Dec 20 2007
THE SENATE yesterday ended hearings on the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) and will finalize recommendations on the controversial treaty during the Christmas break, Senator Manuel A. Roxas II yesterday said in the weekly forum ?Kapihan sa Senado.?
Dec 20 2007
THE PRESIDENTIAL ANTI-SMUGGLING GROUP (PASG) yesterday confiscated 81 questionable luxury cars in Makati City.
Dec 20 2007
KORONADAL CITY — A full-blown dispute has erupted among tribal members and a group of small-scale miners over a gold-rich village in T’boli town, South Cotabato in the last few days, officials said yesterday.
Dec 20 2007
A BILL SEEKING MAXIMUM PENALTIES for the illegal importation, manufacture and possession of explosives and accessories or chemicals used for the manufacture of explosives was passed on third and final reading in the House of Representatives last Tuesday.
Dec 19 2007
THE GOVERNMENT will insist on citing the Constitution as basis for determining the ancestral domain of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) even if the proposal caused the collapse of the talks of the two parties last weekend.
Dec 19 2007
A HOUSE bill was filed by several lawmakers yesterday which seeks to require graphic health warning on cigarette packages.
Dec 19 2007
COTABATO — Police in Cotabato City has arrested an Egyptian man allegedly plotting a bomb attack on Christmas day.
Dec 19 2007
DESPITE DEFERRING to January the issuance of a formal report, the Philippine National Police (PNP) yesterday said it is standing pat on the gas blast angle that shook the Glorietta 2 mall in Makati City.
