J Gamboa cooks up more than just great dishes
By Nana Nadal
He is everywhere. No month passes without his photo appearing in magazines, without one of his restaurants being cited as a must-visit by noted foodies, without his name being dropped in conversations about activities in the culinary world. For a time, he was even a regular sight on TV as he hosted the cooking demo portion of long-running noontime show Eat Bulaga.

Combining cooking with pleasure, health and ecology

Mister Mom

?70s band rises again with Filipino vocalist

Saying ?I do? for the nest egg

Board Exam Results
Nurse Licensure Examination Results (November 2008)

SEC official suspended, prevented from leaving
By Joyce Pangco Pa?ares and Roy Pelovello
PRESIDENT Arroyo has ordered Commissioner Jesus Martinez to go on leave from the Securities and Exchange Commission after he was accused of receiving P4.67 million in bribes from the Legacy Group, which collapsed last year with millions in unpaid debts.

Murder will out. President Estrada looks at his publicist Salvador Dacer in this 1999 Erap Cup event, shortly before their celebrated falling-out.

Erap officials tagged in Dacer killing
By Joyce Pangco Pa?ares
CLARKFIELD?Former Senior Supt. Cesar Mancao has tagged more than five suspects, including some Estrada administration officials, in the Dacer-Corbito double-murder case, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said here Tuesday.

Councilors rally round colleague against Jamby

RP export drop lowest in 28 years

Araneta University loses two land claims

Manila one of 5 least costly cities

US stocks still quite expensive despite crisis

Scientist helps find a cure for paralyzed

BPO needs 200,000 workers
By Roderick T. dela Cruz
More than 200,000 jobs in the business process outsourcing industry remain to be filled today of the nearly half a million positions in the sector.

SEC threatens to suspend license of Subic golf club
By Jenniffer B. Austria
The Securities and Exchange Commission warned Subic Bay Golf and Country Club that it will suspend its registration statement and permit to sell securities for failure to submit reportorial requirements as provided in the Securities Regulation Code.

Strong peso last year saved govt P23b in debt payments
By Lawrence Agcaoili
The continued strengthening of the peso against the US dollar and lower-than-programmed interest rates helped the Philippines save P23.4 billion in debt payments last year.

Citi unit investing $200m in property
By Eileen A. Mencias
Citi Property Investors, a part of Citigroup, is investing $200 million in Philippine real estate.

Aboitiz Power?s profit in ?08 rose slightly to P4.3b due to higher sales
By Alena Mae S. Flores
Listed Aboitiz Power Corp. yesterday reported a net income of P4.3 billion in 2008, up 4 percent from P4.2 billion in 2007, on higher power sales.

Martinez?s Spin
SEC Commissioner Jesus Martinez may find it all the more difficult to profess ignorance of his son?s business affairs.
His son?s Spin Management and Holdings Group, the company that received nearly P7 million allegedly in return for the SEC official turning soft on the trust fund-deficiencies of the collapsed Legacy Group, was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission using 6 Adela H. Rizal St., Classic Homes, Para?aque City as office address.

Legacy?s secret
By Gerry Geronimo
Legacy fought tooth and nail to prevent Chuchi Fonacher, the officer-in-charge of the Supervision and Examination Department IV (now known as the Integrated Supervision Department II) from submitting to the Monetary Board the results of the simultaneous examination that her unit conducted on the Legacy rural banks that ended on April 30, 2005. What was it that Legacy wanted to conceal from the Monetary Board?

Lawmakers defy bishops
By Christine F. Herrera
The clash of wills between bishops and congressmen continues, and this time the proposed magna carta for women becomes a bone of contention.

Last call for media move on right to reply
By Roy Pelovello
HOUSE Speaker Prospero Nograles yesterday asked the country?s media organizations and personalities to reconsider their positions against the ?right-to-reply? measure and instead submit recommen-
dations that would make the bill acceptable to all.

State university head slams 90-day suspension
The president and two other officials of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines have questioned the authority of the Commission on Higher Education to enforce a suspension order the Sandiganbayan issued against them in connection with 12 counts of graft.

Napolcom sets rules on missing cops
Either the wife, children or parents of a policeman who is ?missing in action? will receive his salary and allowance for one year, the National Police Commission said yesterday.

GSIS condones home loan penalties
The Government Service Insurance System has condoned P41.97 million worth of penalties and surcharges from its previous housing loan programs.

Manansala plate to fund education for the poor

Market! Market! bingo gone, disputed
By Ferdinand Fabella
A bingo operator in Taguig City has gone to court asking for the resumption of its venture but authorities insist the franchise to operate had expired last year.

Caloocan, Gotesco vow no eviction in takeover
Caloocan City Mayor Recom Echiverri has assured nearly 300 tenants of Ever Gotesco Grand Central Shopping Mall that no one will be evicted when city hall takes over the property.

Makati?s chief cop is fellow Boy Scout
Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay yesterday welcomed Senior Supt. Cedric Train as new chief of police, replacing Senior Supt. Gilberto Cruz, who goes to the Community Relations Group in Camp Crame.

LTO exec injured in morning ambush