World

PITTSBURGH | 30 – 09 – 2009 | Filipino-Americans from New York and New Jersey, under the banners of BAYAN USA and the International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS), participated in last weekend’s “National March for Jobs”, the first to a week’s worth of protest actions addressing the upcoming G20 Summit in Pittsburgh. They were joined by hundreds of trade ...

CANADA | 23 – 09 – 2009 | To mark the 37th anniversary declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) Canada member organizations are holding rallies, study sessions, coffee house discussions, public fora and photo exhibits in different cities in Canada. Throughout the week, BAYAN Canada member organizations will be holding events in different cities under ...

MANILA | 07 – 07 – 2009 | To thwart terrorism, identity theft, and perhaps even blacklisting runaway workers, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) will begin taking photographs and fingerprints of visa applicants to the oil-rich kingdom. Prince Khaled bin Saud, Saudi Foreign Undersecretary, said authorized biometrics would receive visa applications on behalf of Saudi embassies and missions.

USA | 07 – 07 – 2009 | The White House and members of Congress must move quickly on enacting a just and humane immigration reform  package that will reunite families, reinvigorate the economy, and remove the term “illegal or undocumented immigrants” from the dialogue in this country. Ethnic media, which reaches over 60 million adults in the United States, ...

INDIA | 05 – 07 – 2009 | The Bengali daily Sanbad Pratidin of 27 June 2009 carried a front-page news item which clearly shows that US intelligence agencies and the Indian space research centre, the ISRO are very much involved in this war declared by the central and WB state government against the people of Lalgarh. The report is ...

PHILIPPINES | 03 – 07 – 2009 | Dear friends and comrades, It is with great sadness and grief that we inform you of the death of Comrade Wilson “Ka Wilson” Baldonaza, Secretary General of KMU, at 2:15am yesterday (July 1). He was 57. He is survived by his wife, Lily.

KATHMANDU | 18 – 06 – 2009 | Normal life has been disrupted in Nepali capital Kathmandu and two other districts in the valley on Monday with the bandh called on by Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) cadres. Young Communist League (YCL) and other UCPN-M affiliated organizations called on bandh, protesting against the death of Rajendra Phuyal, the Kathmandu district ...

NEW DELHI | 18 – 06 – 2009 |  A Maoist-backed organization of local tribal people has virtually taken over Lalgarh, an area of India’s eastern West Bengal state, and set fire to police camps and offices of the ruling party, news reports said Tuesday. Hundreds of supporters of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) set fire to police camps in ...

INDIA | 18 – 06 – 2009 | Lalgarh, June 15: Bengal police today deserted Dharampur, leaving the 30-year bastion of the CPM to the mercy of Maoists who unleashed a rampage apparently in the making at least since 2007. The Maoists had a free run of the West Midnapore village through the day, tearing down party and police establishments before withdrawing ...

KATHMANDU | 04 – 06 – 2009 | As a preparation to encourage left parties’ polarisation, the Unified CPN (Maoist) has intensified unification procedure with the fringe leftist parties. The Maoists has intensified official unification process with the leaders who had left the CPN (ML) some months ago. Maoist leaders Mohan Vaidya, Dinanath Sharma and Barsa Man Pun responsibile for ...