Rep. Liza Maza of Gabriela Women’s Party today pledged her unreleased Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 for the immediate relief and rehabilitation of typhoon Ondoy victims.
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REPRESENTATIVE Rozzano Rufino Biazon (Muntinlupa City) used part of his Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) to secure 1,800 packs containing canned goods and other basic necessities to families affected by flooding. read more »
With the impending roll-out of the Land Transportation Office’s (LTO’s) radio frequency identification (RFID) system on Oct. 1, former Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ralph Recto yesterday said the project should not push through since it did not go though the required legal process. read more »
SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan, Philippines – Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Arturo Lomibao said yesterday that the agency is open to the deferment of the implementation of controversial Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) over concerns of the public. read more »
Human rights militants are worried that the RFID tags are ways of
spying on motorists. Congresswoman Liza Maza warns that the RFID tags
could be used to violate the right to privacy of individuals. She also
fears that military and possibly police spooks—like those sicced on
National Artist for Literature Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera and novelist,
visual artist, and UP professor Dr. Jun Cruz Reyes—would use the data
from the tags against citizens opposed to anti-poor government policies
and critical of the wrongdoings of the Arroyo administration. read more »
MANILA, Philippines – An organization of motor vehicle assemblers and distributors is asking the Land Transportation Office to hold consultations with industry stakeholders before implementing its planned radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging scheme next month. read more »
MANILA, Philippines - The Land Transportation Office has yet to coordinate with the Philippine National Police on the use of the controversial Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, even as a police spokesman said that the technology could help police in solving the lingering problem of car theft. read more »
Rep. Liza Maza of Gabriela Women’s Party yesterday filed House Resolution No. 1429 directing the House Committees on Transportation and Information and Communications Technology to investigate the impending implementation of the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology san wider public consultation and public advisory and which allegedly underwent shady bidding process. read more »
MANILA – Malacañang asked the Land Transportation Office (LTO) Thursday to initiate a wider public consultation and study on the planned implementation of the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. read more »
MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang Thursday asked the Land Transportation Office to go slow on the implementation of a “cutting-edge” technology on vehicle registration in response to complaints raised by motorists and transport groups. read more »
While transport groups were divided over the Land Transportation Office’s RFID (radio frequency identification) microchip program for vehicles, the Philippine National Police said Thursday it will need time to study the system. read more »
A MILITANT lawmaker yesterday opposed the plan of the Land
Transportation Office (LTO) to tag vehicles with microchips using Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) technology which she claimed could
violate the people’s right to privacy. read more »
Car owners will be forced to shell out P350 for each vehicle when they renew their vehicle registration to allow the government to monitor their movement under a proposal of the Land Transportation Office (LTO). read more »
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MILITANT legislator warned on Wednesday that the plan of the Land
Transportation Office (LTO) to tag vehicles with microchips using radio
frequency identification (Rfid) technology may violate the right to
privacy. read more »
MANILA, Philippines - A party-list representative on Wednesday
warned that the plan of the Land Transportation Office to tag vehicles
with microchips could be used as " spy chips’’ to snoop on private
citizens. read more »
“The repressive arm of the Arroyo administration seems to expand its targets of surveillance not only to organizers and leaders of partylist groups, church people, and journalists but now it also includes artists and members of the academe.” read more »
Rep.Liza Maza of Gabriela Women’s Party today questioned the plan of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to tag vehicles with microchips using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology which it claims would enhance and speed up the vehicle registration process while providing the authorities and the public fast identification of vehicles. read more »
ORDINARY folks have launched a fund-raising campaign through collection of junk from their own households to help the senatorial bid of Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza. read more »
The recent alleged beating of Rachel Tiongson, former live-in partner of Deputy National Security Adviser Luis Chavit Singson, hammers home the gains and gaps in the newly enacted Magna Carta of Women (MCW). Feminists now ask: Will the state really use its legal powers and force to punish the rich and powerful, including political cronies and state functionaries, who commit crimes against women? read more »
I was reading last week’s STAR that showed a picture of the battered Che Tiongson, the former common-law wife of Chavit Singson. What a pretty lady, I thought, and read on. She met Singson when she was 18 and he overwhelmed her with his kindness and gallantry. She lived with him and bore him five children. But he was fooling around with younger women, most likely 18 and below (my opinion based on her age when she met him), and finally she said she broke up with him last November. Then one Saturday night Singson walked in on her while she was having dinner with her boyfriend. She was afraid he would shoot her. Instead he beat her up and left her badly bruised. read more »
The militant women's coalition, Gabriela, cries foul over Malacañang's treatment of the controversial case involving deputy National Security Adviser Luis "Chavit" Singson and his former live-in partner Che Tiongson who accused him of physical and verbal abuse. read more »
Gabriela Women’s Party-list Rep. Liza Maza said Palace officials should carefully discuss if they are going to penalize Singson for his actions. “It’s not a private matter. Under the law, it’s a crime,” Maza said, adding that Singson should be held criminally liable.
“We expect from our public officials high moral standards especially in relation to adhering to laws,” Maza added. read more »
A militant lawmaker on Monday strongly criticized Malacanang's soft handling of the charge of battering against Singson by his former partner. read more »
MALACAÑANG yesterday suggested that deputy national security adviser Luis “Chavit” Singson go on leave while settling his problems with his common-law wife Rachel Tiongson. read more »
