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Mayor Inday scraps local talks with Reds

DAVAO CITY – Mayor Inday Sara Duterte has canceled the localized peace negotiation with the New People’s Army (NPA) following the declaration by President Rodrigo Duterte of the communist rebels as...

Aguirre wants CPP-NPA legally tagged as terror group

MANILA -- The Department of Justice (DOJ) has ordered the Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG) to file a formal petition before the regional trial court (RTC) to legally declare the Communist...

Villanueva bats for bill protecting Filipino seafarers’ rights

The Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development chaired by Senator Joel Villanueva discussed on Wednesday Senate Bill Nos. 314, 244, 904 or the Magna Carta of Seafarers Act,...

Impeachment hearings unraveling the flaws of Sereno’s defense: Alvarez

Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez today said the hearings of the House Committee on Justice on the impeachment complaints against Supreme Court Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno had slowly unraveled the flaws of...

Witness plea to CJ to hasten pension process ignored

The House committee on justice chaired by Rep. Reynaldo Umali (2nd District, Oriental Mindoro) on Tuesday heard the testimony of Court Administrator Jose Midas Marquez who shared that his January 2017...

Media security task force seeks NBI, police help for Times reporter

MANILA -- The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) sought on Wednesday the help of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) in dealing...

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