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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 |
By MBJ on March 15, 2010
MANILA – A religious leader in Mindanao has appealed to concerned voters in Mindanao not to elect candidates running in the May 10 elections, particularly former president Joseph Estrada, for allegedly blocking efforts to bring peace to the war-torn island.
Posted in Nation | Tagged Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, corazon aquino, Frank Drilon, imam Sheik Jamil Datu Haron Yahya, milf, moro islamic liberation front, Muslim Concerned Citizens, president Joseph Estrada, Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino, Senator Benigno Aquino, Strength of the Filipino Masses |
By MBJ on March 15, 2010
MANILA – A total of 3,500 policemen will be deployed to secure the foreign ministers and other delegates who are to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (Nam) conference in Metro Manila from March 16 to 19, a ranking officer of the Philippine National Police (PNP) disclosed.
Posted in Nation | Tagged department of foreign affairs, Deputy Director General Roberto Rosales, ketsana, ninoy aquino international airport, Ondoy, Parma, Philippine International Convention Center, philippine national police, PICC, pnp, PNP Metro Manila regional command |
By MBJ on March 14, 2010
MANILA – The Philippine Supreme Court (SC) has acquitted a Metro Manila resident who was serving two life terms for statutory rape after he married the victim while in prison.
Posted in Nation | Tagged philippine supreme court, regional trial court, Ronie de Guzman, SC |
By MBJ on March 14, 2010
MANILA – A just-released US State Department report has taken to task the Philippine government for its alleged failure to check unabated graft and corruption in the bureaucracy.
Posted in Nation | Tagged 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, Asean, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, perc, Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, US State department |
By MBJ on March 14, 2010
MANILA – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has invited foreign observers to monitor the coming May elections as she reiterated her vow for a smooth transition to a new government when she steps down from power on June 30.
Posted in Nation | Tagged Anfrel, armm, Asian Network for Free Elections, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, comelec, commission on elections, Director General Jesus Verzosa, house of representatives, Philippine Councilors League, president gloria macapagal arroyo, Vice President Noli de Castro |
By MBJ on March 9, 2010
MANILA – A Philippine Army officer and five suspected members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA), including two women, were slain in an encounter in a remote “barangay†(village) in Negros Occidental province in the Visayas, a military spokesman reported on Monday.
Posted in Nation | Tagged Lakas-Kampi Christian Muslim Democrats, Mayor Jerry Trenas, New People’s Army, Raul Gonzales Junior, Secretary Raul Gonzalez |
By MBJ on March 9, 2010
MANILA – The world-famous Ifugao rice terraces in the Northern Luzon highlands have become the latest victim in the prolonged drought caused by the “El Nino†weather phenomenon.
Posted in Nation | Tagged Cordillera Administrative Region, el nino, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Unesco, United Nations Educatonal |
By MBJ on March 9, 2010
MANILA – A lawmaker-son of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and three of her aides have been denounced for using the country’s party list system as their entry point to the House of Representatives in the coming May 10 elections.
Posted in Nation | Tagged Ang Galing Pinoy, Congressman Teddy Casino, department of education, department of energy, former congressman Prospero Pichay, maria lourdes arroyo, ongressman Juan Miguel “Mikey†Arroyo, president gloria macapagal arroyo, Secretary Angelo Reyes, United Transport Coalition |
By MBJ on March 8, 2010
MANILA – The name of the presidential aspirant disqualified by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for being a “nuisance candidate†will still appear in the official ballots to be used in the May 10 elections, a Comelec official said.
Posted in Nation | Tagged campaign manager Butch Abad, comelec, kilusang bagong lipunan, Liberal Party, New Society Movement, Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, sion on Elections |
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