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To decongest prisons and prepare inmates for the life outside prison walls, prisoners whose jail term is about to end are now being moved to military camps a maintenance workers before they are finally released, President Benigno Aquino III said Friday.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile on Friday said that the impeachment cannot disqualify Senator Franklin Drilon from the proceedings, even if defense is accusing him pf bias against their client.
A Manila regional trial court issued on Friday a 72-hour temporary restraining order preventing the Department of Justice form conducting a preliminary investigation against dismissed National Bureau of Investigation chief Magtanggol Gatdula.
The Philippines is considering a US proposal to deploy surveillance aircraft on a temporary, rotating basis to enhance its ability to guard disputed areas in the South China Sea [also called West Philippine Sea], Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said Friday.
Once an expanded military cooperation with the United States is in place, the Philippines expects the aggressive nature to China in dealing with the disputed Spratly Group of Islands will stop, a Malacañang official said Friday.
The activist group Akbayan on Friday urged the Office of the Ombudsman to investigate Supreme Court spokesperson and administrator Atty. Midas Marquez for alleged cases of corruption and abuse of office.
About 60 health professionals and workers from various Metro Manila health facilities staged a lightning rally on Friday inside the Department of Health compound to protest the government’s cut in their subsistence benefits effective this month.
(Updated 7:42 p.m.) Heeding the move of Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago for an advanced list of witnesses and documentary evidence for the impeachment tiral of Chief Justice Renato Corona, prosecution on Friday filed its manifestation to call at least 90 persons to testify in court — including SC justices, Court Administrator Midas Marquez, doctors of former President Gloria Arroyo and journalists — and present 200 documents in the proceedings.
The Department of Education made a last-minute reminder Friday to parents to enrol their children — especially out-of-school children and learners with disability — to register early for the coming school year.