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Published April 8, 2021, 5:01 PM Opposition Senator Francis ‘’Kiko’’ Pangilinan on Thursday, April 8, said the Philippine intelligence community should focus its attention on what China is doing at the Julian Felipe reef, a part of Philippine territory, and not nit-pick on small entities such as the Senate employees’ union. Senator Francis Pangilinan (Senate of the Philippines / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) should also look into the entry of some four million Chinese nationals into the country since 2017, he added. Pangilinan, p...

By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News Published April 7, 2021 3:31pm Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday said he is now inclined to support the measure seeking to criminalize "red-tagging" after the Senate employees' union was accused of having links with communist rebels. In a text message to reporters, Sotto said that "red-tagging" of the Sandigan ng mga Empleyadong Nagkakaisa sa Adhikain ng Demokratikong Organisasyon (SENADO), a union of employees in the Senate, made him want to support Senate Bill 2121, or the proposed law defining and penalizing red-tagging. "Because of this, I am...

(FILE PHOTO) Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 7) — The Senate president is not taking lightly allegations that some Senate employees are sympathizers of rebel groups. In a message to reporters on Wednesday, Senator Vicente "Tito" Sotto III described as unfounded a social media post by National Intelligence Coordinating Agency director general Alex Paul Monteagudo that said members of the Senate union, the Sandigan ng mga Empleyadong Nagkakaisa sa Adhikain ng Demokratikong Organisasyon (SENADO), were working as the "eyes and ears of the CPP-NPA-NDF." "He sent word saying they are just t...

Published March 17, 2021, 1:48 PM At least 200 academics from universities in the Philippines and abroad jointly signed a unity statement urging the Philippine government to stop the attacks on and killings of activists. “As academics, we are duty-bound and morally obliged to stand against all infringements of basic human rights,” said Academics Unite for Democracy and Human Rights Lead Convener Ramon Guillermo in a statement issued Wednesday, March 17. “Academic freedom cannot thrive in an environment of fear and intimidation, for it rests on teachers’ and students’ unhampered exer...

Lawmaker, ACT slam DILG order seeking names of leftists in public sector enablePagination: false Bayan Muna Representative Ferdinand Gaite said the DILG was an act of "harassment and intimidation." Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 14) — A lawmaker has slammed a letter from the Department of the Interior and Local Government that directs its regional officers to identify and submit names of people who are supposed members of left- leaning groups. Bayan Muna Representative Ferdinand Gaite says the letter dated March 10 was an act of "harassment and intimidation" and that it adds to the ...