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SEN. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II took the top spot in the people’s three best leaders who should become vice president next year, according to the latest Social Weather Stations survey. Forty percent of the 1,800 adults polled from Sept. 18 to 21 named Roxas, 23 percent chose Vice President Noli de Castro, and another 23

SEN. Benigno Aquino III topped the list of the people’s three best successors to President Gloria Arroyo next year, according to the latest survey of the Social Weather Stations. Six out of 10 adults polled by the SWS from Sept. 18 to 21 named Aquino in answer to the survey question, “Under the present Constitution,

THE number of Filipinos dissatisfied with President Gloria Arroyo’s performance has climbed to 62 percent, resulting in her net satisfaction rating dropping to -38, the latest Social Weather Stations survey said. A -38 net rating is classified as “bad,” the research organization said. The SWS said its Sept. 18 to 21 poll found only 23

SOUTH China Morning Post‘s editorial on disasters in the Philippines: A government’s priority is to protect the well-being of its people. There is no better test of its commitment than when disaster strikes. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s administration has, in this regard, failed time and again. It did so spectacularly with Tropical Storm Ketsana, again revealing

IF elections were held today, in a five-cornered presidential contest, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III  will win hands down with 50 percent of the votes, according to a survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations on  Sept. 5 and 6 in the vote-rich regions of the National Capital Region, Central Luzon and Calabarzon and Pangasinan

From ABS-CBNNEWS.COM: PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s eldest son, Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel ‘Mikey’ Arroyo, on Friday welcomed the filing of graft and perjury complaints against him in the Ombudsman, saying this would give him a chance to respond at the right forum. “I welcome this development and I even thank the group for bringing this issue,

From the PHILIPPINE STAR: THE right of the people to information on matters of public concern is enshrined in the Constitution. Among the public documents covered by the right to know are the official Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth that executive officials and lawmakers are required to file every year. The SALN could

FROM INQUIRER.NET MILITANT government workers have filed with the Ombudsman a graft complaint against Pampanga Representative Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo for not declaring his P63.7-million property in California in his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN). “With the small salary he gets, it is unacceptable that his assets more than tripled,” said Ferdinand

READ news stories on Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo’s and senators’ reactions to VERA Files report that Mikey omitted to declare contributions he received in the 2004 and 2007 congressional elections which he said partly explained his wealth: Malaya: Chiz wants to sic PCGG on Mikey A Philippine Star: Senators want Mikey charged gmanews.tv: Palace

Philippine Daily Inquirer‘s Sept. 6 editorial on Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo’s assets: Mikey’s hideaway To nobody’s surprise, Speaker Prospero Nograles quickly shrugged off the failure of Pampanga Representative Mikey Arroyo, who is believed to have worked behind the scene to put Nograles in the Speakership, to declare in his 2007 and 2008 Statement

PRESIDENTIAL son and Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo continues to be in the news after VERA Files reported a P63.7 million San Francisco Bay property he failed to declare in his 2007 and 2008 Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth. Some of the stories: Mikey Arroyo under fire on YouTube—Philippine Daily Inquirer Malacañang

FOLLOWING are the editorials of the Philippine Star  and Malaya (Sept. 2) and Daily Tribune (Sept. 1) on the presidential sons’ California homes reported by VERA Files. Philippine Star‘s “Because they can”: Following in the footsteps of his parents, Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel Arroyo is now under fire for assets that he reportedly failed to