All banks in San Juan now required to put up CCTV 11/08/2007 A new ordinance has been approved by the San Juan City Council requiring all banks in the City to put…
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2 battalions will secure today’s Trillanes mutiny hearing
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — INVESTIGATORS yesterday presented the “mystery van” that was seized from the wife of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Dec. 8 inside police headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City….
House pushes new Cha-Cha plan
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE House of Representatives will start hearing three proposals to amend the 1987 Constitution today. The committee on constitutional amendments, headed by Rep. Victor Ortega (La Union), will…
Cop hunted for blast in Batasan
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — A FORMER member of the Traffic Management Group assigned in Mindanao is now being hunted for his role in the November 13 Batasan bombing that killed four people…
Let’s stay out of each other’s way — PNP to media
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Philippine National Police yesterday welcomed the Commission on Human Right’s move to amend its rules of engagement to prevent a repeat of its row with media during…
RP economy grows despite political woes
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — FOR more than 20 years, the Philippine economy has been held to ransom by political bickering and a succession of failed coup attempts, but there are signs that…
Recruiters thank GMA
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — RECRUITMENT agencies deploying Filipino senior carers (caregivers) to the United Kingdom thanked President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for looking into the predicament of our Filipino OFWs with British Parliamentarians during…
GMA saves neck of condemned OFW in Kuwait
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Ranario snatched from hangman’s noose; death sentence commuted to life FILIPINO overseas worker Marilou Ranario was snatched from certain death after Kuwaiti Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday…
P10m for Trillanes putsch
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE financiers of last week’s failed revolt in Makati released more than P10 million to pay the “warm bodies” who were supposed to join various rallies in the…
20 lifeterms for Abu bandits
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — FOURTEEN members of the Abu Sayyaf were jailed for life for kidnapping a group of tourists at the Dos Palmas resort in Palawan and killing five of their…
Neri to face Senate inquisitors
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Commission on Higher Education chief Romulo Neri has agreed to stop playing hide-and-seek and appear before the Senate to save his agency’s proposed budget for next year. Neri…
Tan revives Victorias bid
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Tanduay Holdings Inc., the liquor unit of taipan Lucio Tan, is seeking to increase its control of Victorias Milling Co. Inc., a company official said yesterday. Tanduay president…
SEC clears Cebu Pacific’s P15-b initial public offering
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday approved the P15-billion initial public offering of low-cost carrier Cebu Air Inc., the airline unit of conglomerate JG Summit Holdings Inc. Cebu…
QUEEN ROCK MONTREAL & LIVE AID DVD
On 15 Dec. 2007, Evolution Ltd. will release two incredible DVDs capturing the incomparable Queen in their pomp as the world’s biggest band at a sold out show in 1981 at Montreal’s…
Durano leads ‘Pen’s’ re-opening
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — TOURISM Secretary Joseph Ace Durano will lead the re-opening of The Peninsula Manila today—four days after renegade soldiers launched a coup attempt at the hotel and forced it…