Palace bares list of potential bets

By Joyce Pangco Pañares
Malacañang yesterday announced its short list of five potential standard-bearers even as it asked all presidential aspirants to “submit themselves this early to the public” to ensure informed votes during the 2010 national elections.

Election body chooses semi-electronic voting

THE Commission on Elections will use the less expensive Optical Mark Reader technology, part manual, part electronic system of voting in 2010 elections, officials said yesterday.

Santiago back in harness, focuses on baselines bill

By Fel V. Maragay
After a two-month absence, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago went back to work yesterday and expressed her readiness to sponsor the floor debate on the bill delineating the country’s archipelagic baselines.

3 retired cops get jail term for fraud

THREE retired police officials and a civilian contractor were each sentenced to 10 years in jail after the Sandiganbayan’s Fifth Division found them guilty of graft in the ghost purchase of P10 million worth of clothing and equipment in 1992.

Luzon traders bullish about tollway expansion

Top business leaders in Central Luzon hailed the recent opening of the Clark North Interchange of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, saying it “augurs well for the full development of Clark as a premier investors’ haven in Asia and the larger socio-economic growth of Central Luzon.