By Julius D. Mariveles Local and foreign businessmen called on President Benigno S. Aquino III to ensure the passage of a Freedom of Information Law before his term ends and to ensure the prosecution of past and present public officials who are proven...

WHEN mines shut down, they don’t just fade away like old soldiers. They fester and fall apart once their owners walk away. That’s what seems to have been happening to the mines that have closed one after the other across the country in the last...