MILF Chairman Al Haj Murad Ibrahim presents a token to President Aquino just before the signing of the Framework Agreement between the GRP and the MILF in Malacanang (Malacanang photo)   FOR ALL THE hundreds of assembled VIPs and diplomats...

THE FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT that representatives of the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will sign in Malacanang this afternoon is, for all the euphoria, only the start of the long difficult road to peace. And in the...

JOURNALISTS are better reminded that the coverage of elections in this poll-happy country is really a coverage of the search by the public for good and effective leaders, rather than a story of ambitions, candidates and political parties. In briefing...

By Karol Anne M. Ilagan and Rowena F. Caronan DESPITE MANY ATTEMPTS to minimize the impact and influence of money in Philippine elections, the playing field is still not level, complained the nominee of one of the party-list groups vying for a seat...

THE TREASURER OF the ruling Liberal Party has acknowledged what many civil society and election watchdog groups have suspected all along - most of the campaign expenditure reports submitted to the Commission on Elections are inaccurate and...

THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS has announced the disqualification of a major party-list organization that currently has three party-list congressmen in the 15th Congress as part of a crackdown on nonqualified party-list candidates. Comelec Chairman...

  THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS law department has pledged stricter enforcement of campaign finance laws in the coming 2013 midterm elections even as Comelec officials decried the lack of resources and manpower in the poll body. Comelec law...