THE Palace announced last week that the House of Representatives's oversight committee gave a passing mark to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for her accomplishments in the “Education for All” program, one of the key points under the government's...

TO coincide with Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's 6th State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 24, the PCIJ will also conduct its own SONA -- that is, Sale ON All PCIJ products. Yes, you heard us right. For one month, from July 24 to August 24, 2006, we will...

ABOUT two million households are experiencing hunger in the country today, the Social Weather Stations said. In its second quarter survey, the SWS found that out of a projected base of 17.4 million households, about 13.9 percent or 2.4 million...

NEARLY half of Filipinos who are aware of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's past state of the nation addresses (SONAs) are uncertain if she has been telling them the truth. With Arroyo set to deliver her sixth SONA this Monday, a recent Pulse Asia survey reports...

AS the conflict between Israel and the militant Hezbollah group in Lebanon entered its ninth day, a regional network of non-government organizations, associations and trade unions of migrant workers, as well as individual advocates of migrant workers'...

THE Supreme Court has granted the petition for habeas corpus for two University of the Philippines students and a farmer who were allegedly abducted by soldiers in Bulacan last month. The high tribunal ordered Northern Luzon Commanding Officer Gen. Romeo...

FILIPINO workers, numbering about 34,000, find themselves trapped, alongside innocent Lebanese in the current conflict raging in the Middle East between Lebanon and Israel. Six days of aerial bombardments by Israeli fighter planes have left portions of...