ANGELES CITY, Philippines – Farmer leaders in Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac are filing a petition to claim all 4,915 hectares of the sugar estate recently awarded to them by the Supreme Court ...

MANILA, Philippines - Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano yesterday ordered 727 hectares of Hacienda Luisita, the sugar plantation in Tarlac owned for a long time by the family of former ...

The 6,000-hectare Hacienda Luisita sugar plantation is owned by the Cojuangco family, of which President Benigno Aquino is the leading scion. When his mother, Corazon Aquino, assumed the ...

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos on Monday released almost 219 hectares (ha) of farmlands within Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac province and condoned up to P12.1 million in dues that more than ...

The country’s rich families maintain control over 107,639 landholdings, including the Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita. As of August 2014, more than 700,000 hectares of agricultural land have ...

By Ambala’s count, a total of 1,063.47 hectares of hacienda land has been illegal converted into non-agricultural uses. Some of these parcels of land are now titled to Luisita Realty Corporation ...

Workers took up the offer of stocks to the newly-corporatised Hacienda Luisita estate in lieu of the redistribution of 4,900 hectares of land. By manipulating the accounts, the Cojuangcos ...

HACIENDA LUISITA, Philippines—About 812 hectares, or 20 percent, of the portion of this sugar estate covered by agrarian reform had been raffled off by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) ...

More than one million hectares of agricultural land, including the Hacienda Luisita plantation estate owned by the President and his relatives, have to be distributed to farmer-beneficiaries before ...

told the Star that the burning of the 300-hectare sugarcane plantation was resorted to so that "the family of President (Aquino) and the HLI (Hacienda Luisita Inc) management could put the blame ...

This week the country commemorates the tragic shooting of protesting farmers on January 22, 1987, an incident better known as the Mendiola massacre. Along with the Hacienda Luisita massacre of ...