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(UPDATE) One of the 25 anti-mining hunger strikers camped outside the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has been rushed to a hospital in Quezon City, organizers said Saturday night.
23:17:10 2009-11-21
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Some 25 hunger strikers, most of them members of the Mangyan tribe, vowed on Thursday to continue their protest in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) central office in Quezon City to press for the cancellation of a big mining project on Mindoro island.
04:58:55 2009-11-20
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An Aeta elementary school student, who had appealed to President Macapagal-Arroyo in June to give her village a school, met the President again on Tuesday this time with tears in her eyes.
06:05:13 2009-11-18
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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources should be investigated for approving the mining applications of three giant mining firms in the Mindoro provinces, a lawmaker said Tuesday.
18:59:21 2009-11-17
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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources should be investigated for approving the mining applications of three giant mining firms in the Mindoro provinces, a lawmaker said Tuesday.
18:23:26 2009-11-17
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Mangyans and priests, supported by bishops, are taking their protest to Metro Manila and will go on an indefinite hunger strike beginning next week to protest mining operations that they fear will destroy a contiguous watershed area in Oriental Mindoro.
21:08:01 2009-11-13
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A policymaking body for an Arabica coffee industry in the Cordillera is contesting the intellectual property rights application of a Canadian firm in using “Ibaloi” as brand name for its products.
22:09:27 2009-11-12
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(UPDATE 2) It was not the Moro Islamic Liberation Front but “original Lumad” from Mindanao that kidnapped Father Michael Sinnott, the Irish missionary himself said Thursday, hours after he was freed by his captors, a month following his abduction.
13:33:21 2009-11-12
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The tribal leader who has been leading a 148-kilometer march of 200 protesters from Quezon to Manila vowed on Tuesday to keep up their opposition to the Laiban dam project.
13:49:12 2009-11-10
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Illegal logging thrives with impunity in Sierra Madre during Christmas and election season, a leader of a mountain tribe revealed.
13:44:48 2009-11-10
