The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has lauded the Philippine government for the conviction of the hired killer of environmentalist Gerry Ortega—the first conviction of an extrajudicial killing since President Benigno Aquino III came to office in 2010.
The present crop of political leaders should emulate the integrity, competence and efficiency of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the first woman prime minister of the United Kingdom, who died recently, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said.
At least 50 representatives of government agencies in the Zamboanga peninsula and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have drafted an action plan to address the heavy influx of Filipino returnees from Sabah, Malaysia.
The Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed from the government service Consul General to Japan Ma. Lourdes Ramiro-Lopez for making false entries in her 1971 and 2005 personal data sheets (PDS).
Former President and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is aghast at President Aquino’s accusations that a conspiracy involving people identified with her administration was behind the excursion into Sabah of the followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III to reclaim the island.
An official of the Climate Change Commission on Saturday asked the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) to assess the damage wrought on the Tubbataha Reefs by the USS Guardian which ran aground on the World Heritage Site in the Sulu Sea.
A top United Nations regional official in Asia and the Pacific has called on both traditional and social media to give more focus and space to water-related issues that have dramatic consequences for humanity.
State prosecutors on Tuesday urged the Sandiganbayan to reject former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) general manager Rosario Uriarte’s motion opposing the cancellation of her passport and those of two coaccused who fled the country after being charged with plunder.
An international human rights organization has scored Justice Secretary Leila de Lima for making “premature” boasts in Washington, D.C. about the Philippine government making significant progress in solving the problem of extrajudicial killings.
September 1979. Somewhere in the desert of Arizona, a group of Filipino freedom fighters had just finished their secret bomb-and-weapons training, courtesy of an American-Vietnam war veteran who shared their hatred of dictators.
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) party-list group will use the second tranche of its Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), more popularly referred to as pork barrel, this year to construct a two-story six-classroom elementary school building on Pag-asa, the largest island in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) occupied by the Philippines.
The party list Alliance of Concerned Teachers will use the second tranche of its Priority Development Fund this year to fund the construction of a two-storey, six-classroom school building on Pag-asa, the largest island in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) occupied by the Philippines.
