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SENATE President Protempore Jinggoy Estrada Tuesday branded as “innuendoes, half-truths, self-serving and fictionalized” charges made by Sen. Panfilo Lacson linking his father, former President Joseph Estrada, to the slaying of publicist Salvador Dacer, the illegal numbers game jueteng, rice and chicken smuggling and the harassment of business tycoon Alfonso Yuchengco. In a privilege speech countering

SEN. Panfilo Lacson revealed on Monday afternoon his bitter falling out with former President Joseph Estrada when he was the latter’s chief of the Philippine National Police over what he said was his refusal to let up on the campaign against jueteng, an illegal numbers game. In a privilege speech, Lacson said Estrada, who was

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS, AVIGAIL OLARTE, YVONNE CHUA and LUZ RIMBAN THE Office of the Ombudsman and Pampanga provincial capitol have no record of presidential son and Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo filing any supplemental Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Networth (SALN) for 2002 where he said he reported the assets of his wife Angela

Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III won the presidency at a mock election held to demonstrate the use of automated voting which will be done nationwide for the first time in May 2010.

TIM Garcia, son of jailed former Armed Forces of the Philippines comptroller Gen. Carlos Garcia, is attending New York Fashion Week and has “spent the night in a Gucci jacket and YSL boots,” reported Peter Davis in his blog in The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is a news website put up by former Vanity

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS Tinatanggap ko ang hiling ng sambayanan. Tinatanggap ko rin po ang tagubilin ng aking mga magulang. Tinatanggap ko ang responsibilidad na ituloy ang laban para sa bayan. Tinatanggap ko ang hamon na mamuno sa laban na ito. Bayang Pilipinas, tatakbo ako sa pagka-pangulo sa darating na halalan. Tutuloy po natin ang laban.

From GMANEWS.TV PRESIDENTAL son and Pampanga Representative Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo on Tuesday said he is blaming himself for his seemingly “confused” answers on a recent television interview that earned him flak when it spread on the Internet. In an interview over radio dzRH, Mikey also admitted that the questions of Winnie Monsod, one of

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS, AVIGAIL OLARTE, YVONNE CHUA and LUZ RIMBAN PRESIDENTIAL son Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo failed to declare to the Commission on Elections contributions that he said he received when he ran for Congress in 2004 and 2007. Mikey said on national television Tuesday that campaign contributions and wedding gifts were partly the reason

From ABS-CBNNEWS.COM FOSTER CITY, CA. — Philippine Congressman Mikey Arroyo’s house had some very angry visitors this morning. Filipino-American activists, chanting “Shame on you, you got caught!” staged a protest outside the home that is situated in the upscale planned community.  They say they are disgusted that Arroyo, son of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo,

By AVIGAIL OLARTE FOLLOWING a VERA Files report on Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo’s failure to declare in his latest asset declarations a multi-million-peso property in California, three party-list representatives filed Tuesday a resolution that seeks “to investigate the loopholes in the SALN (Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth) disclosure system using the

INVOKING love of country and love for the political party of his forebears, Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II announced early Tuesday night that he was no longer seeking the presidency and was giving way instead to Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III. “Country above self. Bayan bago sarili. Yan ang habilin ng aking lolo, si Manuel

By AVIGAIL OLARTE PAMPANGA Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo said that as far as he and his lawyers are concerned, it is perfectly legal for a public official not to declare houses and other assets in their Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Networth (SALN) if these assets are under a company’s name, as long as