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HEALTH Secretary Enrique T. Ona said Wednesday the increase in Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the Philippines is alarming and requires a more focused approach to reverse it.

A QUEZON City regional trial court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of bus driver Daniel Espinosa charged in the death of journalism professor and VERA Files trustee Lourdes “Chit” Estella Simbulan after he was a no show at his arraignment.

COTABATO CITY--No sufficient evidence.
The City Prosecutor’s Office in Kidapawan City has dismissed due to insufficient evidence the complaint filed against three police officers of North Cotabato who were accused of torturing suspects in the bombing of a bus that left nine people killed in October last year.

NEW cases of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the country reached an all-time high of 204 in July this year, the highest number of new cases recorded by the Department of Health (DOH) in a month to date.

By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
FORMER US Ambassador to the Philippines Kirstie Kenney refused to comment on the secret cable message on then presidential candidate Benigno Aquino III whom she allegedly referred to as “diffident” and “unassertive.”

EVEN government officials have now joined media practitioners and civil society organizations in urging President Benigno Aquino III to certify as urgent the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill, which has failed to make it to his list of priority bills.

By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
AFTER uncovering the lack of due diligence in the 2009 procurement of three overpriced helicopters by the Philippine National Police , Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said the whole government then might have committed an error in the deal.

By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
SENATOR Antonio Trillanes IV accused former Philippine National Police chief Jesus Versoza of being the most at fault for the 2009 purchase of three overpriced choppers.

By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
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AN official of the Philippine National Police who is part of the committee overseeing the purchase of three helicopters in 2009 said they were deceived by the firm that sold them the overpriced aircrafts.

By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
A MEMBER of the Philippine National Police (PNP) inspection team admitted he was aware that two of the three “overpriced” helicopters had already been used in the past, but refused to say anything about it because he wasn’t asked.

By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
DESPITE predictions that President Benigno Aquino III's sophomore State of the Nation Address (SONA) will be peppered with anti-Arroyo sentiments, the 47-minute speech of the president did not directly address his predecessor.

By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
IS THE imported rice stored by the state’s National Food Authority still safe for consumption?

By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
JOSIE was startled when she accompanied her husband Efren at the Philippine Heart Center Emergency building early Thursday morning.

By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
A PRIVATE prosecutor in the Maguindanao massacre case will oppose the move of Zaldy Ampatuan for a "hospital arrest."

By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
WITH less than a week before President Benigno Aquino III delivers his sophomore State of the Nation Address, advocates of the Freedom of Information bill on Tuesday called on the administration to fulfill its promise of transparency in government.

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
HARDLINERS in the Chinese Military Academy are raring to teach China’s neighbors “a lesson” for intruding into the South China Sea, which they consider part of their national territory, a Chinese Southeast Asian expert said.

By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
NESTOR Rivera was very upset when he saw Davao mayor Sara Duterte making a human punching bag of his fellow court sheriff last week.

AMID renewed tensions in the disputed South China Sea, the Philippine military is batting to revive the concept of an anti-communist collective defense of Southeast Asia to enable the country to enter into a leasing arrangement of patrol boats with the United States.