3 wounded in grenade blast in Baguio City
By Celest R. Flores, Isa Avendaño
Three men were reported wounded after a grenade exploded in Melvin Jones Grand Stand, Burnham Park in Baguio City Sunday morning, a radio report said.

Three men were reported wounded after a grenade exploded in Melvin Jones Grand Stand, Burnham Park in Baguio City Sunday morning, a radio report said.

House majority leader Neptali Gonzales II is pushing for a nominal voting on the controversial Reproductive Health bill.

Former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo returned to work Tuesday at the House of Representatives. This is the first time after nearly eight months of detention at the Veterans’ Memorial Medical Center that the lawmaker has attended a session at the Batasan Complex.

Lawmakers supporting the controversial Reproductive Health Bill belittled Tuesday the withdrawal of support for the measure by members of the minority bloc.

Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Sunday said he won’t attend President Aquino’s State of the Nation Address on Monday.

House majority leader Neptali Gonzales II on Monday urged Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. and Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile to speak to President Benigno Aquino III about amending the 1987 Constitution before the third State of the Nation Address (SONA).

The Presidential Security Group inspected the House of Representatives on Monday in preparation for President Benigno Aquino III’s third State of the Nation Address on July 23, 2012.

The motive behind the K to 12 program is good but we need adequate funding and training for teachers, a lawmaker said in an interview over Radyo Inquirer on Monday.
A 3.4-magniture earthquake shook parts of Masbate province early Thursday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).

Three security aides of Banco Filipino’s Bobby Aguirre were shot dead by still unidentified assailants Saturday night, RADYO INQUIRER reported on Sunday.

Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and boxing champion, now Saranggani congressman Manny Pacquiao, are among the representatives with the most absences at the House of Representatives, a Radyo Inquirer 990AM report said Thursday.

The Department of Agriculture is appealing to the public to eat fruits that are grown in the country, which are better in taste and quality compared to imported fruits, a Radyo Inquirer 990AM report said Thursday.

People are rushing to bus terminals this Thursday, hoping to get to their homes in the provinces in time for Christmas.