GMA takes oath in hospital
Former president Gloria Arroyo took her oath of office as reelected representative of the second district of Pampanga at the Presidential Suite of the Veterans Memorial Medical Center.Mrs. Arroyo has...
View ArticleJBC postpones Sandigan vote
THE Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) postponed the voting on candidates for the top post at the Sandiganbayan.The council granted the request of Congress to wait for its official representative to the...
View ArticleHalving world hunger by 2015 ‘within reach’ – UN
GENEVA: Despite economic crises and dwindling aid, the United Nations on Monday said huge progress had been made towards meeting the so-called Millennium Development Goals, including its bid to slash...
View ArticleGovt intervention sought to revive Batangas port
Several truckers who have used the Batangas Container Terminal (BCT) lamented that a local trucking association is monopolizing and controlling the movements of trucks in the city.While hesitant to...
View ArticleDOLE women officers to Mideast
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will deploy 13 female officials and one male officer to the Middle East to augment the Philippine Overseas Labor Offices there amid allegations of sexual...
View ArticleNeophytes lead filing of bills
TRUE to her word, neophyte lawmaker Maria Leonor “Lenny” Robredo of Camarines Sur province filed a measure that will institutionalize the full disclosure of all state budget and transactions that is...
View ArticleAquino vows more fighter planes for PAF
CLARK AIR BASE, Pampanga: President Benigno Aquino 3rd on Monday vowed a stronger, well-equipped and modern Air Force before his term ends in 2016.In his speech during the anniversary of the Philippine...
View ArticleKerry pressures China on sea code of conduct
UNITED STATES Secretary of State John Kerry nudged China on Monday to agree a code of conduct to prevent clashes in the South China Sea after the Philippines accused Beijing of a “massive” military...
View ArticleQUEZON CITY SLUM DWELLERS FIGHT POLICE WITH ROCKS, FECES
RESIDENTS of a slum area in Agham Road in Quezon City on Monday hurled rocks, improvised explosives and human excrement against policemen whom they thought were out to demolish their shanties.Reports...
View ArticleChina executes Filipina today
The Filipino woman who was sentenced to die for carrying six kilos of heroin into China will be executed anytime today, according to Vice President Jejomar Binay.The condemned woman’s family talked to...
View ArticleDefeated Ilocos mayor clings to his seat
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: He is already defeated as town mayor in Ilocos Norte and yet he continues to cling to his post claiming he is the rightful mayor after his proclaimed rival’s certificate of...
View ArticleHight Court shoos away American from town post
THE Supreme Court has ruled with finality unseating a municipal mayor who won in the May 2010 polls in Lanao del Norte after the high tribunal found out that he is not qualified from running for any...
View ArticleMindanao no man’s land for Australians
THE Australian government issued a travel advisory prohibiting their embassy staff in the Philippines to travel to three cities-Davao City, Cotabato City and Zamboanga City-in Mindanao (south of...
View ArticleMountain Province rallies vs. NPA atrocity
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: The provincial government of Mountain Province mobilized on Tuesday some 3,000 residents in an indignation rally condemning the recent “atrocious” attack by communist rebels...
View ArticlePartylist lawlessness are false patriots
Dear Sir: It is so disappointing to know that some party list lawmakers like Neri Colmenares and Carlo Zarate are saying. On the issue of US troops being allowed greater access to Subic and Clark,...
View ArticlePartnership or lease
Aman wrote a letter to a woman, proposing the formation of a partnership between them to run and operate a theatre. Among the principal conditions offered were: first, that the woman would have a...
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‘Dead’ bills rise from the grave again
Efren DanaoThe first weeks of every First Regular Session is always marked by a frenetic filing of bills in both the House and the Senate. Some lawmakers file 50 or even 100 bills in one day. This may...
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Instituting an impeccable image of integrity
It wasn’t very PNoy. Amid the current rumors about alleged influence peddling to the tune of P2 million to P20 million by his sister Ballsy and her husband Eldon Cruz, President Benigno Aquino 3rd has...
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Philippine bishops and their Dan Quayle moment
Philippine bishops were recently caught having their “Dan Quayle” moment. Quayle was the Indiana senator and US vice president who got a royal pique at Candice Bergen’s character, a single mom raising...
View ArticleWhen the ultimate price must be paid
There is not much that we as a people can do for that unnamed Filipina drug mule executed by China for drug trafficking except to pray for the eternal repose of her soul.For having committed a most...
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