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A RESOLUTION Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Villafuerte is poised to file seeking to convene Congress into a constituent assembly to amend the Constitution without the Senate and the House of Representatives voting separately pledges that elections would be held next year and the terms of President Gloria Arroyo and Vice President Noli de Castro would

BUSINESS and economic journalist Leticia “Jane” Subang-delos Reyes passed away on March 29. She was 50. She is survived by husband Joy, Malaya editor-in-chief; children Antonio Isabelo, Aida Corazon and Jose Socrates;  parents Dominador and Peregrina; and siblings Ma. Beth and Rebecca and Guy Bourret. Wake will be the University of the Philippines Chapel, Diliman,

VICE President Noli De Castro and senators Manny Villar, Loren Legarda and Francis Escudero are the people’s top recommended successors to President Gloria Arroyo in 2010, according to the latest Social Weather Stations survey. Asked who they think are good leaders who should succeed Arroyo when her term expires next year, 27 percent of the

MARINE Maj. Ferdinand Marcelino is not going on leave from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. Citing “operational commitments,” PDEA Director General Dionio Santiago denied Friday Marcelino’s request for leave of absence filed earlier in the week. Marcelino, head of PDEA’s Special Enforcement Service, sought permission to go on leave after President Gloria Arroyo ordered him

AS presidential son and Pampanga representative Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo continues to push for charter change, Pulse Asia came out with its latest survey results showing that four out of 10 Filipinos are not in favor of amending the Constitution now.   The survey conducted Feb. 2 to 15 with 1,200 respondents showed a big plurality

A SOUTHEAST Asian journalists’ mission has called on the Arroyo government to intensify efforts to prosecute the killers of journalists and arrest the suspected masterminds in the 2005 killing of Mindanao journalist Marlene Garcia Esperat. “We are alarmed by the continuing killing of media workers in the Philippines and the inadequate measures the government is

JOURNALISTS who were arrested, “processed” and detained during the Nov. 29, 2007 Manila Peninsula standoff filed Tuesday their brief before the Court of Appeals as they pursued their appeal on the dismissal by a Makati City regional trial court of their P10 million class action suit against government officials. The journalists said Judge Reynaldo Laigo committed

MARINE Maj. Ferdinand Marcelino, on detail with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, challenged Monday all government officials who are under investigation in connection with the “Alabang Boys” controversy to go on leave as a matter of delicadeza as he himself took a leave of absence following President Gloria Arroyo’s order to have him investigated for

PRESIDENTIAL son and Pampanga congressman Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo confirmed the meeting with former Speaker Jose de Venecia during which they discussed charter change, the Philippine Star reported Friday. Star sought Arroyo’s reaction to a VERA Files report that he and Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez sought in late February to enlist De Venecia of Pangasinan’s

PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo has ordered the filing of bribery charges against State Prosecutor John Resado, who is accused of having been bribed by the “Alabang Boys” to get them off the hook following their arrest by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency last September for drug pushing. Resado wrote the Dec. 2 resolution dismissing

FORMER police Senior Superintendent Cezar Mancao has implicated former president Joseph Estrada and Sen. Panfilo Lacson in the November 2000 kidnap-murder of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported Friday. The Inquirer, quoting from Mancao’s Feb. 14, 2009 affidavit executed in Florida, also reported that Lacson ordered Mancao

By TESSA JAMANDRE THE Philippines will soon initiate border talks with its neighbors and finally confront territorial issues it has long avoided, the most contentious being the dispute with Malaysia over Sabah, now that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has signed the Philippine Archipelagic Baseline Law. The Baseline Law defines the limits of Philippine territory. It is