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By TESSA JAMANDRE EVEN before the diplomatic tension created by the Aug. 23 hostage crisis has subsided, President Beningo Aquino III will have to deal with another strain on the country’s relationship with China: the dormant yet sensitive issue of the contested Spratly Islands. The Spratlys dispute will be high on the agenda when Aquino

DAVAO CITY.–The appointment of former South Cotabato Representative Luwalhati Ricasa-Antonino as the new chair of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) was antedated to August 9 but announced only on September 3, with then incumbent MinDA chair Jesus Dureza verbally told he was out just minutes before the announcement.

FORTY-ONE percent of adult Filipinos expect their personal quality of life to improve in the next 12 months and only 5 percent expect it to get worse, setting a record high score of +36 for net personal optimism, or the difference between optimists and pessimists, according to the Social Weather Stations.

PRESIDENT Aquino today signed Executive order No. 1 creating a Truth Commission that would investigate corruption committed during the administration of President Gloria Arroyo.

BY VICTOR REYES MARINES Col. Ariel Querubin was released yesterday from detention in Camp Aguinaldo and turned over to the custodial care of Brig. Gen. Reynaldo Ordoñez, chief of the Philippine Defense Reform office. The release order was based on the provisional liberty signed by AFP chief Lt. Gen. Ricardo David Tuesday night. Querubin, a

By MINDANEWS ILIGAN CITY.–Civil society leaders in Lanao have appealed to the kidnappers of Noraldin Yusoph, son of Elections Commissioner Elias Yusoph, to “immediately release” the victim. Yusoph, 22 (not 24 as earlier reported), was abducted by still unidentified armed men while praying inside a mosque in Barangay Sabala Amanao, Marawi City. Read More…

MARY Ann Maslog, the woman who delivered a P3-million bribe in Malacanang 11 years ago in connection with a P200-million textbook contract and was on the run for a string of swindling cases in the Philippines and the United States, has finally been arrested.

The woman who shook the nation by delivering P3 million in bribes to Malacañang 11 years ago is wanted in the United States for swindling and is believed to be in hiding in the Philippines.

RESULTS of the exit poll conducted by the Social Weather Stations for TV 5 correctly predicted the winners in the presidential and vice presidential elections, differing only from the June 8 official tally by the National Board of Canvassers by an average of less than 1 percent—0.4 percent to be exact. The exit poll’s final

THE Center for International Law (CenterLaw) Executive Director Romel Regalado Bagares has been awarded a prestigious fellowship  by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of France under its “Programme d’invitation des personnalités d’avenir” ( Invitation Program for Personalities of the Future)

By PAULINE DYCOCO and JONALYN FORTUNO AS Congress convenes for the canvassing of votes today, the House investigation on poll irregularities will proceed as losing candidates continue to present “evidence” of fraud in the country’s first automated elections. The Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms yesterday said it will invite people who allegedly offered to

By LEYTE-SAMAR DAILY EXPRESS TACLOBAN CITY- The Commission on Elections in Eastern Visayas is preparing to hold special elections in Barangay Buenos Aires in Pagsanghan town in Samar on Saturday. Samar Elections Supervisor Corazon Montallana said the event will be closely watched by the contending parties because it will determine the eventual winners.