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Noli cool to allowing journalists to carry guns

By Pia Lee-Brago | August 11, 2004 - 12:00am

Vice President Noli de Castro said yesterday that the proposal of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to arm journalists as a result of the recent slays of media men is not the answer to the series of unsolved journalists’...

Headlines

EDITORIAL - Open season

August 9, 2004 - 12:00am

For a nation that takes pride in having Asia’s freest press, too many journalists are getting killed in the exercise of their profession. Early yesterday a radio reporter was shot in General Santos City. Jonathan...

Opinion