A political representative of Basilan island in southern Philippines was blasted to death by a massive detonation of a makeshift explosive device at about 8 in the evening yesterday. Congressman Wahab Akbar was fatally injured in the incident that also took the lives of a chauffeur […]
Young girl kill self to escape desperation and poverty
A recent suicide of a very young schoolgirl due to desperate financial straits shocked most of the Filipino nation and caused reverberations of guilt rippling accross the collective national conscience. In the afternoon of November 2, the poor girl hanged herself with a nylon cord in her family’s ramshackle hut after pouring out her bitterness […]