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By Christine F. Herrera
The House yesterday approved on second reading a bill decriminalizing libel while its rules committee withheld debate on the right-to-reply bill until after a dialog with members of the press.
Gonzalez slams US report on corruption
By Rey E. Requejo and Roy Pelovello
THE Philippines should protest the report of the US State Department which claimed that corruption was widespread in the Philippine judiciary system, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said yesterday.
Atienza intensifies river cleanup
Environment Secretary Lito Atienza said that the rehabilitation of the Pasig River has been intensified with the completion of major activities in the river cleanup.
By Michael Caber
THE British Embassy will restrict the number of student visa applications it will process daily because it is clogged with 47,000 applications, many filed by Filipino nurses taking advantage of the National Vocation Qualification program.
Tax-free oil squirreled away from Subic, Clark
By Albert B. Lacanlale
Customs agents discovered Thursday that tax-and-duty-free fuel products were being sold at a gasoline station in Lubao town of Pampanga, outside the Subic and Clark free ports.
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