HOUSE SPEAKER Feliciano “Sonny” R. Belmonte, Jr. has asked congressmen to attend the last few session days in a bid to pass the Freedom of Informa
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Read MoreMANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) - Sen Ralph Recto resigned on Monday, October 15, as chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee. Recto said h
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Read MoreMANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) - A new autonomous political entity (NAPE) called "Bangsamoro" will soon be part of the Philippine political map, as t
Read MoreThe Philippine government and Muslim rebels are closing in on a peace deal after nearly 15 years of violence-interrupted talks, a potential landmark
Read MoreThere is both good news and bad news in the 2012 SWS Survey of Enterprises on Corruption, the 10th in a series from 2000, that tracks the state of p
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The House of Representatives was expected to approve on second reading late last night the proposed P2.006-trillion national b
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Read MoreBUSINESSMEN see the fight against corruption as having made “radical progress” but both the government and private sector need to take the campaign
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The Sandiganbayan has issued an arrest warrant against former Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage Systems (MWSS) administrato
Read MoreRUSSKIY ISLAND, Vladivostok—President Benigno Aquino returned to Manila on Sunday without meeting Chinese President Hu Jintao for much-anticipated b
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines – President Benigno Aquino III has received his highest net satisfaction rating since he assumed his post in June 2010, said the
Read MoreThe newly named Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P. A. Sereno (Chief Meilou to her close friends) personifies President Aquino’s twin ideals of “kung wal
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