THE same driving force that inspired one Filipino- Australian to start up a ground-breaking business in Canberra has turned him to road cycling : The concept of helping people at the lower rungs of the marketplace and society .
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JANUARY 2017 VOL 1 , N0 4
LIKE WORK , LIKE PLAY
A quest to lift people in different packages
THE same driving force that inspired one Filipino- Australian to start up a ground-breaking business in Canberra has turned him to road cycling : The concept of helping people at the lower rungs of the marketplace and society .
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SEVEN YEARS AFTER MASSACRE , KILLERS STILL AT LARGE
32 journalists were among 58 Filipinos who died in a hail of bullets in the town of Ampatuan in Mindanao
FILIPINO-Australian journalists in Sydney and Canberra marked seven years since the massacre of 58 Filipinos including 32 journalists in the town of Ampatuan , Mindanao , the Philippines , seeking justice to their killers .
Through the Filipino Press Group of Sydney ( FilPressSyd ), the journalists called on the Philippine Government to expedite prosecutions which have stalled for seven years .
Authorities have reportedly identified 197 suspects , but only 112 have been arrested . In the meantime four prosecution witnesses have been killed , possibly silenced .
About 81 other suspects , some of them members of the Philippines National Police , remain at large .
Filipino journalist Nonoy Espina described the massacre site as “ a cake of death ; bodies and vehicles piled and squashed into crude mass graves ”.
The Australian Journalists Association ( AJA ) under the Media Alliance is assisting families of
slain journalists . Proceeds from FilPressSyd ’ s annual Media Golf Challenge go to the AJA and through to a fighting fund of the Federation of International Journalists .
Espina said journalists have been “ singled out as a category that can be gunned down with impunity with more than 143 media workers murdered since 1990 and convictions recorded in only a handful of cases ”. •
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