Senator Teofisto Guingona III on Thursday filed a petition in the Supreme Court asking the tribunal to declare null and void libel penalty provisions in the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 that he said violated basic constitutional rights and threw the nation back to the dark ages.
The ghost of ousted Chief Justice Renato Corona haunts the reputed front-runner for the vacant position.
President Benigno Aquino risks demoralization in the judiciary if he breaks tradition and picks an outsider to replace ousted Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Like the rest of the country, Malacañang was taken aback by the decision of Judge Jesus Mupas of the Pasay City Regional Trial Court (RTC) granting the petition for bail of former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
The president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Thursday said that the majority of the prelates supported peasant demands that the agrarian reform program be completed as mandated under the law in two years, not in four years according to a new Malacañang timetable.
Saying he was fighting for judicial independence and the rule of law, Chief Justice Renato Corona on Thursday warned that under President Benigno Aquino III the country was heading toward “one-man rule.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) on Thursday filed in the Department of Justice a P12.32-million tax evasion case against Jesus Santos, one of the lawyers of former First Gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo.
The Philippines will seek clarification from Saudi Arabia about the latter’s announcement that it would stop granting work permits for Filipino domestic workers, Malacañang said Thursday. Philippine officials will also look for other markets for its workers in the event that the freeze, announced in Riyadh on Wednesday, is put into full effect, Presidential Spokesperson [...]
MANILA, Philippines—It’s done. The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) elections are effectively postponed. After the House of Representatives on Tuesday ratified the bill to postpone the polls that the Senate approved late Monday, all that is needed is for President Benigno Aquino III to put his signature on the document. House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte [...]
