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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 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 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
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 |
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 |
By MBJ on August 18, 2010
MANILA – Allies of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo are vehemently protesting the ban imposed by the Aquino administration on the use of photos and names of politicians and officials on billboards and tarpaulins in government projects.
Posted in Headlines, Nation | Tagged Aquino, arroyo, house of representatives, malacanang, New People’s Army, noynoy, Washington DC |
By MBJ on August 18, 2010
MANILA – President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino has confirmed that his first foreign trip will be to the US where a meeting with President Barack Obama will be the highlight of his visit.
Posted in Nation | Tagged Aquino, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, dfa, malacanang, mindanao, noynoy, philippines, President Barack Obama, UN General Assembly, US, VFA, Vietnam, Washington |
By SiteRocker on July 21, 2010
Kris Aquino, the youngest of four children of the late global democracy icon president Corazon Aquino, instructed her lawyers to file an annulment suit before she left with her two children for a holiday in the US last week.
Posted in Celebrities, Headlines, Nation | Tagged james yap, kris aquino, kris aquino annulment, kris aquino annulment updates, kris aquino james yap annulment, noynoy aquino, pnoy |
By newsmaster on July 21, 2010
Alberto Agra, official of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is under fire for allegedly failing to act on the reported attempt by members of a powerful and influential clan to bribe a vital witness into recanting his testimony linking them to the November 23 massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao.
Posted in Headlines, Nation | Tagged agra law office, alberto agra, ferrari, filipino businessman, leila de lima, philippines news, pinoy news, villarica, villarica pawnshop |
By newsmaster on July 21, 2010
William Villarica, a Filipino businessman, who owns a chain of pawnshops and drives around with a Lamborghini sports car worth $200,000 and a Ferrari, has been accused of tax evasion for allegedly failing to pay taxes for the past eight years.
Posted in Headlines, Nation | Tagged ferrari, filipino businessman, philippines news, pinoy news, villarica, villarica pawnshop |
By SiteRocker on May 24, 2010
Once released by the Board of Accountancy, probably on the last week of May 2010, as with the previous CPA Board Exams, we will be posting the 2010 May CPA Licensure Examination Results and list of passers here at Bloggista.org. So be sure to bookmark this site and check back often.
Posted in CPA Board Exam, Headlines, Nation | Tagged 2010 may cpa passers, cpa board exam may 2010 passers, cpa board exam passers 2010, cpa may 2010 passers, may 2010 cpa board exam results, may 2010 cpa board passers, may 2010 cpa list of passers, may 2010 cpa passers |
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