Malacañang yesterday said that the ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to Iraq remains in effect as it reminded foreign companies against allowing OFWs from sneaking in the war-torn country due to its dangerous peace and order situation.
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The government resumes today its formal peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and hopes to thresh out contentious issues that have been hampering the formal signing of a permanent peace agreement.
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Trade and Industry Secretary Juan B. Santos leads the distinguished list of guests at the opening of the Manila FAME International exhibit at the World Trade Center Metro Manila in Pasay City today.
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A very influential Catholic Church leader reiterated yesterday his claim that jueteng, an illegal numbers game, is more rampant now than in the previous administration.
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At least four cities in Metropolitan Manila have launched separate campaigns against rabies amid concerns that more dog bite cases could arise as more children take to the streets to enjoy school vacation and escape the summer heat.
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Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chairman Bayani Fernando asked Metro Manila residents yesterday to help the agency’s cleanup efforts by reporting neighbors who indiscriminately dump their garbage in the streets, canals, rivers and other waterways.
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Never trust a stranger with your money.
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The political war in Caloocan City has crept into the academic community, with the president and entire Board of Regents of the University of Caloocan City (UCC) being eased out of their positions.
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A former abandoned street child who struggled hard to survive will be one of those who will take their oath on April 29 as new members of the Bar Association of the Philippines.
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QUEZON CITY – Six students who are members of two research teams of public high schools in Metro Manila are scheduled to leave for the United States early next month to represent the Philippines in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (IISEF) in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay signed sisterhood agreements with four local government units to bolster the city’s development and growth.
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At least 16 of the 24 councilors of Quezon City batted for the revival of the Kadiwa-type stores, particularly in the blighted areas of Metro Manila and other parts of the country.
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Navotas municipal employees will work the full week’s service as the municipal government rejected Malacañang’s Administrative Order No. 117 to implement the four-day workweek scheme to save power and ease financial pressures.
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Lawyers of Vice President Noli de Castro yesterday asked the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) to expedite the resolution of former Senator Loren Legarda’s election protest against De Castro.
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The family of Filipino peacekeeper who was slain while on a United Nations civic mission in Haiti will receive R2.7 million in benefits from the UN, the Philippine mission to the UN in New York announced yesterday.
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PORT DICKSON, Malaysia (Reuters) - Philippine Muslim rebels and their government began long-delayed talks in Malaysia on Monday to thresh out the issue of ancestral land, the biggest hurdle to ending a threedecade insurgency.
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A leader of the opposition group yesterday assailed Malacañang’s reconciliation efforts with the wife of former presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., citing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s call as insincere.
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Five overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Iraq who figured in a failed ambush by Iraqi militants last Saturday had been repatriated by the Philippine government last night, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.
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BIR intensifies drive against tax evaders
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