Filipino boxing star Manny Pacquiao may join the administration's Liberal Party as one of its senatorial bets in the upcoming national elections in the Philippines.
MANILA – The race to cleanse the Philippine electoral list, which has been known to include inactive, dead, migrated and non-existent voters, may be an urgent call but time seems to be running out on the effort to purge it of unwanted names.
MANILA – A Senate bet in the May 2010 Philippine elections has asked the country’s poll body to use celebrities in its campaign to encourage overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to cast their votes in the nation’s first automated elections.
MANILA – The Commission on Elections, known for pussyfooting in resolving poll cases, has unseated two governors in only two days, raising the specter the agency has been pressured to oust sitting politicians critical of the Arroyo dispensation.
MANILA – Sen. Benigno Aquino III, front-runner in the Philippine presidential derby, has called on the government to account for the P9.44 billion funds earmarked last year for the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
MANILA - Lakas-Kampi-CMD presidential bet and former Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro is dominating several online surveys for presidential candidates in the May 2010 elections, emerging as the leading contender in four separate Internet-based polls.
MANILA –Sen. Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III was criticized for his “dangerous” position in forewarning the Supreme Court against accepting any appointment the outgoing President might make for the position of Chief Justice.
MANILA – The Center for International Law has released its list of 27 journalists who were brutally killed in the infamous Maguindanao Massacre that occurred last Nov. 23 in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao Province.
MANILA – Sen. Benigno Aquino III, a presidential bet running under the Liberal Party, has filed today a bill seeking an immediate resolution of Maguindanao massacre that led to the killing of scores of innocent victims.
