Rescue mission leaves 2 Pinoy seamen dead

MANILA. Two Filipino seafarers on board a hijacked vessel were killed during a rescue effort in Iran early this month. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said the victims were among the 10 Pinoy crew members of hijacked bulk carrier MV Eglantine. The vessel had...

PH to divert flights as N. Korea sets launch

MANILA. The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said yesterday it would divert flights to and fromJapan andSouth Korea to coincide with a planned North Korean rocket launch over fears of falling debris. Flight paths fromJapanandSouth KoreatoManilaairport will be closed on April 12-16, whenPyongyangis...

Obama: enough world oil to crack down on Iran

BURLINGTON, Vt./WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama vowed to forge ahead with tough sanctions on Iran, saying there was enough oil in the world market – including emergency stockpiles – to allow countries to cut Iranian imports. In his decision, required by a sanctions law he...

Local LPG prices fall by P9.50 per kilo

Prices of liquefied petroleum gas dropped by P9.50 per kilogram or P104.50 per 11-kg. cylinder effective midnight Saturday, according to the LPG Marketers’ Association. This is a follow-up to last Wednesday’s P1 per kilogram rollback that independent LPG dealers implemented effective 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. LPG...

Mindanao power crisis another DOE headache

Barely solving the high oil prices, the Department of Energy is beset again with another blow in the energy sector this time amid the widespread power interruption gripping Mindanao and conflicting reports as to its main cause, In fact, Senator Chiz Escudero has asked the...

Defense says ‘Renato C. Corona’ linked to US properties is namesake

Apart from being accused of owning controversial properties all over Metro Manila, could embattled Chief Justice Renato Corona also have acquired properties halfway around the world, in the United States? In a blog post on Saturday, journalist Raissa Robles cited US public records showing a...

Prosecutors misled public on Corona’s 45 properties?

Senator Joker Arroyo on Tuesday scolded the House prosecutors for allegedly misleading the public by claiming that impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona, his wife Cristina, and their family members own 45 properties. “[Q]uite frankly, you misled the public by initially announcing 45,” Arroyo said as...

DESPITE DEFICIENCES – PCOS machines again in 2013

Voting 5-2, the Commission on Elections en banc has decided to purchase Smartmatic International’s Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines for the 2013 mid-term polls. “We decided that we just go with the exercising of the option to purchase these Smartmatic machines,” said Comelec chairman...

Corona earned P21M in 10 years from SC

Defense starts to debunk allegations on Chief Justice’s SALNs MANILA-Chief Justice Renato Corona received salaries and benefits, including fringe benefits, amounting to P21.63 million from 2002 up to 2011. During her testimony, Supreme Court chief judicial staff officer Araceli Bayuga said she handles the “alpha...

Sandiganbayan orders arrest of GMA, 3 others for NBN-ZTE deal

The Sandiganbayan anti-graft court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, her husband Jose Miguel, and two other former officials during her incumbency for the scrapped and scandal-ridden NBN-ZTE deal. A staff member of the Sandiganbayan fourth division, who refused to be...