A GROUP of media practitioners light candles as they remember their colleagues who died during the Nov. 23 Maguindanao massacre last year. At least 57 people, 37 of them journalists, were slaughtered by gunmen in the town of Ampatuan in Maguindanao province. Mark Navales

GROUPS supporting the striking farm workers of Hacienda Luisita yesterday asked both Houses of Congress to probe a reported plan of Hacienda Luisita Inc. to supply sugar to a Chinese softdrink manufacturer. In a statement, the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) appealed to Senate President [...]

SEN. Pia Cayetano yesterday welcomed the landmark ruling of a United Nations (UN) committee that held the Philippine government accountable for the controversial dismissal by a local court of the Karen Vertido rape case five years ago. Cayetano said the Senate committee on youth, women and family relations, “will seriously take into consideration” the recommendations [...]

THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has released an artist’s sketch of the second suspect in the Sept. 29 blast in front of De La Salle University that left more than 40 people injured. The second suspect, who reportedly pointed a .45 caliber pistol at the group of men who mobbed grenade-thrower Anthony Nepomuceno, was [...]

MORE than 2,000 containers of motor oil worth more than P1 million were seized by operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) during a series of raids on seven establishments in Manila and Pasay City. A report reaching the office of NBI Director Magtanggol Gatdula said raided were: the establishments located on 622 V. [...]

OWNERS of business establishments in a parcel of government land along IBP Road in Quezon City are up in arms following a move of a high-ranking city hall official to demolish their structures to allegedly pave the way for road construction and drainage improvement. The National Government Center (NGC) Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Association Inc., [...]

NAGBABALA ang Department of Health (DOH) sa publiko na iwasan ang pagbili ng mga pagkaing kalye sa loob at labas ng sementeryo kasabay ng paggunita sa Araw ng mga Patay. Ayon kay Health Secretary Enrique Ona, makabubuting magdala na lamang ng sariling pagkain at tubig upang makaiwas sa mga posibleng sakit na makukuha mula sa [...]

HUMINGI ng pang-unawa  ang Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) sa publiko at makiisa kaugnay sa pagsasara ng pipe line ng First Philippine Industrial Corp. o FPIC, bunsod ng tatlong buwan ng problema sa oil leak, sa West  Tower Condominium, sa Brgy. Bangkal, Makati City. Ayon kay MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino, kasalukuyan na nilang pinag-aaralan ang [...]

NAHAHARAP sa blangkong pader ang pulisya kaugnay sa pagkakadiskubre sa bangkay ng British national na tadtad ng saksak sa loob ng tirahan nito sa Las Piñas City kamakalawa ng umaga. Duguan na nakalupasay ang biktimang si Jennifer Jane Isherwood nang madiskubre ng kanyang asawang si Kevin Earnest Isherwood at yayang si Jennifer Casamayor, dakong 6:30 [...]

TINUTUGIS ng mga awtoridad ang kilabot na Dugo-Dugo Gang makaraang makulimbat ang mamahaling alahas na nagkakahalaga ng P2 milyon na  ibinigay ng isang katulong sa Lungsod Quezon kamakailan. Kinilala ni Supt. Constante Agpaoa ang katulong na si “Norie” (hindi tunay na pangalan), 17, na inireklamo ng biktimang si Grace Rosal, 39, may-asawa,  at nagtatrabaho sa [...]