The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be conducting its final dry run or field testing of the controversial precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines on Monday, one week before the May 13 midterm elections.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has reported being 90 percent ready to conduct the May 13 balloting, and said the lack of source code for the voting machines was the only problem left unsettled.
Lawmakers are optimistic that Congress will finally end the gridlock on the divisive reproductive health (RH) bill after some leaders of the Catholic Church have given their inputs to the substitute measure introduced by Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman.
A Catholic prelate who is an expert in the laws of the Church said on Tuesday that priests and lay leaders in the Diocese of Parañaque City would be facing a long battle to remove their own bishop whom they have accused of misuse of funds over P3.3 million.
Candidates hoping to get the coveted blessing of the El Shaddai Catholic charismatic movement will have to reveal their SALN first before they get the backing of the influential sect.
He could just have been “passing by” the mall, President Benigno Aquino III said of his controversial political adviser who was photographed apparently purchasing pirated DVDs, amid an outcry for Ronald Llamas to be either sanctioned or fired for violating the law.
The Department of Tourism has launched a new tourism campaign that would help the country get a larger share of the tourism market. It’s one that answers the often asked question by local and foreign tourists alike: “Why should I go to the Philippines?”
President Benigno Aquino III in his New Year’s message called on Filipinos to refrain from using firecrackers to usher in 2012.
The Department of Justice and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) released a joint order on Monday setting in motion a new inquiry into allegations of massive fraud in the 2004 and 2007 national elections. Joint Order No. 001-2011, signed by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and Comelec Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr., created a fact-finding team [...]
Former Maguindanao election supervisor Lintang Bedol has been placed under government custody as of Monday, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines on Monday said that the seven bishops linked to the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office fund mess were ready to accept responsibility for their actions and to face the consequences should these be proven unlawful, anomalous and unconstitutional but at the same time gave the assurance that these were done “without malice”.
FRIENDS and family of the late journalist and professor Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan marked the 40th day of her death by holding a run on the same highway where her life was cut short. Estella was killed on the evening of May 13 when a speeding bus rammed into the taxi she was riding on along [...]
MANILA, Philippines – A Customs collector assigned to a sub-port in Cagayan de Oro has filed for a 30-day leave of absence to give way to a query arising from the alleged entry of hot cars and luxury motorcycles in his area of responsibility, according to Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez. Alvarez said Friday that Lowell [...]
