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By VERA Files A crew member of a Taiwanese trawler was killed Thursday morning after being fired upon by a Philippine Navy ship in the disputed area of the South China Sea, media reports in Taipei and Beijing said. The online Taiwan News said the incident took place at 10 a.m. “about halfway between the

 By PABLO A. TARIMAN  AFTER months of festive tribute to Daragang Magayon in theater, music and dance mounted by the provincial government, the country’s celebrated volcano put up its own culminating true-to-life performance with an eruption that caught everyone by surprise Tuesday. The volcanologists referred to the eruption as “phreatic” described as   steam-driven explosions that

By DARLENE CAY, VINCE NONATO, RALPH TY, ADRIENNE ADRE and CHARRY ESPINO (First of two parts) GRADUATE student Jose Castillo was one of the tens of thousands of students expecting to graduate late last month from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. After all, except for this thesis, he had completed all the requirements

By DARLENE CAY and MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ Photos and video by VINCENT GO Senatorial candidates stole the limelight from the working class at yesterday’s Labor Day protest rallies, where workers called for a wage increase, bigger tax relief, an end to contractualization, non-wage benefits and lower prices of basic commodities. Cameras and microphones turned away

By CLTV 36 SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga—The good news about the elections in Central Luzon is that only a tiny fraction of candidates running for public office in the May 13 elections comes from political families. The bad news is that Pampanga has the highest number of candidates for various positions who hail from those dynasties,

By MIKHA FLORES UPDATED AND CORRECTED: The designation of lawyer Al Parreño as elections commissioner is the latest and at least fifth government appointment given to the ranks of prosecutors in the impeachment trial of Renato Corona since the Senate convicted the Supreme Court chief justice on a 20-3 vote in May last year. This

By CHERRY JOY VENILES GARY Garcia has been working as a seaman for almost 10 years—and has been a registered absentee voter for just as long.   In fact, it’s as long as Republic Act 9189 or the Overseas Absentee Voting Law, which provides for a system for Filipino citizens working or residing outside the Philippines to

BY BABYLYN KANO-OMAR BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi— The 32 Liberal Party candidates and their supporters who were detained in Sabah for 72 hours have been released, reached Tawi-Tawi Thursday night and will be going back to Languyan Friday night.

BY BABYLYN KANO-OMAR BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi— Malaysian Police have detained 32 Liberal Party candidates and their supporters who were on their way to the Turtle Islands to accompany a gubernatorial candidate on his campaign around 10 a.m. Tuesday.

By MIKHA FLORES THE latest Supreme Court ruling on the party-list system has stirred up a maelstrom of controversy and revived debates over its real aim barely a month before the May 13 mid-term elections.

By LAURO L. BAJA JR. IN various prose, Philippine foreign policy revolves and operates under three pillars: protection of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the republic; promotion of the economic interests of the country; and protection and promotion of the welfare of overseas Filipino workers. In pursuit of these pillars, the Philippines has conducted

Text and slideshow by VINCENT GO WITH fresh evidence that her son ended up in military custody after he disappeared six years ago, Edita Burgos is demanding that the Armed Forces of the Philippines own up to the abduction and reveal his whereabouts. Burgos submitted to the Supreme Court a photo of her son Jonas,