The Philippines has yet to fully address two of the three maritime issues a European audit team raised back in April, with barely four months to go before the team returns for another inspection.
Former elections chair Benjamin Abalos has petitioned the courts handling his electoral sabotage cases for permission to reschedule his trip to Taiwan for the end of January.
A second court has acted favorably on former Commission on Elections Chair Benjamin Abalos’ request to fly to Taiwan for a few days but he can’t leave just yet since his passport has to be revalidated.
Imagine a biker disrupting court proceedings to send someone a telegram.
“¡Hola! Me llamo Kristine. ¿Como te llamas?” If all goes well, Filipino high school students in a few years will be speaking the language of our forefathers—for most of them anyway.
A hooded man claimed Wednesday he drove former Palawan Governor Joel Reyes and his brother to Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) where they boarded a plane to Vietnam, purportedly facilitated by immigration personnel, to evade prosecution for the murder of environmentalist Gerardo Ortega in January 2011.
More than 300 foreigners, suspected members of a cybercrime and human trafficking syndicate, were arrested in simultaneous raids in Quezon City, Marikina City, and Cainta and Antipolo City in Rizal province on Thursday.
Police are set to file charges against a Chinese national who rented an apartment in Malabon City where an estimated P240 million of suspected “shabu” (methamphetamine hydrochloride) was found late Monday afternoon.
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) announced on Monday it would step up the deployment of aggregate fishing devices in the waters off western Luzon to help local fishermen who were adversely affected by the declaration of a two-month closed fishing season in the disputed Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal.
