|
|
|
Thursday, March 06, 2008 |
|
|
|
Senate rejects
compromise |
|
Conditions set by SC seen as crippling legislature |
|
By Efren L. Danao Senior
Reporter
Confrontation between Malacañang
and the Senate will likely continue as the Senate
rejected in a caucus on Wednesday evening a compromise formula
offered by Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno.
On Tuesday, Puno had suggested it
to break the impasse between the executive and the legislative on
the appearance of Malacañang officials in congressional inquiries.
|
|
 Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
O T H E R R E P O R T S
|
 |
|
|
|
|
President Bows To
Pressure, Scraps Executive Order 464
|
|
President Gloria Arroyo,
apparently bowing to pressure from many sectors, revoked the
controversial Executive Order (EO) 464 that prevents officials from
attending congressional hearings on alleged corruption...
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Govt asks Lozada,
Abalos: Stop ‘political’ school tours
|
|
Education Secretary Jesli Lapus
on Wednesday said he will not allow further “campus tours” by
personalities involved in the national broadband scandal to spare
schools from politics.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
SouthRail papers
missing–Jamby
|
|
The memorandum of agreement
between the Philippine and Chinese corporations on the
$932-million SouthRail project is missing just like that on the
aborted broadband project with China’s ZTE Corp.,...
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Poverty grew 16%,
says latest government survey
|
|
The number of poor Filipino
households during President Gloria Arroyo’s administration has
increased and poverty overall has worsened, based on the 2006 Family
Income and Expenditure Survey, officials said Wednesday.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
ANALYSIS
|
|
Civil society says
tied aid makes Pinoys subservient
|
|
Many critics of the national
broadband deal have pointed out that one of its questionable points
is pinpointing specifically China’s ZTE Corp. as main implementor
of the project.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
WB: Govt no good
in poverty reduction
|
|
THE Philippines is no good in
reducing its poverty level, a former
World Bank president said Wednesday.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
