Atienza takes control of Subic

Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Jose Atienza said his department will take control of the Subic Economic Freeport Zone following controversies that have put into question the ability of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority to enforce environmental laws within the former naval facility.

Most Filipino voters want poll automation

An overwhelming 92 percent of Filipino voters want the Arroyo administration to give priority to the automation of elections in 2010, according to a Social Weather Stations survey commissioned by civil society groups.

Mindanao told: Reset fiestas, foil terror plots

By Romie A. Evangelista
POLICE want fiestas and other Christian festivities in Central Mindanao postponed or at least shortened in the wake of bombings carried out by rogue members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

?Alabang Boys? heat up debate over death penalty restoration

By Roy Pelovello and Joel M. Sy Egco
THE controversy generated by the case of the ?Alabang Boys? sparked a new round of debates in the House of Representatives on the reimposition of the death penalty.

Ombudsman set to issue ruling on ?euro cops?

The Office of the Ombudsman has yet to clear former police comptroller Eliseo de la Paz and other generals of charges in connection with the ?Moscow incident? last October.