MILF: Team PNoy win good for peace
Among the groups in an apparent celebratory mood as President Aquino’s allies appeared to dominate the senatorial race is the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Among the groups in an apparent celebratory mood as President Aquino’s allies appeared to dominate the senatorial race is the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Testing the effectiveness of President Aquino’s mining policy and the 1995 Philippine Mining Act, the Kankanaey communities of Kibungan in Benguet asked the government to exempt them from large-scale mining during a church-led dialogue with national agencies here on Thursday.
The three-day workers’ strike at the bottling plant of Coca-cola in Sta. Rosa City, Laguna, ended peacefully with an amicable settlement between the workers’ union and the company.
Civic leaders in Cagayan are appealing to President Benigno Aquino III to step in and stop what they said is the continuing harassment that perceived rivals of a powerful political clan in the province are suffering from.
Communist guerrillas have released 12 unharmed persons who have been taken hostage during separate guerrilla attacks here and in North Cotabato, according to officials.
Francisca Odchigue Ponte, 84, mother of Inquirer correspondent Romulo Ponte, died 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday of chronic renal failure caused by diabetes.
Opponents of the plan to privatize the Albay Electric Cooperative (Aleco) scored an initial victory after the regional trial court (RTC) here granted their petition for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop the process of turning over to the private sector the nearly bankrupt cooperative.
Reelected Bulacan Vice Gov. Daniel Fernando said he had again accepted movie and TV projects because he needed to settle debts that he incurred to fund his campaign in this year’s elections.
A former taxi driver has put an end to three decades of the reign of a single political clan in Oriental Mindoro.
Hope springs eternal even under the mine tailings. Levi Lalim, 55, fisherman and leader of his Paracale town’s Samahan ng mga Mangingilaw, is doing his best to save about 40 hectares of coral reef and mangrove forest submerged under red contaminated mud spewed out by mining facilities owned by three Chinese mining firms in Sitio (settlement) Pulangdaga in Barangay (village) Bagumbayan.
Close to 3,000 people from three villages here have fled their homes as clashes between rival Moro rebel groups continued despite a truce.
Even to this day, many Tarlaqueños are wondering why President Aquino did not go all-out for his candidates in his home province the way he did for his senatorial candidates in Team PNoy.
Unable to walk after suffering from a stroke in 2010, Trinidad Inciong-Sayo, fondly called Lola Trining, proved she is never too old to vote and to hope for a brighter future.
