How campaign ads catapulted Grace Poe

After Grace Poe topped the 2013 senatorial race, many Filipinos suddenly turned political analysts overnight to share their views on the factors behind her phenomenal rise.

After Grace Poe topped the 2013 senatorial race, many Filipinos suddenly turned political analysts overnight to share their views on the factors behind her phenomenal rise.

Senator Ramon Revilla was expected to train his guns at Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II at a press conference scheduled on Friday in connection with the police cordoning off the Revilla mansion in Bacoor, Cavite, on Election Day on May 13.

The revised general education curriculum (GEC) for college students should be in place by 2016 because some private schools will graduate their first batch of senior high school students by then.

The Manila Police District Office’s water supply is to be restored next week following agreement by the Philippine National Police headquarters to pay for the district’s water bill arrearages totalling P8 million, a high police official said Friday.

Education Secretary Armin Luistro reminded public school officials that no fees should be collected from parents or guardians even on a voluntary basis when public schools reopen on June 3.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has formally cancelled the registration of several partylist groups Friday, which would mean that their votes would no longer be considered.

The Court of Appeals has stopped the nationwide field testing of genetically modified eggplants in the country.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Moro National Liberation Front have signed a peace pact in Matalam, North Cotabato following a series of clashes early this month that displaced over 7,000 persons, a military official said Friday

The Commission on Elections, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC), has proclaimed 14 partylist groups that have won at least one seat at the House of Representatives.

Rains are expected in parts of the Philippines due to a diffused tail-end of a cold front affecting Northern Luzon and intertropical Convergence Zone affecting Southern Mindanao, the state weather bureau said Friday.

Farm workers who are poised to receive parcels of land from the Hacienda Luisita sugar estate may avail themselves of support services from government agencies to boost their productivity, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said Thursday.

President Aquino has signed a law criminalizing the sale of “hot meat,” a potential source of disease for unsuspecting consumers.

Putting its money where its mouth is, the government has released P42 million to the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), which is tasked to draw up the basic law of the proposed autonomous region.