PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — A Makati City court has thrown out the petition of the Department of Justice to cancel the bail of former Batangas Gov. Jose Antonio Leviste, who is charged…
Ex-PBA star jailed for battering newshen, taxi driver
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Former professional basketball player Paul Alvarez was slapped with multiple criminal charges and jailed yesterday for mauling a taxi driver and battering a female reporter in Mandaluyong City….
P55-b investments from Japan seen
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — The Philippines hopes to generate at least P55 billion worth of new investments annually from Japan with the ratification of the economic partnership agreement between the two countries….
BPI’s Search for 10 Outstanding Expat Pinoy Awardees
UP Medical Student, Daughter of Expat Pinoy in Oman Leads BPI’s Awardees on Search for10 Outstanding Expat Pinoy Children Ms. Ma. Trina Asuncion, medical student from UP College of Medicine Intarmed, heads…
Online barangay brings Pinoys closer to home
It’s like being in the Philippines again. That is exactly how Barangay.ph, the Global Filipino Village Online, wants overseas Filipinos to feel once they log on to this website. After all, Barangay.ph…
Rachel Ann Wolfe is ‘Cool’ with new CD & Music Video
It is said that for you to know what an artist is going through, you only have to listen. Nowhere is this idea very much concretized than in the case of Rachel…
RP surplus rose to record $4.54b
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — The Philippines posted a record-high balance of payments surplus of $4.54 billion in the first seven months of the year on higher exports, steady remittances and heavy investments,…
SC sides with developer on ‘flood control’
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Local government units have primary responsibility over flood control and management in their respective jurisdiction, including areas in private subdivisions, according to the ruling of the Supreme Court….
Lady senators doubt Japan deal benefits
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Senator Loren Legarda has raised questions on the benefits the Philippines will derive from an economic partnership agreement with Japan. Legarda, chairman of the committee on economic affairs,…
GMA orders BIR to catch tax cheats, hike revenues
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has ordered the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the local government units to work closely in identifying tax cheats even as a Laguna lawmaker…
RP to have one ID card next year
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — ALL Filipinos will be required to have a common ID card, the so-called unified multi-purpose identification system, by 2008, a government agency said yesterday. The ID card is…
Terrorist hurt in gunbattle with RP troops
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — A TOP Indonesian terror suspect and a Filipino militant were reportedly wounded during a fierce gunbattle with troops on southern Jolo island last week, military chief Hermogenes Esperon…
RP stock market tumble wipes out year’s gains
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — PHILIPPINE stocks tumbled yesterday, erasing the key index’s gain this year, after reports showed that losses on US home loans were spreading and a housing slump was worsening…
18 smuggled cars destroyed
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — The Bureau of Customs tore apart 18 smuggled vehicles using backhoes, but fell short of a Palace announcement that it would destroy luxury cars including a Lamborghini, a…
Yilmaz claims he has reconciled with wife Ruffa
PNS — Mula sa Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), dumiretso si Yilmaz Bektas sa Shangri-La Hotel sa Makati City. Dito siya mamamalagi ng sampung araw. Dumating ng 4:59 PM kahapon si Yilmaz…