E lection watchdog group Legal Network for Truthful Elections (Lente) is ready for full, partial, or zero automation, said co-convenor Carlos Medina. From 6,000 volunteer lawyers in the 2007...

RUNWAY 06 for landing, Runway 24 for takeoff. The Caticlan Airport in Aklan, the nearest jump-off point to the world-famous Boracay island resort, is strictly implementing this policy after a...

DESPITE the broadening of Philippine ties with the outside world, one bilateral relationship that has remained the most important overall is our partnership with the United States. It is a...

CEBU CITY, Philippines -- The Aboitiz Group on Friday denied any personal or professional relationship between members of the Aboitiz clan and the head of the Total Information Management Corp. (TIM)...

FERVENT PRAYER. People attend the third healing mass at the Chapel of Sto Nino de Paz in Greenbelt Makati City for the recovery of former President Corazon Aquino who was hospitalized at the Makati...

COTABATO CITY, Philippines -- Automated elections would be the only way to prevent election fraud in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), Elections Commissioner Elias Yusoph said on...

MANILA, Philippines -- (UPDATE 2) The Senate will not suspend its operations even after one of its employees was confirmed to be infected with the Influenza A(H1N1) virus, Senate President Juan Pence...

MANILA, Philippines - Biopsy tests, and not breast repair, were performed on President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo when she was admitted at the Asian Hospital last June 30, Press Secretary Cerge Remonde...

A policeman in the Philippines has been arrested for the murder of journalist Crispin Perez on 9 June.The shooting, in central Mindoro Occidental province, is one of scores of alleged murders of...

project to automate next year's Philippine elections is back on track just days after the winning bidders threatened to walk out on the deal, officials said...

Prayers and masses are being held across the Philippines for the recovery of cancer-stricken former President Corazon Aquino. The democracy icon is battling colon cancer.Mrs. Aquino's son, Senator...

C ommission on Elections (Comelec) chair Jose Melo was all smiles after emerging from a 3-hour closed-door meeting with officials of the Barbados-based Smartmatic and Filipino firm Total...

(AP) — MANILA, Philippines - Areas of mass found in Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's groin and breast are benign and will not require surgery, her spokesman said Friday. Arroyo...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was declared in good health after biopsies were conducted on lumps found on her breast and groin, her press secretary said on Friday....

MANILA, Philippines - The dispute has ended. Smartmatic and its Filipino partner, Total Information Management (TIM), were able to iron out their differences over the control of funds for the...

MANILA, Philippines -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has announced that the winning bidders in the automation project have settled their dispute and would proceed with computerizing the polls...

MANILA, Philippines - Cancer-stricken democracy icon and former President Corazon "Cory" Aquino remains strong-willed despite her present condition, Mrs. Aquino's youngest daughter Kris said. ...

MANILA - Filipino prisoners who spawned a worldwide Internet hit with their version of Jackson's "Thriller" video recreated their dance in tribute to the dead star, television reported Friday.The...

MANILA - Former Philippines leader Corazon Aquino, who is suffering from cancer, is back in the hospital and is in a fragile state, according to family and friends."President Cory Aquino is...

LOS ANGELES – Many Filipinos cherish the day the pop icon and legend performed in the Philippines in a solo concert last December 10, 1996 at the Asia World grounds. Production Director Malou...

A new Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) project extending the C-5 road in Quezon City could damage three main underground aqueducts supplying water to Metro Manila, according to some...

W hile influential figures and other unseen hands have been considered as reasons for the uncertainties in the poll automation project, money also played a major role in it. Earlier, Total...

) of Philippine stocks in June, nudging the broad market higher compared to its level in May, preliminary data from the Philippine Stock Exchange showed ...

MANILA, Philippines - Optical Media Board (OMB) chairman Edu Manzano wants a congressional inquiry into the loss of some P60 million worth of seized replicating machines used in video piracy. In...

Manila - A 68-year-old German man was stabbed to death by an unidentified attacker at his residence in the central Philippines, a police report said Friday. Herman Kruse was watching television with...

MANILA, Philippines - A Senate employee has been confirmed infected with the A(H1N1) virus, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said Friday. Radio dzBB's Nimfa Ravelo reported this was the...

-(Dow Jones)- Around two million Filipino contract workers are estimated to be abroad at any one time in the April-September period last year, up 14.6% from a year earlier, a National Statistics...

China demonstrated its power in the ongoing Philippine Badminton Open by sending all their shutters into men's and women's singles quarterfinals on Thursday. All the five men participants and three...

Washington — Sometimes, the smallest notions turn out to be the biggest successes. In the Philippines, Melissa “Aissa” Peñafiel, 22, and Juan Miguel “Migs” Ocampo, 20, wanted to make a...

T he Asian Institute of Management (AIM) and the Association of Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS), a non-profit association subsidized by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry are...

O wners and managers of the business establishments in Quezon City are up in arms against a proposed ordinance, which seeks to impose parking fees on “places of special interest” in the...

While most wait for flash support to arrive on the iPhone, others are wondering when Bluetooth file transfer will become available on Apple’s mobile phone. Well, w...

MANILA, Philippines -- A key ally of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the House of Representatives parried attacks against the head of Total Information Management Inc. (TIM) and said the issue...

MANILA, Philippines -- Backing out of a government project after it has been awarded to a winning bidder makes the supplier criminally liable and open to imprisonment of six to 15 years, Justice...

MANILA, Philippines -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo checked out of the Asian Hospital "with a clean bill of health" at 2 p.m. Thursday after nearly two days of quarantine, Malacanang said. "She...

MANILA, Philippines - In a life brimming with drama, she defeated a dictator and survived seven coup attempts. How is she faring in what is probably her last big battle? No one could say for now,...

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- A stream of relatives and neighbors, all wanting to hug her, welcomed Mae Vecina in the village of Kilada in Matalam, North Cotabato, at a homecoming that the overseas Filipino...

PAGUDPUD, Ilocos Norte -- A deal that would allow Japan to use at least 600,000 hectares of land in the Philippines for biofuel production has taken shape on a huge tract of grasslands here, site of...

MANILA, Philippines -- Five congressmen, three governors and city mayors belonging to the administration have rejoined the Liberal Party (LP) as it intensified its efforts to woo back its former...

Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines said yesterday they have killed more than 500 government troops in 10 months of fighting since the collapse of peace talks, a claim the military dismissed as...

A DMC nurse uses the high-tech ‘infrared thermal scanner’ on a faculty upon entry in the campus. DMC is the first campus in Dipolog City to utilize such gadget to monitor its students amid the...

Philippine President Corazon Aquino, who has cancer, left a hospital intensive care unit and was in stable condition, her spokeswoman said Thursday, as prayers for her recovery poured in from friends...

Sheila and Abaya Fashion, one among the signature events of Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS) 2009, came to a spectacular end on Tuesday, June 30, at...

By Joel D Adriano MANILA - There is uneasiness surrounding the political ambitions of deposed Philippine president Joseph Estrada. Ousted, convicted and jailed on economic plunder charges in...

In his column, The Ateneo and public opinion polling , Mahar Mangahas kept referring to “the spiral of silence phenomenon,” without every actually explaining...

MANILA, Philippines -- The possible failure of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to computerize the 2010 elections would be a big setback to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's much hyped...

Government security forces killed two separatist rebels in a clash in the restive southern Philippines, a military official said on Thursday. Jonathan Ponce, spokesman for the Philippine Army's 6th...

MANILA - High school teacher Gertrudes Cielo Farias will finally retire from work on Friday, after teaching for 36 years. As she retires, one of the things she will no longer have to do is serve in...

MANILA, Philippines--Senator Richard Gordon would be inclined to join other hopefuls in the selection process for the standard-bearer of Lakas Kampi-CMD for the 2010 polls, only if the candidate is...

TAGUM CITY -- Police are readying charges against 11 soldiers for alleged obstruction of justice even as local authorities called for a deeper investigation into shooting incidents in Sto. Tomas town...