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11.12.09

Visiting Forces Agreement, US Military, Extrajudicial Killings, Philippines

The United States Congress has withheld the US$2-million military aid to the Philippines in 2010 due to human rights concerns.

11.10.09

Mobile broadband still lagging in Philippines

Majority of mobile users are poor and cannot afford 3G subscriptions. 3G handsets are also costly. -- Philippine Reader

11.10.09

Philippines eyes record 600,000 T rice tender

Philippine rice imports (600,000 tonnes this December 2009) will drive up rice prices globally.

The world's largest rice importer is securing stocks after storms damaged croplands in the main rice growing areas about a month ago.

11.09.09

VFA a ‘hidden agenda’ in Hillary's visit to RP - Miriam

(Updated 9:57 p.m.) Lobbying to retain the controversial RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement – even at the expense of Philippine sovereignty - looms as the hidden agenda of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to the Philippines this week, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago said on Sunday.

Santiago, who chairs a congressional oversight committee on the VFA, said the former US First Lady may ask President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to disregard the Senate resolution seeking for a review or abolition of the agreement.

11.09.09

‘Make HR agenda at meeting with Arroyo,’ Fil-Ams urge Clinton

Filipino-American human rights advocates have urged US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to make human rights part of the agenda when she meets with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo this week.