More ‘pork’ witnesses to come out – Aquino
Many other Ruby Tuasons are willing to testify against lawmakers accused of pocketing kickbacks from their pork barrel funds, President Benigno Aquino 3rd said on Wednesday. The President was referring...
View ArticleDid EDSA 1986 matter?
Every year around this time in February, we commemorate the 1986 People Power revolution, which had become a morality play of a Martyr’s Widow leading the people to overthrow the Dark Lord. Indeed the...
View ArticleA positive look at negative figures
For the past several weeks, some macro-economic figures have come to light, and they are bothersome to say the least. For one, the country’s unemployment figures – 7.3% as of end-2013, from 7% the...
View ArticleSereno asks magistrates: Stop leaks to The Times
Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno has pleaded with the 14 associate justices of the Supreme Court to stop leaking stories to The Manila Times. According to The Times’ source, Sereno made the appeal when the...
View ArticleRefund first before asking for rate hike, Meralco told
A LAWMAKER on Thursday urged the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) to first complete the refund of P30.2 billion to its customers as ordered by the Supreme Court in 2003 before seeking another power...
View ArticleEx-TRC chief to spill beans on PDAF scam
WILL he do a Ruby Tuason? Dennis Cunanan, the former director general of Technology Resource Center (TRC), who is among those charged in connection with the P10-billion pork barrel fund scam, is now...
View ArticleAquino wants ‘pork’ plunderers convicted
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino 3rd wants nothing less than a conviction for lawmakers and other individuals proven to have plundered public funds, Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda said on Thursday. Read...
View ArticleDismissed cadet no longer included in PMA graduating class
Despite re-investigation orders on his alleged “Honor Code” violations by Armed Forces chief-of-staff Gen. Emmanuel Bautista, Philippine Military Academy (PMA) cadet Jeff Aldrin Cudia will not be...
View ArticleDOTC mulls extending PNR special trips to Calamba
Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya said that the special coaches trips of Philippine National Railways (PNR) may extend to two more towns of Laguna....
View ArticlePeace deal signed to end bloodshed in divided Ukraine
KIEV: A peace deal emerged Friday after talks between Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his pro-European opponents, pointing to a tantalizing sign of an end to the country’s months-long...
View ArticleObama, Putin urge quick implementation of Ukraine deal
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed Friday on the need to quickly implement an agreement aimed at ending the Ukraine crisis. Both leaders stressed...
View ArticleBI ‘kicks out’ rude German tourist
An arriving German tourist was immediately kicked out of the country after he offended two female immigrations officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 2 Friday night. The...
View ArticleVenezuelan leader challenges Obama to talks
CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called on Barack Obama to “accept the challenge” and hold direct talks, a surprise overture made Friday after days of accusing Washington of plotting his...
View ArticleLabor survey rates workers’ basic pay
Workers in the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply industry receive the highest monthly basic pay, a survey by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) revealed. The Occupational...
View ArticlePope to create 19 new cardinals, many from outside Europe
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will create his first batch of cardinals on Saturday, with nine of the 19 coming from South America, Africa and Asia. The new “princes of the Church” will be presented with...
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