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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