By ASHZEL HACHERO Malaya Nov. 15, 2007 OPPOSITION leaders yesterday expressed hope Malacañang would not use the Tuesday night explosion at the House of Representatives to declare emergency rule. “We…
(Updates and corrections by TonyoCruz.com: Basilan Rep. Wahab Akbar died last night at the FEU Medical Center due to blast injuries. Basilan Rep. Henry Tevez was taken to New Era…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 13, 2007 AT least 4,000 Filipinos in Hong Kong signed Sunday a petition calling on President Arroyo to step down. Dolores Pelaez, spokesman of…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 13, 2007 Twelve Filipinos are detained in Singapore jails as part of the island-state’s crackdown on foreigners who present fake return-flight tickets at its…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 8, 2007 NOTHING is sure yet after all with the purported $30 million in fresh military aid from the United States, a lobby composed…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 7, 2007 THREE comfort women, including a Filipina, are now on a campaign tour across Europe to convince the continent’s leaders to raise the…
By JOCELYN MONTEMAYOR Malaya Nov. 7, 2007 MALACAÑANG yesterday expressed confidence the Philippines would be able to comply with the conditions of the US Senate for an additional $2 million…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 6, 2007 THE Philippines will get an additional $2 million in military assistance from the United States but only if the Arroyo government shows…
By REGINA BENGCO and ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 6, 2007 PRESIDENT Arroyo has directed the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Philippine embassy in Islamabad to ensure the safety…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Oct. 30, 2007 THE Department of Foreign Affairs on Monday confirmed that malaria killed Lt. Col. Renerio Batalla, the United Nations peacekeeper who died in…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Oct. 29, 2007 THE Philippines faces a shortage of clean potable water in the next few years but government is addressing the problem wrongly by…
By REGINA BENGCO Malaya Oct. 27, 2007 THE UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings on Thursday said he will remain skeptical on the investigations of the Armed Forces into the…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Oct. 26, 2007 MARKING Intellectual Property Rights Month this October, the government’s Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Task Force (PAPT) on Thursday said it will follow a new…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Oct. 23, 2007 THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations will hold the third in a series of annual disaster simulation exercises tomorrow at the Mandai…
By REGINA BENGCO Malaya Oct. 23, 2007 ANTICIPATING a damaging report on the country’s human rights record, President Arroyo has sent Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita to New York to explain…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Oct. 22, 2007 THE United States and Australia have joined Canada and the United Kingdom in advising their citizens to either exercise caution if they…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Oct. 20, 2007 INVESTMENTS worldwide are at a nearly record high but the Philippines still lags behind Southeast Asian neighbors in attracting foreign direct investment…
By ASHZEL HACHERO Malaya Oct. 20, 2007 AT least eight persons died while 90 others were wounded in a blast shortly after noon yesterday at the Glorietta mall in Makati…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Oct. 19, 2007 A MEMBER of the Hong Kong legislature is leading a fact-finding mission that seeks to shed light on human rights abuses under…
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Oct. 19, 2007 A PROFESSOR at the Ateneo de Manila University is among this year’s recipients of the South East Asia WRITE Award, given to…
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