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By TESSA JAMANDRE
AN aggressive overflight reconnaissance over Philippine-claimed isles in the oil-rich Spratlys group of islands in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) had been monitored and reported to the Philippine military shortly after Foreign Secretary Albert Del Rosario returned from his visit to Beijing.

By HOMER YABUT and RYAN ELBERT GAN
ANGELES, Pampanga—The province of Pampanga is known for good cooks, gourmet delights and a thriving meat processing industry. But residents of Porac town and Angeles City pay a price for this culinary pleasure: They live with the stench of dozens of piggeries that neither the local government nor the environment department could quell.

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
IN case there’s a shooting war in the disputed islands of the Spratlys, don’t expect the United States military to come to the aid of the Philippines, South China Sea experts said.

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
THE government paid a price for getting Merceditas Gutierrez to resign as Ombudsman, a deal one official justified by saying that subjecting her to a drawn-out impeachment trial would have been an emotional and divisive political exercise.

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
AFTER almost a year, President Benigno Aquino III has decided that he can work with Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, whom he is keeping in the Cabinet and to whom he is finally handing over supervision of the Philippine National Police. Last June 13, Aquino issued Robredo, who assumed the post in an acting capacity, an “ad interim” appointment.

By MICHAEL A. BENGWAYAN
ON a cool sun-lit morning on June 11, more than 200 people converged in La Trinidad, Benguet with one thing in mind—to save a forest.

By KATHLYN DELA CRUZ
IF the gauge of a successful information campaign is awareness of its target beneficiaries, the government's media group appears to have bungled its job once again.
A month after the government started distributing fuel cards to the public transport sector on May 2, many jeepney drivers have still not availed themselves of the subsidy simply because they were not aware of it.