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.
The National Capital Region Police Office should look into the particular reasons why the debts for the water supply of the Manila Police District grew to millions to the point that it was cut off by its utility service provider, a Philippine National Police spokesman said.
“Toby” Tañada Jr. has contested his defeat as the representative of Quezon’s fourth district, asking the Commission on Elections to credit to him the votes cast for a disqualified candidate that shared his surname.
Two members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines assigned to the Presidential Security Group were arrested after they allegedly broke into an auto shop in Quezon City Thursday midnight and took away P100,000 worth of valuables and a car, police said.
Exuberant over Team PNoy’s rout of the opposition in the last elections, President Benigno Aquino III said Wednesday night he was looking ahead to 2016, but conceded that electoral victory for whomever his administration would support then would hinge on the continuity of his reforms in the next three years.
Boxing icon and Sarangani Representative Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao is still the richest among the members of the House of Representatives, his statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) filed in 2012 showed.
