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Bongbong denies talks with PCGG
By Christina Mendez
The Philippine Star
VIGAN, ILOCOS SUR , Philippines - Nacionalista Party senatorial candidate Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. denied reports that his family has reopened talks with the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) over P140-billion ill-gotten wealth.
Marcos [...]
Continue Reading →PMP bets vow review of flawed laws
By Jose Rodel Clapano
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Senatorial candidates of the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), led by Senate President Pro Tempore Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada, vowed yesterday to review the controversial Oil Deregulation Law, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act [...]
Continue Reading →JBC nominates Corona
By Edu Punay
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Senior Associate Justice Renato Corona and three other contenders for chief justice are in the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC)’s shortlist to be sent to President Arroyo tomorrow.
The eight-member collegial body led by retiring Chief Justice Reynato [...]
Continue Reading →Arroyo eschews use of gov’t vehicles on stump
By Tonette Orejas
Central Luzon Desk
GUAGUA, PAMPANGA—No government-owned vehicle was seen in the two-hour motorcade of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo here on Saturday when she campaigned for the second district seat of Pampanga in Congress.
Still, 14 members of the Presidential Security [...]
Continue Reading →Ex-Arroyo adviser heads MWSS
By TJ Burgonio
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has tapped her former political adviser, Gabriel Claudio, to chair the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) despite his apparent lack of qualifications, a former solicitor general said.
A brother of errand boy Eugenio “Udong” Mahusay, [...]
Continue Reading →Villar his own worst enemy
By Amando Doronila
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The fall in the poll ratings of Sen. Manuel Villar accelerated during the last two weeks of April when two issues exploded to derail his presidential campaign.
The first was the news story on April 23 that Villar put [...]
Continue Reading →Lawmakers to Gonzales: Just shut up
By Jess Diaz
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Congressmen want Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales to just keep his mouth shut if he has nothing positive to say about the May 10 elections.
“He should put up or shut up,” Cagayan de Oro [...]
Continue Reading →Name names or quit, Gonzales told
By Christine O. Avendaño
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales is fomenting instability with his claim that cheating to favor two presidential candidates has begun, Senators Rodolfo Biazon and Aquilino Pimentel said Friday.
The two senators demanded that Gonzales, who also serves [...]
Continue Reading →Villar: Survey timing suspect; Legarda: It’s infiltrated, for trending
By Michael Lim Ubac
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MALOLOS CITY, Philippines—Manuel Villar has questioned the timing of the latest Pulse Asia survey on presidential preferences showing him and Joseph Estrada tied for second place after Benigno Aquino III.
“Why did they [start [...]
Continue Reading →RICHARD J. GORDON: Step up to the plate, swing that bat
By Cathy C. Yamsuan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
(First of a series)
During a debate on the Manila campus of De La Salle University, Sen. Richard Gordon waves a thin black and white contraption roughly the size of a notebook. [...]
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