Sunday,Feb 25 2007, 07:20:52 AMCoco-Loka!

GMANews.tv — Can a small-town boy stop the abuse of big-time funds?

Driven by a monster typhoon’s destruction of his native Marinduque’s coconut lands, a local boy now working for a major TV network wages a lonely battle for justice.

GMA researcher Ederic Eder’s mother died at sea while delivering his tuition money so he could enroll at UP. That money came from the sweat of his coconut-farming family.

Now a UP-educated professional, he has been researching for years the fate of coconut levy funds that his family paid to the government. Millions of farmers paid the same levy, which was allegedly stolen and used by Marcos cronies to buy companies, including nearly half of the shares in San Miguel Corporation. Read more.

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Sunday,Sep 24 2006, 05:36:17 PMShowbiz Linggo

Ibinandera ng palabas sa TV kahapon ang pinakaunang pahayag daw ni James Yap tungkol sa pagbubuntis ng asawang si Kris Aquino–na para bang ito na ang pinakamahalagang kaganapan sa bansa sa linggong ito.

Pero ang balitang nakapagpaalala na tumatanda na ako ay ang pagpapakasal nina Mark Anthony Fernandez at Melissa Garcia. Teenager ako noong panahon ng kasikatan ng mga Gwapings na kinabilangan ni Mark Fernandez–kasama sina Eric Fructouso at Jomari Yllana. Lagi nila noong kapareha si Abby Viduya, na kalauna’y naging si Priscilla Almeda.

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Sunday,Sep 24 2006, 05:33:24 PMAng Mamamahayag at ang Pagbabago

Para pa rin sa mga estudyanteng naghahanap ng mga talumpati, narito naman ang pananalitang binigkas ng kaibigan at ka-Tinig kong si Alexander Martin Remollino sa Media Summit na isinagawa ng UP College of Mass Communication Student Council noong Setyembre 22, 2006.

Naka-post din ang piyesang ito sa blog ni Alex, ang Our Thoughts are Free, at sa Indymedia Philippines. Muling ko itong ipinost dito nang may pahintulot ng may-akda.

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