PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago has asked the Commission on Elections to ban the showing or airing of election campaign materials in the guise of commercial advertisement for consumer…
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House flexes muscle to amend power law
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Ruling party Lakas Christian-Muslim Democrats has directed all its members in Congress to ensure the amendment of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act to bar power distributors like…
Palace studies amnesty for Moro rebels
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — MORE than six months after the government announced an amnesty for communist rebels, it is now studying a similar pardon for members of the separatist Moro National Liberation…
Gatchalian eyes new airline
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Plastics king William Gatchalian wants to go back to the airline business two decades after he sold Air Philippines to taipan Lucio Tan, who also owns Philippine Airlines….
Jamby wants NBI to examine aunts will
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — SENATOR Jamby Madrigal, fighting for the fortune left by her late billionaire aunt, has petitioned a Makati court to order the National Bureau of Investigation to examine her…
GMA halts tuition increase in state schools
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — PRESIDENT Arroyo has announced that all state universities and colleges will not increase their tuition this year as she asked the Commission on Higher Education to appeal to…
GMA opens flagship resort
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — President Arroyo will formally open today the first phase of a P5-billion resort that is meant to put La Union at the world map of major tourist destinations….
GSIS gets nod to buy $600m from spot market
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Government Service Insurance System, the pension fund for state workers, has received the go-signal from the central bank to buy as much as $600 million from the spot…
Philippine Madrigal Singers set for 2008 command performances in the U.S
Los Angeles, California/Manila, Philippines – The music and magic of the Philippine Madrigal Singers, one of the best choirs in the world, comes to Southern California and Nevada this summer as part…
NBI sees holes in Leviste’s testimony
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Former Batangas Gov. Jose Antonio Leviste has inconsistencies in the narration of the killing of his aide, an official of the National Bureau of Investigation said in court…
Farmers blamed for CARP’s failure
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Farmers themselves are to blame for the failure of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, members of the Senate committee on agrarian reform said yesterday. During a public hearing…
No cops involved in RCBC killings
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Investigators have ruled out the involvement of policemen in the weekend robbery of a Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. branch in Cabuyao, Laguna that left 10 people dead. At…
370,000 jobs await Pinoys in Singapore and Macau
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — As many as 370,000 tourism jobs are available in Singapore and Macau, and many of the hotels and resorts in these tourist destinations are looking for Filipino talents,…
PNP eyes extortion, labor row in bus attack
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — DIRECTOR Geary Barias, National Capital Region Police Office chief, yesterday doubted the theory that New People’s Army rebels were the ones who torched five Victory Liner buses parked…
Enrile dares Jamby to go to court
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — SENATOR Juan Ponce Enrile yesterday advised Senator Jamby Madrigal to go to court if she believes there is a legal basis for her claim that he and other…