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POWERHOUSE The country’s top firms, NGOs and academic institutions sign up to partner for the 2010 election coverage during signing rites at the newly built GMA Network Studios in Quezon City. In photo are from left, lawyer Federico Agcaoili, Philippine Bar Association; Wilson Tieng, Solar Entertainment; Fr. Francis Lucas of Catholic Media Network; Marixi Prieto, Inquirer chair; Gilberto Duavit Jr., GMA Network; lawyer Felipe L. Gozon, GMA Network; Manny V. Pangilinan, PLDT/Smart; Isagani Yambot, Inquirer; Napaleon Nazareno, PLDT/Smart and Ambassador Amable Aguiluz, AMA. JOAN BONDOC

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FAMILY CRISIS Kris Aquino, youngest daughter of ex-President Aquino, arrives at Makati Medical Center past midnight Wednesday. NIÑO JESUS ORBETA

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INQUIRER.net president Paolo Prieto and Sandy P. Romualdez, Philippine Daily Inquirer president and CEO

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BY LAND, SEA AND AIR. Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno takes to water like a politician on the campaign trail. Refreshingly open about his vice presidential ambitions, Puno has been to Mindanao six times in two months. In Zamboanga City, he now goes around in a convoy of cars with sirens screaming; his image on tarpaulin posters are up along the major streets. With Mayor Celso Lobregat (in white), Puno enjoys a ride on one of 11 motorized wooden pump boats. JULIE ALIPALA/INQUIRER MINDANAO

Lawyer Dante Davide, counsel for the three other accused in the Dacer-Corbito murder case, explains why former police officer Cesar Mancao is not qualified as a state witness. INQUIRER.net/Tetch Torres

TO TELL ALL. Acting Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera says the Department of Justice has admitted former police officer Cesar Mancao into the government's witness protection program. Mancao is expected to identify the mastermind in the killing of publicists Salvador ‘Bubby’ Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito. INQUIRER.net/Tetch Torres

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“WE MAY have to go manual,” says Comelec Chair Jose Melo after the withdrawal of the local counterpart of Barbados-based Smartmatic International, which won the bidding for the computerized balloting in 2010. Manual means going back to the tedious counting of the ballots which is open to wholesale cheating (the notorious dagdag-bawas). FILE PHOTOS

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BACK TO WORK. Reporting back to work after a six-day office shutdown due to H1N1 virus, employees undergo the thermal scan procedure before entering the buildings of the House of Representatives. Some have complained of delay in getting to their offices because of the procedure, but they say it’s better to be safe than sorry. INQUIRER.net/LIRA DALANGIN-FERNANDEZ

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PDI NEWSROOM AND INQUIRER.net CLASSROOM AT UP. Inquirer President and CEO Sandy P. Romualdez and Professor Rachel Khan test one of 17 new computers at the UP College of Mass Communications at the inauguration of the PDI Newsroom and INQUIRER.net Classroom whose reconstruction and renovation PDI Inc. paid for. EUGENE ARANETA

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GETTING WIRED. INQUIRER.net President President Paolo Prieto with UP Mass Communications Dean Roland Tolentino and UP Journalism Department Chairperson Rachel Khan during the opening of the INQUIRER.net Classroom and Inquirer Newsroom at the Plaridel Hall on Monday. ABIGAIL KWOK

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RAMOS NIXES CALLS VS ARROYO TRIPS. Former president Fidel V. Ramos refuses to join calls for an accounting of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo\'s foreign trips at a press conference at the NAIA before leaving for Canada for a series of fund-raisers for Gawad Kalinga. ROGER MARGALLO

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TROUBLED PEACE. Mechanized infantry of the 6th ID of the Philippine Army patrol the national highway of Maguindanao after a bomb exploded in the vllage of Kitango, Datu Saudi Ampatuan Monday. RICHEL UMEL/Inquirer Mindanao