DAVAO CITY Only two of the 12 prominent Ampatuans implicated in the November 23, 2009 massacre in Maguindanao are not running for any posts in this years elections. More »
DAVAO CITY Only two of the 12 prominent Ampatuans implicated in the November 23, 2009 massacre in Maguindanao are not running for any posts in this years elections. More »
Foreign investors have long complained about the arbitrariness of policies governing business in this country.
MANILA, Philippines - Campaign posters went up and jingles blared at election rallies and motorcades all over the country yesterday as the country’s richest politician and the son of its democracy icon fired the opening salvos in the tight race to succeed President Arroyo.
ANGELES CITY, Philippines – The Armed Forces Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom) said yesterday 10 New People’s Army rebels have been killed in the ongoing running gun battle that started two weeks ago in the forests of Abra, the Mountain Province and Kalinga.
MANILA, Philippines - Three unidentified men, cornered after a brief car chase in a stolen taxicab, were killed after engaging police officers in a shootout shortly after robbing a cabbie of his earnings early yesterday in Quezon City.
While the big guns of established political parties fielding full national slates for the May elections fired their first salvos of the campaign season with full-scale sorties on Tuesday, party-list groups set out on a much simpler grassroots approach, foregoing celebrities and gimmickry.
MANILA, Philippines – Coach Freddie Roach is slowing down WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao's training since he may peak too early for his March 13 fight against Ghana's Joshua Clottey.
MANILA, Philippines - Has luck sided with any of the millions of SuperLotto 6/49 bettors yet?
Senator Manuel Villar Jr. on Tuesday evening capped the first day of his 90-day campaign for presidency with a song number.
Families of the 43 arrested health workers in Rizal province on Tuesday sought protection from the Supreme Court against the government, particularly the military and the police.
Customs cites government's revenue needs; Shell counters that oil supply and price hikes are at stake MANILA, Philippines - The Bureau of Customs (BOC) can now proceed with the seizure of imported raw materials of Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. after the tax court did not favor the country's second biggest oil company's motion for injunction.
MANILA, Philippines - Philippine prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against the head of a powerful clan and 195 others in the biggest and deadliest murder case since the country's World War II war crimes trials.
MANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) - From celebrity-filled rallies to unfurling a giant flag, all the pomp and posturing of the Philippine elections went on display on Tuesday as presidential candidates kicked off their campaigns 90 days before the May 10 elections.
MANILA, Philippines - Suspected members of the New People's Army (NPA) set fire to a cellsite of Globe Telecom in Mindoro Occidental province early Tuesday, police said.
MANILA, Philippines - The government has moved anew the bidding for the lease of its Fujimi property in Tokyo, Japan.
MANILA, Philippines - In a curious decision, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday officially recognized Roberto Pagdangan as the real winner of the 2007 Bulacan gubernatorial polls.
MANILA, Philippines - Business process outsourcing (BPO) specialists lament that they have yet to hear any presidential candidate speak about his or her plans for the sector, saying the disregard is probably because BPOs are not a "political, hot issue."
Forty district representatives, twenty city mayors, and over a hundred local executives from all over the country attended Tuesdays sortie of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD in Antipolo City to officially kick-off the nationwide campaign of its standard-bearer, Gilberto Teodoro Jr.
MANILA, Philippines – Rogelio "Banjo" Barcenilla has something to cheer about next month. National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) president Prospero "Butch" Pichay Jr. said the Arizona-based Barcenilla will finally get his "long overdue" grandmaster title next month.
MANILA, Philippines - Petron Corp. has successfully completed the first phase of its retail network expansion as it managed to open 200 service stations in a year's time, the oil firm announced on Tuesday.
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