Lawmakers say better measures needed to meet growing threat
Announces crackdown on putting minors to work
Bishop Martin Jumoad of Basilan today urged President Benigno Aquino to address the growing incidents of kidnappings in Mindanao.
“The problem with this government is it is too much focused on the impeachment of [Chief Justice Renato Corona] and neglects
Marine ecosystem in region under serious threat, activists say

As coconut prices fall, 3.5 million families hard hit

Rural hydrodam keeps villagers powered
Human Rights Watch calls for more prosecutions ahead of UN review
A group of 19 Catholic youth leaders were injured, seven of them seriously, after a bus they were traveling in careered off the road and into a gully near the town of Murcia, in Negros Occidental province on Saturday.
"The brakes on the bus were faulty and
Extra-judicial killings during Arroyo years remain unpunished, activists say

Singer's concerts are blasphemous, immoral, lewd, they say

Initiative part of efforts to end insurgency wars
Bringing high-profile fugitives to justice has been a problem, he says