Binays face
plunder case
A group of Makati City residents on Tuesday brought plunder and graft charges against Vice President Jejomar Binay, his son Makati Mayor Junjun Binay and 23 others over the alleged “unconscionable overpricing” in the construction of an 11-story parking building…
Gov’t didn’t see
the disappeared
It has been seven years since Edita Burgos’ son, farmer-activist Jonas Burgos, was abducted in Quezon City, and despite losing hope that she will find justice under the Aquino administration, she continues to draw strength from family and friends. …
P800M DAP funds
to fix Palace, etc.
Some P800 million from the Disbursement Acceleration Program, which the Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional, was spent for construction, renovation and equipment upgrade in Malacañang.…
Mabini still sounds
painfully familiar
Apolinario Mabini (1864-1903) has been reduced by textbook history into two simplistic titles: “Sublime Paralytic” and “Brains of the Revolution.” These meaningless titles do not do justice to the hero’s life and legacy. …
Emergency powers
for Aquino mulled
The House of Representatives is amenable to granting President Benigno Aquino emergency powers to address the looming power crisis, Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said Tuesday.…
Another impeach
rap vs Aquino
Another impeachment complaint was filed Tuesday against President Benigno Aquino III at the House of Representatives over the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP).…
Photos of ‘scarred’
Claudine real
The lawyer of actress Claudine Barretto, Atty. Ferdinand Topacio, insisted that the photos he posted on Twitter showing the actress wounded and battered were real and not fabricated. …
Malaysia gets
black boxes
Malaysian officials received the two MH17 black boxes from the Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine.…
Crisis Alert Levels
in other countries
Over the past weeks several countries in the Middle East have been rocked by violence, prompting the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to raise Crisis Alert Levels and urge overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to return to the Philippines.…
PH fitness guru
a hit in US
She’s taking Western social media by storm, and she’s 100-percent Filipino. Social media star Liane Valenzuela, a.k.a. Liane V, is a United States-born, 5’3” performer with golden tan skin, long wavy hair, a shapely bod and flat abs. She…
DAP doled out
in small doses
The Department of Budget and Management dispersed the Disbursement Acceleration Program funds to legislators in small doses for indigent patients, scholarships and livelihood programs—a distribution pattern eerily similar to the congressional pork barrel funds before these were outlawed by the…
Impeachment rap
filed vs Aquino
Anti-pork barrel groups on Monday filed an impeachment complaint against President Benigno Aquino III over the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), parts of which were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. …
Pangilinan, Sotto,
Recto top Pulse poll
If former senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan's appointment as Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Agricultural Modernization were a ploy to boost his ratings, then it is probably working.…
Filipino beheaded
by Libyan militias
A Filipino construction worker was decapitated in Libya after being kidnapped by an armed militia group last July 15, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday.…
Binay tops
presidential survey
If the presidential elections were held last June, Vice President Jejomar Binay would have won by a landslide, the Pulse Asia said.…
