Loren on love: I’m not a cougar…
By Cathy C. Yamsuan
Do Sen. Loren Legarda’s initials also stand for “loveless?” The better question is, does she even care?
Do Sen. Loren Legarda’s initials also stand for “loveless?” The better question is, does she even care?
Just days after reportedly suffering a mild stroke, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago was diagnosed with a chronic bone marrow disorder that results in low blood cell count, her media bureau said Saturday.
A former high-profile Puerto Rico senator has pleaded guilty to 93 charges, including extortion, money laundering, bribery and perjury.
Two senate aspirants, both women, were guests of the 14th national congress of the country’s largest trade union held in Cebu City.
The announcement came quietly and was almost drowned by the day’s highly charged events at the Senate impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
MANILA, Philippines—Zambales Representative Mitos Magsaysay on Friday said she would not “leave anyone hanging” should she run for senator in the 2013 elections. “I will make sure all affiliations are ironed out,” she said during a Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats’ meeting at the Diamond Hotel Friday. “I will definitely ask permission and talk to them,” she [...]
Senator Gregorio Honasan said “organized hypocrisy” in the country was getting in the way of the nation’s economic progress.
A number of senators are questioning the urgency in the approval of several amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering Act being demanded by the international Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago is absent on the eight day of the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Corona since she is again suffering from hypertension, an indicative she said of a “possible stroke.”
Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. is asking the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to identify and jail the perpetrators behind the online uploading of an intimate video between his deceased brother Ramgen Bautista and his girlfriend, Janelle Manahan.
MANILA, Philippines—A nongovernment organization (NGO) supposedly among the Department of Health’s (DoH) partners in its family planning program has ties to international lobby groups that implicitly support abortion, a senator said. Senate majority leader Vicente Sotto III, the most vocal among those against the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, revealed that the Family Planning Organization of [...]
Hobnob at your own risk. Those cocktails apparently come with a heavy (political) price. Government officials should now be wary of invitations from the US Embassy following embarrassing revelations from purported diplomatic cables released by the antisecrecy website WikiLeaks, many of them based on conversations between American officials and prominent Filipinos, Senator Joker Arroyo said. [...]
A Chinese national who earlier raised an objection to the appointment of Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario showed up Wednesday at a hearing of the congressional Commission on Appointments and got a mouthful from the feisty Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago. Santiago initially berated Chung Hing Wong, a.k.a. Joseph Wong, then cited him for contempt and then [...]
