Philippine News

House minority abandons impeach try vs. Pres. Aquino
GMA News
The House opposition bloc on Wednesday said it will no longer support an attempt to impeach President Benigno Aquino III for alleged tax fraud involving a government property in Baguio City. House Minority Leader Danilo Suarez said opposition members ...
Impeachment bid vs Aquino junked for lack of evidenceBusinessWorld Online Edition
House minority drops impeach bid vs PNoyABS CBN News
House minority drops bid to impeach AquinoSun.Star

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Bulatlat
Farmers urge SC not to reverse ruling on Hacienda Luisita
Sun.Star
By Virgil B. Lopez OVER 100 farmers trooped to the Supreme Court on Wednesday urging the justices not to bow down to pressure, if any, to reverse the decision favoring the distribution of the sprawling Hacienda Luisita, which is owned by relatives of ...
Farm workers condemn latest attacks, call for land distribution in Hacienda ...Bulatlat
GUARDS BACKED BY TROOPS FIRE SHOTS IN LUISITA / TENSION HIGH IN FARMPhilippine Headline News
Luisita farmers resist move to fence landsCebu Daily News
Business Mirror -Manila Standard Today
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DOLE opposes more holidays
Philippine Star
By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star) Updated February 23, 2012 12:00 AM 0 To avoid loss of earnings for both workers and employers, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday discouraged the declaration of additional holidays.
DoLE warns lawmakers on declaring more holidaysBusinessWorld Online Edition
Labor chief calls for review of national holidaysSun.Star
South Korea eases foreign labor ruleManila Standard Today
Malaya -Business Mirror
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Inquirer.net
PPP schools project attracts 15 firms
Inquirer.net
The Philippine government's Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for School Infrastructure Project aims to build 9332 classrooms in its first phase covering Luzon. The second and third phases cover the Visayas and Mindanao. The Department of Education ...
Gov't set to expand school building PPPBusinessWorld Online Edition
DepEd bats for 9332 new classrooms by 2013 under PPP schemeGMA News
Govt ready to build 30000 new classrooms starting January 2013Business Mirror
Philippine Star
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San Beda starts own probe into hazing, to cooperate with authorities
GMA News
Even as it condemned his brutal death last weekend, the school of suspected hazing victim Marvin Reglos has started its own investigation into the circumstances behind the incident. In a statement, the San Beda College of Law also vowed to cooperate ...
San Beda condemns law student's slayABS CBN News
De Lima orders re-autopsy on hazing victimSun.Star
Hazing fatality a Bedan; phones, shirt yield cluesInquirer.net
Manila Bulletin -The Philippine Online Chronicles
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AFP
Kidapawan cop chief, deputy sacked after jail attack
Inquirer.net
KIDAPAWAN CITY—This city's police chief and his deputy were relieved following an attack on the city jail that led to the killing of three people and the wounding of several others in what authorities said was an attempt to spring a former Moro ...
Moro rebels disown Kidapawan jail attackABS CBN News
MILF: Nothing to do with Kidapawan jail 'rescue' tryGMA News
Jail gunfight in southern Philippines 'kills three'BBC News
BusinessWorld Online Edition -Philippine Star -gulfnews.com
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Bikya Masr
Philippines Resumes Dispatching Maids to all European Countries
CRIENGLISH.com
The Philippines on Wednesday lifted a ban on sending domestic helpers to all European countries as it was able to craft improved safety nets and protection policies for Filipinos who will be hired for the job. The Philippines stopped sending maids to ...
Ban on Europe-bound 'au pairs' lifted–DFABusiness Mirror
Gov't lifts au pair ban to EuropeABS CBN News
Philippine embassies to intensify absentee voter registrationInquirer.net
GMA News -Philippine Information Agency -Bikya Masr
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Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Defense dismisses Secretary De Lima's testimony as mere hearsay
Inquirer.net
By Matikas Santos MANILA, Philippines—The defense team on Wednesday said Justice Secretary Leila De Lima's testimony during the proceedings was like hearsay. Lawyer Karen Jimeno said De Lima was not personally present when justices of the Supreme Court ...
Day 22 Corona trial highlights: De Lima takes witness standGMA News
Cuevas also issued watchlist orders as justice secretaryABS CBN News (blog)
De Lima Pins Down CJManila Bulletin
Cebu Daily News -Philippine Star -Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (blog)
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Ibuna's lawyer claims Aleli's marriage to Ignacio Arroyo null and void
Inquirer.net
By Nancy Carvajal MANILA, Philippines—Alicia “Aleli” Arroyo was not the legal wife of the late Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio “Iggy'' Arroyo whose body is scheduled to arrive on Friday evening from London, following an agreement between three parties ...
Battle over Iggy's remains gets murkierABS CBN News
Palace will not intervene on issue regarding Iggy Arroyo's remainsGMA News
Ibuna gets custody of Iggy remainsPhilippine Star
Yahoo! Philippines News -Visayan Daily Star
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Palace Hopeful On GMA Arraignment
Manila Bulletin
By MADEL R. SABATER and JEAN FERNANDO MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang said Wednesday that it is optimistic that there will no longer be postponements on the arraignment of the case of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Bartolome: All systems go for GMA's arraignmentBusiness Mirror
Security stepped up for Gloria Arroyo arraignment in PasayCebu Daily News
Tight security readied for Arroyo arraignment ThursdayGMA News
Inquirer.net -People's Daily Online -Sun.Star (blog)
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The NextWomen Business Magazine
Imelda's brother, top official of Marcos, dies
gulfnews.com
By Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau Chief Manila: Benjamin “Kokoy” Romualdez, 81, the younger brother of former first lady and now Congresswoman Imelda Marcos, former envoy to the United States and China during the time of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, ...
Benjamin 'Kokoy' Romualdez dies; 81Inquirer.net
Imelda's brother Kokoy passes away at 81BusinessWorld Online Edition
Imelda brother Kokoy diesPhilippine Star
GMA News -ABS CBN News -Sun.Star
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For Enrile, Honasan, Marcos, No Rancor Remains
Manila Bulletin
By MARIO B. CASAYURAN and HANNAH L. TORREGOZA MANILA, Philippines — They belonged to opposing camps in February 1986. Twenty-six years later, Juan Ponce Enrile, Gregorio Honasan, and Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., three of the main players in the ...
JPE as we celebrate EDSA 26Yahoo! Philippines News (blog)
Pacete: The EDSA GauderySun.Star

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Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
DoJ chief: Corona favored Arroyo on TRO
Inquirer.net
By Tetch Torres MANILA, Philippines – Justice Secretary Leila De Lima took the witness stand Wednesday and testified on allegations that Chief Justice Renato Corona tried to influence the Supreme Court to bar the Department of Justice from stopping ...
Justice Sec. De Lima testifies at Corona impeachment trialGMA News
De Lima: CJ had hand in TRO allowing GMA to leaveABS CBN News
Arroyo failed to comply with SC TRO's conditions - De LimaPhilippine Star
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (blog) -Journal Online
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Gov't lifts au pair ban to Europe
ABS CBN News
MANILA, Philippines – The ban on au pairs bound for all European countries has been lifted, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Wednesday. This after new "guidelines on the departure of au pairs to Europe" agreed upon by the ad-hoc ...
Philippine embassies to intensify absentee voter registrationInquirer.net
Ban on Filipino 'au pairs' in Europe liftedSun.Star
Philippines lifts 14-year ban on deployment of nannies to EuropeMonsters and Critics.com
GMA News
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Mindanao Examiner
Volunteer's death alarms Red Cross
Journal Online
THE Philippine Red Cross expressed its deepest sympathy and concern for the family of volunteer Benny Balmediano who was killed in an explosion in Kidapawan City Sunday. Benny, along with other Red Cross staff and volunteers, was responding to the ...
Transfer of high risk detainees out of Kidapawan jail pushedPhilippine Star
ICRC airs concern on attack on Philippine civiliansMindanao Examiner
Red Cross worker one of fatalities in Kidapawan jail attackBusiness Mirror

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Zambo Sur mountain turning into graveyard, toxic land
Zamboanga Today Online
ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR – Philippine authorities have expressed alarm over the unabated illegal gold mining activities in the mountain of Balabag in the town of Bayog in the Western Mindanao province of Zamboanga del Sur. Authorities said the rampant use of ...
Mining firm denies hand in holding of media workersGold Star Daily World News
Journalists cry harassment in mining area; mining firm says story fabricatedMinda News
Mining firm denies journalists abducted in ZamboABS CBN News

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JPE as we celebrate EDSA 26
Yahoo! Philippines News (blog)
By Ellen Tordesillas, Contributor By Ellen Tordesillas, Contributor | The Inbox – 6 hours ago As we celebrate the 26 th anniversary of EDSA One, the Filipinos' show of People Power, I look at Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile and can't help but be ...
Pacete: The EDSA GauderySun.Star
Enrile: CJ trial is also 'trying' my patienceABS CBN News

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Transfer of high risk detainees out of Kidapawan jail pushed
Philippine Star
Slain Red Cross volunteer Benny "Daddy Benny" Balmediano, one of the three fatalities in the February 19 attack on the Kidapawan City jail, will be laid to rest February 28. KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines – Notorious bandit Datukan Samad is just one of 16 ...
Kidapawan council wants prisoners transferredBusinessWorld Online Edition
City jail attackedGold Star Daily World News
Police execs axed over jail attackSun.Star

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Antipolo hazing victim's schoolmates condemn death, call for justice
GMA News
Schoolmates of a law student who died while undergoing fraternity hazing rites last weekend in Antipolo city expressed outrage over his death and called for justice as his remains were brought to the school in Manila before dawn Wednesday.
Hazing fatality a Bedan; phones, shirt yield cluesInquirer.net
De Lima Orders Probe On Law Student's DeathManila Bulletin
San Beda law student killed in hazingABS CBN News
Sun.Star
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DepEd: There are classes on February 24, 27
GMA News
There will be classes on Feb. 24 and 27, the Friday before and the Monday after the 26th anniversary of the EDSA-1 People Power revolution. The Department of Education (DepEd) made this clear after getting questions on its Twitter account on whether ...
People Power Revolution 26th AnniversaryTempo
Palace: No political rally for EDSA 26th anniversaryABS CBN News

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