By Roy Pelovello
HOUSE Speaker Prospero Nograles and Oriental Mindoro Rep. Rodolfo Valencia have filed a bill regulating house rental rates to replace the rent control law that expired last Dec. 31.
One million jobs in the pipeline
By Joyce Pangco Pa?ares
The Arroyo administration will create one million jobs within the first six months of the year as part of measures it has adopted to counter the adverse effects of the global financial crisis.
P5,000 rebate eyed for taxpayers
By Fel V. Maragay
A one-time rebate of P5,000 for individual taxpayers will cushion the impact of the global financial crisis on an estimated two million fixed-income earners, Senator Mar Roxas said yesterday.
Court set a bad precedent, says Cebu firm
By Rey E. Requejo
A litigant at the Supreme Court faces losing its multimillion-peso property after the court?s second division issued a resolution, allegedly depriving it of the constitutional right to due process and fair judicial proceedings.
Euro general, wife cleared in Russia
By Romie A. Evangelista
Russian authorities have cleared former police comptroller Eliseo de la Paz and his wife of violation of currency laws, and are processing the return of the 128,000 euros seized from the couple, his lawyer said yesterday.