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 This On: Facebook Twitter Stumble Digg Yahoo Buzz Reddit Gmail MySpace Email Print More Options 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 [...]
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 |
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 19, 2010
MANILA – A loaded bus plunged into a 35-foot (100 feet) ravine while negotiating a sharp curve in Benguet province in the Northern Luzon highlands, killing at least 40 passengers and injuring nine others in what is considered as one of the worst road accidents in recent years, police reported on Wednesday.
Posted in Region | Tagged accidents, benguet, cebu, highway, investigators, Iranian, philippines, vehicles |
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 MBJ on August 18, 2010
MANILA – A Philippine Navy (PN) helicopter with five people on board, including two pilots, crashed in the sea off Zamboanga City in Mindanao, a PN spokesman reported on Tuesday. Lieutenant Colonel Edgard Arevalo said three of the passengers were rescued but the two pilots remained missing.
Posted in Region | Tagged Cotabato City, filipino chinese, kidnapping-for-ransom, maguindanao, philippine navy, Zamboanga City |
By MBJ on August 16, 2010
A radio report from GMA News said the order was issued by the Regional Trial Court of suburban Quezon City, Metro Manila for the arrest of Gerry Salapuddin, the former deputy House speaker for Mindanao.
Posted in Headlines, Region | Tagged Gerry Salapuddin, pinoy headlines, pinoy news, Wahib Akbar, zamboanga bombing |
By MBJ on August 15, 2010
MANILA – Despite the reported “saber-rattling” by the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Mindanao peace process remains on track, a Malacanang official assured on Saturday.
Secretary Edwin Lacierda, the presidential spokesman, said Secretary Teresita Deles, the presidential adviser on the peace process, is confident the MILF will push through with the peace negotiations.
Posted in Headlines, Region |
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 |
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