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By newsmaster on September 6, 2010
President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino has formed a committee to advise the government panel when it resumes peace talks with the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a Malacanang official disclosed on Sunday.
Posted in Nation, News | Tagged College of Law, malaysia, milf, noynoy aquino, Ramadan, UP |
By newsmaster on September 6, 2010
Police commandos killed a leader of the Abu Sayyaf extremists and two of his men in an encounter on the strife-torn island province of Sulu, a ranking police officer reported on Sunday.
Posted in News, Region | Tagged abu sayyaf, encounter, leader, mindanao, police, sulu |
By newsmaster on September 5, 2010
The embattled chief of the 125,000-strong Philippine National Police (PNP) is stepping down on September 14, or four months before he reaches his mandatory retirement age of 56 in December, the PNP spokesman has confirmed.
Posted in Headlines | Tagged jesus verzosa, pnp, retiring, stepping down, top cop |
By newsmaster on September 4, 2010
President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino on Friday declared September 10, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a non-working holiday nationwide.
Posted in Nation, News | Tagged Eid’l Fitr, holiday, Muslim, noynoy aquino, Ramadan |
By newsmaster on September 1, 2010
A ranking leader of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Tuesday said peace talks with the government could resume either on September 30 or in early October. Mohagher Iqbal, the head of the MILF panel, explained that Malaysia, the broker or facilitator of the talks, will have a week-long celebration of the Eid’l Fitr that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that is to end between September 10 and 12, depending on the lunar calendar.
Posted in Nation, News | Tagged 1987 Constitution, Eid’l Fitr, milf, Muslim, philippines supreme court, Ramadan |
By newsmaster on August 28, 2010
A ranking official in the administration of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has been charged with graft, along with 11 others, by the office of the Ombudsman for their alleged involvement in the purchase of instant noodles worth $75 million for the government’s feeding programme for public school students.
Posted in Nation, News | Tagged BFAD, deped, feeding program, Food Fortification Law, graft, instant noodles, noodle scam, ombudsman, public school |
By newsmaster on August 28, 2010
The youngest sister of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino has accepted the offer of the Department of Health (DoH) to actively join in the campaign against a mosquito-borne disease with the title of “ambassador for dengue prevention,” the head of the DoH announced on Friday.
Posted in Metro, News | Tagged dengue, dengue virus strain, doh, elementary school, kris aquino |
By newsmaster on August 27, 2010
Still unidentified gunmen shot and killed two policemen in uniform and two civilians in a pre-dawn attack Thursday on a passenger bus in Lanao del Norte province in Mindanao, a ranking police officer reported.
Posted in News, Region | Tagged gunmen, Lanao del Norte, mindanao, policemen |
By newsmaster on August 26, 2010
Health ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have expressed grave concern over the rising cases in the “belt of dengue,” a mosquito-borne ailment.
Posted in Health, News, World | Tagged Aedes Aegypti, Asean, dengue, department of health, Health, Western Visayas |
By newsmaster on August 26, 2010
Allies of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo filed an ethics complaint against a militant lawmaker for alleged unparliamentary remarks and disorderly behavior which arose from a scathing privilege speech he delivered in the House of Representatives in early August.
Posted in Nation, News | Tagged akbayan, allies, ethics case, gloria macapagal arroyo |
By newsmaster on August 23, 2010
A police chief of a town in Surigao del Sur province in Mindanao was slain in an encounter with suspected members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA), a spokesman of the Philippine National Police (PNP) reported on Sunday.
Posted in News, Region | Tagged communist party of the philippines, milf, mindanao, npa, pnp, Rebels |
By newsmaster on August 20, 2010
The Philippines and the US signed on Thursday an agreement for a three-year project to combat the alarming increase in the number of human trafficking cases whose victims are mostly Filipino women and children. The agreement was signed by Secretary Leila de Lima of the Department of Justice and Harry Thomas Junior, the US ambassador to the Philippines
Posted in Headlines, World | Tagged ambassador, human trafficking, Secretary Leila de Lima, US, US State department |
By newsmaster on August 20, 2010
President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino on Thursday opposed a bill filed by two women lawmakers to legalize divorce but said he favors couples who are legally separated to remarry.
Posted in Headlines, Nation |
By newsmaster on August 19, 2010
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) remitted a total of $9.082 billion in the first six months of 2010, which represented a 5.9 percent jump over the $8.4 billion recorded for the same period last year, the head of the Central Bank of the Philippines reported.
Posted in Headlines, Nation, OFW News | Tagged asia, canada, central bank, employment, Europe, Italy, Japanese, Middle East, North America, ofw, poea, professional, remittance, Singapore, skilled, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, US |
By newsmaster on August 19, 2010
MANILA – Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has been listed as a “hostile witness” in the massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao province on November 23, 2009, which was blamed on members of a powerful clan identified as her close political allies, according to a private prosecutor.
Posted in Headlines, Nation |
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