It has been more than a year since the notorious Hacienda Luisita massacre on November 16, 2004. Twelve picketers and two children were killed and hundreds of workers badly injured when 1,000 police ...

Thousands of farm workers in the Philippines are facing another bitter episode in the decades-long struggle for agrarian reform on the vast sugarcane plantation known as Hacienda Luisita. The most ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to break up the sugar estate owned by the president's relatives and distribute it to thousands of farmers following decades of unrest ...

MANILA, Philippines >> The Philippine Supreme Court has ordered vast sugarcane plantation lands owned by relatives of the president to be distributed to thousands of farmers under a government land ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank) on Thursday clarified its position regarding the recent Court of Appeals (CA) decision that orders a P28.49 billion just compensation ...

IN THE next few days, for the first time in over a year, workers will enter the mill at the centre of Hacienda Luisita, one of the Philippines' biggest sugar plantations. As they do, they will pass a ...

Examining the SC's decision on Hacienda Luisita requires sifting through PR, propaganda, sloganeering, and their intersections – various levels of unspeak that, as Orwell notes, affronts not only ...

MANILA, Philippines — In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court in the Philippines ruled unanimously Tuesday to break up the rambling estate owned by the family of President Benigno Aquino III, ...

Amid the sugarcane fields of Hacienda Luisita, Coral Cambing Elementary School (CCES) continues to shine as a model of collaboration and resilience. From its be ...

At least 300 more farmers refuse to pay for their lots, saying the government should award the lots under the agrarian reform program for free MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Agrarian Reform ...