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TWO out of three voting-age Filipinos are against amending the Constitution to allow President Gloria Arroyo to continue as the country’s chief executive after her term expires on June 30, 2010, according to the Social Weather Stations. The SWS, which conducted the survey in the first quarter of this year, said the proportion is about

By TESSA JAMANDRE    THE Philippines has filed before the United Nations a claim over Benham Rise, an extinct volcanic ridge off the east coast of Luzon, beating the May 13 deadline for states to submit claims over their extended continental shelves. The Philippine delegation deposited the claim with the UN Commission on the Limits of

THE Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday removed the Philippines and three other countries from its list of noncooperative tax havens. The OECD said the Philippines, Costa Rica, Malaysia and Uruguay have officially committed to cooperate in the fight against tax abuse and to propose legislation this year to remove the impediments to

FILIPINOS remain satisfied with the performance of Vice President Noli de Castro, are neutral toward Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Chief Justice Reynato Puno, but are dissatisfied with Speaker Propsero Nograles, according to the latest Social Weather Stations survey. Nograles’s net satisfaction rating worsened from to–22 from–17 in the previous quarter, the lowest rating

THE Philiippines is one of the four countries in the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s list of noncooperative tax havens, news reports from Paris today said. Reports said after G20 summit in London earlier Thursday, the OECD agreed to name and shame Costa Rica, Malaysia, the Philippines and Uruguay for having “not committed to

INTERNATIONAL law and constitutional experts who asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to nullify the recently signed Philippine baseline law went back to the High Court today to prevent government officials from depositing it with the United Nations next week. The petitioners said they learned that a delegation of officials from offices the Department of

THE director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is following up the Arroyo government on its investigations of the 2006 killings of six Filipino journalists. In a letter received on March 25 by the Philippine permanent delegation to Unesco in Paris, Unesco assistant director general for communication and information Abdul Waheed

By TESSA JAMANDREINTERNATIONAL law and constitutional law experts are set to ask the Supreme Court on Wednesday to nullify the three-week-old Archipelagic Baselines Law, barely a month before the May 13 deadline for the Philippine government to submit to the United Nations its claim over its extended continental shelf under the UN Convention on the

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