Despite President Benigno Aquino III giving the Marcos family's request to bury former president Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani the thumbs down, Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos said on GMA News' "24 Oras" that she approved of Aquino's performance in his first year in office.
Senator Gregorio Honasan on Thursday advised President Benigno Aquino III to better take care of the military amid reports that there are "grumblings" among the young offers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
The United States and the Philippines have urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) to tackle current tensions over the disputed Spratly islands when it meets later this month in Bali, Indonesia.
The rain that fell on Metro Manila Thursday afternoon was not caused by a cyclone but by an isolated thunderstorm, according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA).
The Office of the Ombudsman has junked the separate motions for reconsideration filed by former Agriculture secretary Luis Lorenzo and undersecretary Jocelyn "Joc-Joc" Bolante in relation to the plunder cases recommended against them for their alleged involvement in the P728-million fertilizer fund scam.
On his first year in office, President Benigno Aquino III once again lashed at the Arroyo administration by comparing the government he inherited to a house that is in total wreck, and enumerating the alleged anomalies committed by the previous administration.
A niece of Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu on Thursday asked for P3 billion in damages for the death of her mother in the grisly Nov. 23, 2009 massacre - the biggest damage claim made by a relative of the victims.
Although bothered by the snail-paced trial, relatives of the 57 people killed in the grisly November 2009 massacre in Maguindanao province still lauded President Benigno Aquino III for the positive developments in the case since he assumed the presidency exactly a year ago Thursday.
The Senate blue ribbon committee has summoned former and incumbent officials of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) to next week's series of inquiries into reports that its funds were used to bribe several people in exchange for supporting former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Several bishops who allegedly accepted Mitsubishi Pajeros bought using Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) funds may be sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church for violating propriety and breaking religious vows, an anti-gambling prelate said Thursday.