Malacañang described the 9-3 win of Team PNoy in the Senate race, as well as the overwhelming victory of administration candidates in local polls, as a resounding endorsement of President Benigno Aquino III’s ‘straight path’ agenda.
Myanmar’s leader has set up a committee to review political prisoner cases “to grant them liberty”, state media said Thursday, in a rare direct acknowledgement of dissidents in the nation’s jails.
The Atimonan massacre will go down in history as the Army Special Forces’ “finest” hour. They killed 13 “criminals” without incurring a single casualty in a one-way shoot-out.
A plan to overhaul Mexico’s public education system has been ratified by 18 of the country’s 31 states, allowing it to be enacted by President Enrique Pena Nieto, officials confirmed Wednesday.
Incoming Philippine National Police Director General Alan Purisima on Sunday vowed to continue the reform programs of his predecessor, Director General Nicanor Bartolome.
President Benigno Aquino III in his State of the Nation Address on Monday said that the changes and reforms that Filipinos had been yearning were now common under his administration.
Myanmar’s president held his first meeting with Karen rebels on Saturday, officials said, as the government intensifies efforts to bolster peace with the country’s oldest insurgent group.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi hailed a “victory of the people” but warned against triumphalism after her apparent win in elections seen as a test of the regime’s burgeoning reforms.
Malacañang on Thursday said that President Benigno Aquino’s high trust and satisfaction ratings show that the public is feeling the effects of the administration’s programs against poverty and corruption.
Myanmar is striving for a quick end to Western sanctions with a dramatic series of reforms after decades of isolation, analysts say, and the strategy is beginning to bear fruit.
ONE OF THE convenors of Reform ARMM Now (RAN) has been receiving threats through mobile text messages from an anonymous sender, warning him of harm if he continued being vocal in support of President Aquino’s agenda to reform the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Dr. Darwin Rasul III, president of Bangun! (Rise!) which is [...]
Beleaguered Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez on Wednesday said he intends to finish the year with the “highest tax collection in the history of [the] Bureau of Customs,” if he is still in his post by that time. Alvarez also said that he had written to Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima—who was the one who invited him [...]
