SWS: crime victimization rises to 7.6% but 2017 average a record-low 5.6%
VICTIMIZATION by any of the common crimes cited by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) rose 1.5 points from 6.5% in September last year to...
Aquino, Abad, Garin charged for election spending on Dengvaxia
By Minde Nyl R. Dela Cruz
THE Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) and former Department of Health (DoH) consultant Francis Cruz on Friday, Feb....
Sol-Gen: Ombudsman’s impeachment solution to impasse on Carandang’s fate
SOLICITOR-GENERAL Jose C. Calida in a statement on Friday suggested Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales’s impeachment as “an obvious solution to the seeming impasse” over the...
Lawyers say police report on ‘arrest’ of NDFP consultant ‘fake news’
HUMAN rights lawyers laughed off as a “false and cheap propaganda stunt” a police claim on Friday, Feb. 2, that they had captured another...
Weekend road repairs in QC and Caloocan
THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will undertake road reblocking and repairs of roads in Quezon City and Caloocan City this weekend,...
Former Senate leader maintains stand on Sabah
Former Senate president Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr. on Thursday maintained the Philippines' long-standing claim over the state of Sabah, when sought for comment about a statement...
Legal experts, local execs divided over ‘Cha-cha’
By Camille A. Aguinaldo
LEGAL EXPERTS and local government leaders bared a sharp difference in views in Thursday’s Senate hearing on Charter change.
Local officials called...
Endorse UN inquiry into drug war, HRW urges gov’t
THE PHILIPPINE government should “urgently support” a United Nations (UN)-led investigation into the killings in its war on drugs, New York-based advocacy group Human...
Construction of LRT extension to Cavite possible by midyear
By Patrizia Paola C. Marcelo
Reporter
LIGHT RAIL Manila Corp. (LRMC) may start by midyear the construction of the Light Rail Transit (LRT)-1 extension to Cavite.
LRMC...
Communist consultant Baylosis nabbed for firearms possession
By Arjay L. Balinbin
A CONSULTANT and peace talks panel member of the communist group National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) was arrested last...
Parreño chosen acting Comelec chair
AL A. PARREÑO has been chosen to become acting chair of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) when his predecessor, Christian Robert Lim, retires on...
AirSwift expands El Nido services with links to Davao, Puerto Princesa, Tagbilaran
AIRSWIFT TRANSPORT, Inc., an Ayala-owned boutique airline, is expanding its routes to and from El Nido, Palawan with the launch of flights from Puerto...