Two lawmakers are speaking out against the sale of state-owned hospitals to private companies, the latest of which is the P5.69-billion buy-out by the Megawide-World Citi Consortium of the Philippine Orthopedic Center (POC).
North Korean voters are going to polling stations to elect a new national legislature, although they don’t get to choose who to vote for since there is only one candidate per district.
A lawyers’ group has called on the government to resolve with dispatch the most recent murders of judges and legal practitioners, saying that killings done with impunity would have “a chilling effect” on the members of the bar and the bench.
Mindanao’s power woes will not be over anytime soon as full power capacity in the island will come into operation only in 2015 and 2016.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Thursday said she was giving Dennis Cunanan, pork barrel scam witness, the benefit of the doubt on whether or not he also accepted kickbacks.
Coconut farmers unable to pay rent for their farms due to a natural calamity cannot be ejected from the land unless the ejectment is allowed by a court, the Department of Agrarian Reform said Wednesday.
Not all people serving time in prison are guilty. Some of them were either framed or just victims of circumstances.
Batangas Governor Vilma Santos-Recto has no plans to run for higher office in 2016 and might retire from public service, her husband, Senator Ralph Recto told reporters Monday.
Beginning Monday, the government will bring training resources for disaster preparedness to local officials in 17 regions nationwide.
Malacañang favors the creation of a special court to try cases related to the P10-billion pork barrel scam, a spokesperson said Saturday.
Malacañang chose to look on the bright side after the Civil Service Commission (CSC) reported that 67 government service offices failed its 2013 anti-red tape test.
Ukraine’s acting interior minister says Interior Ministry troops and police have been put on high alert after dozens of men seized local government and legislature buildings in the Crimea region.
Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada said he is no longer inclined to face his accuser, Dennis Cunanan in the Senate next week as he expressed doubts over the latter’s decision to have his bank accounts examined.
