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 MBJ on August 29, 2010
The estimated 1,000 kilos of cocaine bricks which were thrown overboard by the crew of a vessel off Samar province in the Visayas in late 2009 came from Colombia, the chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has disclosed.
Posted in News, Region | Tagged cocaine, Colombia, drug lords, Hong Kong, pdea, South America, visayas |
By MBJ on August 29, 2010
Residents and friends, estimated at more than 1,000, joined the family in burying on Saturday the dismissed police captain who was slain in Monday’s botched rescue attempt of 22 Hong Kong tourists whom he had held hostage in Manila.
Posted in Nation, News | Tagged burying, Hong Kong, hostage-taker, luzon, manila |
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 MBJ on August 24, 2010
Peace talks with the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) could resume before the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on September 9, the chief government negotiator disclosed on Friday.
Posted in Nation | Tagged Constitution, Kuala Lumpur, malacanang, milf, moro islamic liberation front, noynoy, peace process, peace talks, philippine supreme court, University of the Philippines |
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 MBJ on August 23, 2010
A senior official of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Sunday insisted that amending the 1987 Constitution is vital to attempts to bring peace to strife-torn Mindanao. Mohagher Iqbal, the chief of the MILF’s “deactivated” peace panel, warned there would be no genuine end to the Mindanao conflict if amending the Constitution, also known as Cha-cha or Charter change, does not come into play.
Posted in News, Region | Tagged cbcp, Constitution, malacanang, milf, noynoy, philippine supreme court, Ramadan, University of the Philippines |
By MBJ on August 21, 2010
Share tweetmeme_style = ‘compact’; ARTICLEURL The Philippines observes on Saturday the 27th anniversary of the martyrdom of the late opposition senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Junior but his son and namesake who is now the country’s president, has requested that he be allowed to have “private moments” to mark the occasion, a Malacanang official said on [...]
Posted in Headlines, Nation | Tagged Aquino, dictatorship, malacanang, marcos, martial law, martyrdom, Ninoy
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 MBJ on August 20, 2010
A Filipino lawmaker, the scion of an influential family, was granted bail on Thursday by a Hong Kong court after spending more than one month in jail following his arrest for alleged illegal drug trafficking.
ABS-CBN News reported from Hong Kong that the court allowed Congressman Ronald Singson of Ilocos Sur province in Northern Luzon temporary liberty after posting bail equivalent to $130,000.
Posted in Nation | Tagged abs-cbn, Chavit, drug trafficking, gloria macapagal arroyo, Hong Kong, joseph estrada |
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