$10-B projects bared at confab in Tacloban
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Speaker Jose de Venecia gave yesterday assurances that Congress will send the proposed 2005 General Appropriations Act (GAA) for approval by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo within the next 15 days, stressing that a reenactment of the old budget is farfetched.
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ROME (AFP) — Pope John Paul II’s hospital stay "won’t be brief" and it will be weeks before he can speak again following last week’s tracheotomy, a Rome University doctor said in an interview published Sunday.
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Administration lawmakers urged yesterday the government to clarify its position on the Sulu hostilities in light of the armed forces statement denying the claim by the governor of Sulu that the military had forged an informal truce with the loyalists of detained former Moro National Liberation Front chairman Nur Misuari.
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LONDON (Reuters) — Peter Benenson, the British lawyer whose outrage at the jailing of two Portuguese students in 1960 spawned the Nobel Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International, has died at the age of 83.
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Malacañang will return to the drawing board and craft new strategies to mitigate the impact of rising prices of oil products on the transportation sector and the public amid complaints that the R1 diesel discount is no longer enough.
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Yesterday was the hottest day in the country this year.
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The lawyers of former President Joseph Estrada presented yesterday another scholar of the Erap Muslim Youth Foundation, Inc. (EMYF) as its 26th witness at the former President’s ongoing plunder and perjury trial in the Sandiganbayan.
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Members of the House of Representatives yesterday said that the position by the 11 University of the Philippines (UP) economic experts that the value added tax (VAT) hike bill is the economy’s final hope should open the eyes of the senators to pass the measure.
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Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Nene" Q. Pimentel Jr. (PDP-Laban) yesterday warned the Arroyo government of a social backlash over its insistence to push ahead with the increase in the valueadded tax from 10 to 12 percent despite its burdensome effects on the common people who are already reeling from economic hardship.
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