Malacañang said on Sunday the possible return of United States military bases to the country as stated by Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin was a “mere scenario in case of an extreme emergency” arising from the Korean crisis.
One of the two lift cranes commissioned by the US Navy has arrived at the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park to begin the removal of a grounded US minesweeper, according to the Philippine Coast Guard.
Detained former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chief Benjamin Abalos is free to go to Taiwan to purchase milkfish fingerlings for his aquaculture business, a Pasay court ruled.
Albay Gov. Joey Salceda on Sunday bemoaned the tepid response of the international donor community to the Philippines’ plea for aid for close to a million victims of super Typhoon “Pablo” (international name: Bopha), saying that countries whose huge greenhouse emissions caused climate change should bear a bigger responsibility for its victims.
The suggestion by a visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) official that text messages be taxed next is “skewed and unfeeling,” and is actually “foreign meddling,” said Sen. Francis Escudero, who vowed to block any bill on the matter.
President Benigno Aquino will seek the support of European countries for a Bangsamoro region in Mindanao during the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem) in Vientiane, Laos, next month.
After failing to sit down with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao at the recently concluded Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) Leaders’ Summit here, President Aquino is keen on plucking a career official from the Department of Foreign Affairs as the Philippine envoy to China.
President Aquino will hold talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of the 20th Asia-Pacific Economic Conference (Apec) Leaders’ Summit here on Sunday and the discussions could cover their countries’ territorial disputes, according to the Philippines’ top diplomat.
President Benigno Aquino III will hold bilateral talks with Chinese President Hu Jin Tao and leaders of Vietnam, Singapore and Chile on the sidelines of the 20th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Meeting in an island here.
Senator Francis Escudero on Sunday advised Malacañang to take it easy on asserting its claim over the disputed Scarborough (Panatag) shoal as the decades-old territorial dispute is unlikely to be resolved within the term of President Benigno Aquino III.
Minority Leader Danilo Suarez on Wednesday agreed with Saranggani Representative Manny Pacquiao’s scathing remarks against President Barack Obama’s support for same-sex marriage.
Left-leaning legislators urged President Benigno Aquino III to take a tough stand against China, but cautioned him against bringing into the picture “a much bigger bully”—the United States.
