Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Department of Health is ‘working on’ another round of drug price cuts before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s term ends next June, according to DoH Secretary Esperanza Cabral. However, Cabral said, they were ‘not making any promises.’ The first two rounds of voluntary price reductions by some 20 local pharmaceutical companies covered over 200 types of drugs and health care…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesMembers of both sides of the political spectrum are antsy over President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s appointment of the ‘Emperor’ as Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff. Retired Maj. Gen.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
ANALYSIS 03/09/2010 VIENNA A far-right candidate for Austrias presidential election has brought the countrys dark past to the surface once more, after denouncing a law banning Nazi groups and Holocaust denial. Barbara Rosenkranz, 51, a regional party leader for the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) who was nominated last week, looks to be the sole candidate to run against incumbent President Heinz Fischer, a Social Democrat, on April 25.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NO HOLDS BARRED 03/09/2010 And of course I mean Hollywood, in the good old US of A, and if youre wondering where Im coming from, well, the 82nd Academy Awards is going on as I write. Its such a welcome respite from the Manny Villar ads airing in all media, so please, can we talk about this muna
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo can act on the power supply problem in Mindanao using her special powers without the need to convene Congress, Speaker Prospero Nograles said Friday. ‘She has emergency powers to declare and she did that in Maguindanao massacre,’ Nograles said in a text message when asked if there was need for Congress’…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
03/03/2010 Even as he vowed to work solidly for and support fully the candidacy of Lakas-Kampi-CMD presidential bet, Gilbert Gibo Teodoro, Malabon Mayor Tito Oreta admitted that the administration bet will have a tough time winning over to his side the more than 300,000 voters of the city as former President Joseph Erap Estrada still commands the support of the majority of the city dwellers. In an interview during Teodoros Malabon sortie Tuesday, City Mayor Tito Oreta admitted the vaunted Erap mass support is still very much alive in the northern part of the metropolis and that at this point, all he can pledge solidly for Gibo is the support of all the…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
SM Prime Holdings is bringing in former US Vice President Al Gore to keynote the third staging of the Leadership Conference Series—a string of lectures aimed at allowing top Philippine leaders from the academe, business, government, and non-government sectors to learn from the experience and expertise of global leaders. To be held on…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BY REGINA BENGCO MALAPASCUA ISLAND, Cebu. – President Arroyo had an innovative explanation for the presence of Cabinet officials seeking elective positions in May in last Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting in Palawan when she announced they were only there “as guests.” Trade Secretary Peter Favila said Arroyo wanted to put on record that the concerned Cabinet officials are just “guests” to prevent any future legal question. “She wasn’t laughing.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BY ASHZEL HACHERO MANNY Villar, presidential candidate of the Nacionalista Party, and Manuel Roxas, vice presidential bet of the Liberal Party, have gotten the support of the Magdalo group which said it could deliver at least 250,000 votes. The “price” of the support: He will not enter into an alliance with President Arroyo; and he will pursue the Magdalo advocacy on poverty alleviation, anti-corruption, peace in Mindanao, and reform and modernization of the Armed Forces.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BY ANGELA LOPEZ DE LEON VICTORIA Elena Aquino-Dee, sister of Liberal Party standard bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, yesterday blamed corruption for the increasing number of people living under the poverty line.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BY REGINA BENGCO WITH only five months to go before she leaves Malacañang, President Arroyo’s distrust rating rose to its highest – 68 percent (or almost seven of 10 Filipinos) – since she became president in 2001, the January 22-26 survey of Pulse Asia showed. The survey, which had 1,800 respondents, showed Arroyo getting a trust rating of 11 percent and a distrust rating of 68 percent.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BY VICTOR REYES AN Air Force bomber plane crashed yesterday in Tarlac while simulating a bombing run as part of military exercises with American forces at the Crow Valley in Capas town. The pilot of the OV-10 plane, Capt.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MABALACAT, Pampanga, Philippines The sister of President Macapagal-Arroyo has bee actively campaigning for former President Joseph Estrada’s bid to return to Malacañang and this makes the latter confident of winning here in Ms Arroyo’s home province. Estrada informed reporters here on Wednesday that Cielo Macapagal-Salgado,…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
FRONTLINE 02/24/2010 Gloria Arroyo, now in the twilight of her stolen presidency, is in a desperate bid to change her history and ascension to Malacañang, twice over stolen. In her speech for the Edsa I anniversary, read by her acting Defense chief, Norberto Gonzales, she claimed that she did not seek the Office of the President.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines It is not far-fetched for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to seek the post of Speaker if she wins a seat in Congress in May, although this will still depend on the decision of her party, the Lakas-Kampi…