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Censure rejected

Manila, Philippines – Instead of getting censured, Kaya Natin, a non-government organization (NGO) supporting Team PNoy candidates, deserves praise for distributing gift certificates worth P1,000 each to several thousand public high school students for them to purchase school supplies last March. But Team PNoy Senate candidate Rissa Hontiveros’ comment to the Kaya Natin program... 

Mobile phones help bolster Uganda’s fight against HIV

KAMPALA (AFP) – Stella Nayiga clutches her mobile phone as she describes the messages that she received punctually every morning and evening for over a year, reminding her to take her antiretroviral (ARV) drugs regularly. ”The text messages would come twice a day and were saying things like ‘Dear friend, please take care of yourself’ and when you got them you knew... 

Robbery angle in Geertman’s killing

The Philippine National Police (PNP) said yesterday that there has been no indication so far that Dutch missionary Willem Geertman was a victim of extra-judicial killing.  Read More »

Syria violence kills 62 – NGO

BEIRUT (AFP) – At least 62 people, more than half of them civilians, were killed in violence across Syrian on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 35 civilians were killed in military operations in the central provinces of Hama and Homs, as well as in Idlib province in the northwest and in Daraa in the south.  Read More »