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By MARK JOSEPH UBALDE
THE mass termination of some 2,600 employees of the country’s flag carrier is at hand after the Palace upheld the ruling of the Labor department allowing Philippine Airlines (PAL) to outsource its inflight catering, airport services, and call center reservation operations.

By MARK JOSEPH UBALDE, InterAksyon.com
MANILA, Philippines -– Pound for pound king and Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao deleted his Twitter account after several weeks of nasty tweets from his followers.

By MARK JOSEPH UBALDE, InterAksyon.com
EMBATTLED but still looking composed, Ombudsman Merceditas Guetierrez on Tuesday defended herself following the overwhelming vote at the House of Representatives to impeach her. She lamented that her almost 40 years in public service would only end in attacks that were without basis.

FOR leading a bloodless revolt that toppled an aging 20-year-old regime, Corazon Aquino was named by TIME Magazine as one of the 16 most rebellious women in history.

Families of five journalists killed from 2000 to 2008 have filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Committee after the Philippine government failed to deliver justice.

By MHIKE CIGARAL
MORONG, Bataan -- A 20-year-old lending company collector on Wednesday was found dead in a vacant lot in Sitio Minanga, Barangay Mabayo of this town.

THE Philippines filed a diplomatic protest Thursday with China over the intrusion of two Chinese patrol boats Wednesday into Reed Bank in Western Palawan where a seismic survey being conducted by the Department of Energy.

EDSA, from my perspective as then editor-in-chief of the “Mosquito Press” pioneer Ang Pahayagang Malaya of Joe Burgos Jr., broke in the early afternoon of Feb. 22, 1986 when I received a phone call from Malaya’s Malacanang reporter, Butch Fernandez, who said he had heard the distinct “ting-ting-ting” of the teletype machine that receives wire-agency news feed at the Palace press room, indicating an urgent, big development.

By IBARRA C. MATEO
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III continues to support the passage of a bill that will empower Filipino women to make informed choices from various family planning methods, from natural to artificial except abortion, Health Secretary Enrique T. Ona said Tuesday.

HEALTH Secretary Enrique T. Ona on Sunday assured Filipinos and international organizations funding various health-related projects in the country such as the United Nations Millennium Development Goals that the Department of Health is not engaged in the illegal practice of “fund conversion” despite the department’s budgetary problems.

By KIRA PAREDES
MEMBERS of a journalist group in Abra are seeking justice for the recent killing of their colleague Cirilo Gallardo, who was stabbed dead in Bangued. Police found Gallardo’s decomposing body with 13 stab wounds at 7 a.m. on Monday at the diocesan house for priests near the Abra Community Broadcasting Corp. transmitter site in Barangay Bangbangar.

SAN Juan’s new city hall will rise in Barangay Corazon de Jesus that happens to be home not only to Pinaglabanan Park, a historical shrine, but to 103 families of informal settlers as well.