MANILA, Philippines – Twelve senators have signed the report by a Senate panel recommending the prosecution of 11 persons, including First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo over the anomalous $329-million national broadband network project.

OLONGAPO CITY, Philippines—A local court has dismissed the libel case filed by Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority officials against architect and urban planner Felino Palafox Jr. for lack of probable cause.

If we search our lives, we can and will find numerous occasions where God has shown us, in many different ways, his love and concern and forgiveness. You may not be like King David who murdered the husband of a woman he wanted so much to have for a wife and a lover.  A sin unforgivable? Well, he wept and repented and turned up to be the great, great, great grandfather of Jesus, no less.

MANILA, Philippines—Bicycle commuters who wish to cut travel time while getting some relief from the fumes, noise and maddening traffic of Metro Manila now have a lighter, off-road option.

The Light Rail Transit (LRT) Lines 1 (Baclaran-Monumento) and 2 (Recto-Santolan) Sunday began admitting passengers with bikes in tow, allotting the last coach of each train for these pedal-pushing riders.

Disaster-Prone

We probably took it lightly then but it was a fact –the Philippines was the highest placed country in the Global Climate Risk Index announced at the 2007 Bali UN Climate Change Conference. It was a way of recognizing that in those years extreme weather events already accounted for 3,000 deaths and widespread destruction by mudslides and typhoons in the Philippines.

PRESIDENT MACAPAGAL-ARROYO has agreed to clean up her own backyard first before the government removes all the other obstructions along the Pasig River in an effort to stop the perennial flooding in Metro Manila.

Urban planner and architect Felino Palafox Jr. said two buildings in the Malacañang compound which backs to the Pasig were in violation of the 10-meter easement rule for riverfront properties.

Inquirer Northern Luzon

DAGUPAN CITY—Just call him Father Soc.

Socrates Villegas, a protégé of the late Jaime Cardinal Sin, was installed yesterday as the fifth archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, declaring that the people of Pangasinan are the “salt of the earth” on a mission of social and spiritual renewal.