Archive for August, 2008

ASIDE from the issue of constitutionality being raised against the yet to be signed memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Arroyo government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), critics have also questioned the "status...

THE Supreme Court recently issued a temporary restraining order to prevent the Arroyo government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) from signing the memorandum of agreement on the Bangsamoro ancestral domain issue in Malaysia. The MOA signing...

WITHIN a span of four days this week, two attacks on radio journalists have resulted in the killing of one in Roxas City and the serious wounding of another in General Santos City, prompting the Bangkok-based regional press freedom watchdog, Southeast...

IN her State of the Nation Address last week, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo reported on the economic gains her administration chalked up in 2007. Her speech, however, ignored the bleak data that government statisticians have collected in the last six...

THE woman who felled a dynasty in Isabela finds it hard to believe that she is the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Government Service. "It...never crossed my mind to wish for it, it's so beyond me," says Isabela Governor Maria Gracia Cielo 'Grace'...