GROUPS and individuals opposed to charter change filed a petition today at a Quezon City regional trial court seeking to stop election officers in Metro Manila from verifying the signatures gathered by the Sigaw ng Bayan and the Department of Interior and...

THE Social Weather Stations disclosed yesterday that it was privately commissioned by Pedro R. Laylo Jr. to include in its March survey four items to test the public’s reactions to political messages of the Arroyo administration. Laylo, popularly...

SHOULD Filipinos believe the rosy picture being painted by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo about the state of the economy? Can they take her word for it when she claims that the economy is on the verge of take-off, the fiscal condition is improving, the peso is...

A NUMBER of proposed changes in the Constitution, from both the House of Representatives and the Consultative Commission, will weaken safeguards on civil liberties, a human rights expert said. In a forum sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and...

CEBU Daily News was named Best Edited paper in this year's Annual Community Press Awards. Handed out by the Philippine Press Institute (PPI), the Community Press Awards honors community newspapers that show oustanding work in editing, science and...

STRESSING the Constitutional guarantees to the people's right to peaceably assemble and petition for redress of grievances, the Supreme Court today ruled that the Arroyo government's Calibrated Preemptive Response policy is unconstitutional. "The...

RESIDENTS of Bgy. Didipio in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya have availed themselves of one final pleading to urge the Supreme Court to reconsider its March 30, 2006 decision dismissing their petition to declare the Mining Act of 1995 unconstitutional and the...