It won’t be an administration versus opposition
matchup
The 2010 presidential elections will not be a
battle between the administration and the opposition and that
several candidates vying for president is a likely scenario,
Senators Mar Roxas 2nd and Edgardo Angara said.
More than half of Filipinos consider their
political leaders at present as dishonest, a global survey
commissioned by the World Economic Forum and released Thursday said.
President Gloria Arroyo sacked acting Assistant
Secretary Daniel Dimagiba of the Air Transportation Office (ATO) and
designated Transportation Secretary Leandro Mendoza to replace him.
The Department of Justice junked some provisions
in a draft agreement on “ancestral domain” between the
government and Muslim rebels. It said these terms would result in a
separate government for the separatists.
An Australian antiterrorism specialist on
Thursday urged the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Ayala Land
Inc. to disclose their separate—and conflicting—reports on the
Glorietta 2 explosion.
LUCENA CITY: Senior citizens are thankful for
the few benefits they get, but they want all the privileges provided
by Republic Act 9257 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2003.