The following is a statement of Rep. Teodoro L. Locsin (Makati) on House Resolution No. 1109 to convene the House of Representatives into a constituent assembly (Con-Ass). House Resolution convening itself as a constituent assembly THROWING A PARTY FOR...

THEY usually begin with promising phrases like “to strengthen” or “to improve” governance, and then almost always end up making a common recommendation -- either “to amend” or “to revise” the 1987 Constitution. A torrent of such...

A FIXATION on single-issue analysis contributed to the current state of "unpeace" that now prevails in several parts of Mindanao in the wake of the bungled signing of the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Arroyo government...

SPORADIC attacks believed to have been conducted by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in several parts of Mindanao yesterday have left scores dead, mostly civilians. The renewed hostilities come in the wake of the aborted signing of the...

AT today's initial Supreme Court hearing of oral arguments on the controversial, and yet to be signed, memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP)-Moro Islamic Liberation Front...

PEACE advocate and legal scholar Soliman Santos Jr. contributes this piece in anticipation of oral arguments to be heard by the Supreme Court on August 15 regarding the petitions filed by those opposing the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain...

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...