THERE was dancing on the streets, playing of drums and honking of car horns Monday when Jose Mari Alkatiri, East Timor's unpopular prime minister, announced his resignation after three months of violence that threatened to bring the fledgling nation to...

LINTANG Bedol, the provincial election supervisor of Maguindanao reassigned to Sultan Kudarat shortly before the May 2004 elections and who figured in conversations with former poll commissioner Virgilio Garcillano in the "Hello, Garci" recordings, is...

MAKING sure that a "Lozano maneuver" won't happen this time, citizen complainants comprising over 200 private citizens and organizations kept a vigil at the Batasan complex parking lot last night prior to filing the second impeachment complaint against...

SHE'S hot, sexy and a Filipino-American single mother who went to college in Bukidnon. A card-carrying member of the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association, she is also running for governor of Nevada. Melody Damayo, 32, better known as...

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed today the bill abolishing capital punishment. Arroyo says June 24 is a “good day to sign the death penalty abolition” because it is the feast of St. John the Baptist “who was a victim of death penalty in his...

THE Filipino-American community in Metro Washington, D.C. has written an open letter to Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expressing its dismay and disappointment over the recent unceremonious dismissal of Albert del Rosario, Philippine ambassador to the United...

THERE are 1,680 households in the municipality of Tuburan in Lanao del Sur; of all those households, only eight -- not even half of a percent -- have access to clean water. Thus describing the gravity of poverty in many areas across the country, Prof....