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Hackers opposed to the graft-ridden pork barrel system attacked on Sunday the website of the Office of the Ombudsman and those of 37 other government bodies, posting a message calling on Filipinos to join a protest against…
MANILA, Philippines—Voting 14-0, the Supreme Court on Tuesday declared as unconstitutional the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or “pork barrel.” Among those who separately petitioned the court to scrap the PDAF system are losing senatorial candidates Samson…
PRESIDENT Aquino is staying indefinitely in this storm-devastated city to find ways to speed up the delivery of relief goods in Eastern Visayas. “We’ll stay here until we see that we’re no longer adding (to the efforts…
Ving Mosquera, nurse at the Culasi District Hospital and daughter of a municipal administrator, said that their whole town was cut off from the power grid after electric poles were toppled by more than 300-kph winds brought…
Help continues to arrive. The US Navy yesterday said its aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, is in the Philippines to join the massive international effort to help victims of supertyphoon “Yolanda,” who are mostly in Eastern…
President Benigno Aquino III yesterday declared a state of national calamity due to the havoc caused by monster typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan). In a nationwide address broadcast live on television, the President said he had declared…
DOWNED communication lines in provinces hardest hit by super typhoon Yolanda had the national government grappling with piecemeal information as the year’s strongest typhoon barreled through Eastern and Central Visayas. “Our problem now is us not knowing…
Cebu officials ordered the suspension of classes in all levels in both private and public schools on Thursday and Friday in anticipation of supertyphoon Yolanda which will enter the country this morning. “It’s better to be ready.…
In a statement released yesterday, PALex said the new service will operate five times weekly, with flight 2P 658 departing Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) Terminal 2 in Manila every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at…
According to separate advisories, Shell Philippines, Petron Corp., and Phoenix Petroleum Philippines won’t raise their diesel prices in the Cebu and Bohol which were affected by the 7.2-magnitude earthquake last Oct. 15. Because of the price movement…
ABIGAIL Villarin Soroño of Cebu Doctors’ University ranked 2nd in the October 2013 Respiratory Therapist Licensure Examination, the Professional Regulation Commission announced yesterday. Soroño garnered a rating of 84 percent and shared the rank with Rinaliza Patting…
STATE universities and colleges (SUCs) were allocated an extra P4.28 billion in the last three years through the Aquino administration’s controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). More than half of the amount went to the University of the…
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