The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has been asked to act with dispatch on the petition for disqualification filed against Raida D. Papandayan, a candidate for mayor of Tubaran, Lanao del Sur so the...

Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral Sunday said it is likely that the Philippines will send a second medical team to augment existing humanitarian efforts in quake-shattered Haiti. In an interview, Cab...

An association of nearly 1,000 lawyers has pledged to support the senatorial bid of Raul Lambino. Lawyer Galileo Angeles, president of the Lawyers for Accountability, Transparency, Integrity and Good...

Nacionalista Party President and standard bearer Senator Manny Villar expressed satisfaction Sunday over the passage of Senate Bill 3561 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act, granting additional benefi...

Congressional allies of Liberal Party standard bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III Sunday ganged up on another rival in the presidential race by assailing his decision to abandon the c...

Makati Vice Mayor Ernesto Mercado Sunday asked the Makati Regional Trial Court to re-raffle to a new judge the petition for injunction filed by Councilor Jejomar Erwin "Junjun" Binay Jr. aga...

COTABATO - Two town councillors were shot dead in an ambush in the southern Philippines, police said on Sunday, adding the violence could be linked to May national elections. Corazon Florida and Dind...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 January) – There are several ways of adopting a “State- Sub-state relationship” in the Philippines: by amending the autonomous region provisions of the Const...

Konsult Mindanaw (KM), a project conducted by representatives from 10 academic institutions in Mindanao commissioned by the Bishops-Ulama Conference last year to conduct community dialogues on peace, ...

Mindanawons consulted during the focus group discussions (FGDs) conducted by Konsult Mindanaw last year cited, among others, the problems posed by warlords and proliferation of guns, Fr. Albert Alejo,...