February 4, 2008

Riot Police Arrest Protesters Outside Philippine Education Summit

By Martha Ann Overland

Hanoi

Six people were arrested and at least a dozen were injured last week when riot-police officers broke up a crowd of students who had rallied outside an education conference in Manila to protest skyrocketing college costs in the Philippines, where tuition tripled at public universities last year and shot up even more at private institutions.

"We were out there to protest the current policies of the government, particularly privatization and commercialization of education in the

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