PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE farmers belonging to Task Force Mapalad have valid grounds to question before the Supreme Court the constitutionality of the just-approved Congressional Joint Resolution 19 extending the Comprehensive…
RP – case of Catch 22
RP – case of Catch 22 Let us suppose that Malacanang, Inc. has set for its goal-setting priority the whole agenda of going about charter change at the earliest time possible and…
New Year text messaging costs slashed by mobile provider
New Year’s Day traditionally sees the daily volume of mobile phone text greetings spike worldwide, to volumes that range between hundreds of millions, to billions of text messages per country according to…
PGMA under siege
PGMA under siege The rather overzealous move of Malacanang, Inc. to push for charter change in a scheme fraudulent of the Senate’s corporate if proprietary existence should be read as a desperate…
Army blames MILF for blasts
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE military yesterday blamed a rogue commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front for the bombings of two shopping malls in Iligan City Thursday. The twin blasts killed…
Moro rebels’ hand eyed in Iligan blasts
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — BOTH the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces suspect the involvement of Moro Islamic Liberation Front renegade commanders in the deadly bombings in Iligan City and another…
7 out of 10 Pinoys bullish over RP future
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — MALACANANG is on cloud nine amid the latest survey results of Pulse Asia wherein nearly seven out of 10 Filipinos do not believe the Philippines has become hopeless….
PNP tightens security nationwide
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — PHILIPPINE National Police chief, Director General Jesus A. Verzosa, yesterday ordered stepped-up security in Metro Manila and other parts of the country in the wake of the deadly…
Young Cagayan tourist guide inspires Gordon
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — FEELING a bit cold and out of place in his denim puruntong shorts and a simple shirt, 12-year-old Andoy Dalimag seemed more suited for a romp at a…
Anti-climactic US presidency
An anti-climactic US presidency Nothing alters the fact that as soon as votes have been counted, the Americans have spoken – catapulting to power – one Democrat Barack Obama as the 44th…
SWS, GMA and charter change
SWS, GMA and charter change Each time the Social Weather Station (SWS) releases its latest results for some 1,200 respondents across social classes (from A to E) in various geographical locations as…
Nation welcomes its famous son
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE homecoming was a smash hit. From the loving embrace of his three children to the thousands who celebrated his latest victory in an early night revelry, Manny…
A mismatch the other way around — GMA
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — A MISMATCH but the other way around was how President Macapagal-Arroyo described the fight between boxing hero Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya. “Although sinasabi before the…
MILF lauds Sotto over narco-terror issue
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has welcomed the clarification made by Dangerous Drugs Board chairman Vicente C. Sotto III regarding the issue of “narco-terrorism” that allegedly involved…
Bolante charged
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Senate Blue Ribbon Committee yesterday lodged criminal charges against former Agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn Bolante before the Department of Justice for repeatedly snubbing Congressional hearings and giving false…