August 27, 2016 ILOILO CITY, Philippines—An Iloilo businessman and his wife were shot dead early Monday at the port in Caticlan, Aklan province two days after Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa confirmed that Melvin Odicta was the drug lord in Iloilo popularly known as “Dragon.” The port is the jump-off point to
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