CALLING freedom of the press one of the touchstones of democracy that need to be strengthened, Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno opened the international conference on impunity and press freedom yesterday morning at the Manila Peninsula in...

THERE are a lot of things one can do with half a million pesos, among them giving (like Deputy Executive Secretary Manuel Gaite says he did earlier this month) the amount to a near-stranger who texted that he was running out of funds in a foreign land....

AFTER exhorting people to "watch and pray" and to engage in "communal action" to get to the truth of recent allegations of what they call as "scandalous and shady government deals that offend the common good and serve only personal, family and group...

THRONGS of people also commemorated Edsa 1 yesterday by flocking to the historic Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Baclaran to attend a mass for truth. In attendance during the mass celebrated by Fr. Ino Cuete with 34 other Redemptorist priests were...

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Photos by Avie M. Olarte and Carmel Laurino 

ALLOWED once again to occupy Mendiola, leftist groups yesterday bravely marched to the historic street, carrying "Oust Gloria!" banners to mark the 22nd anniversary of the first Edsa People Power revolt. [kml_flashembed...

SUPPORTERS of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo gathered at the Liwasang Bonifacio yesterday to express their support for the embattled chief executive, even as thousands gathered in Mendiola, at the Baclaran church and Edsa shrine to mark 22 years of the first...