THE Aquino administration wishes for the postponement of the elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm) following the opposition of most senators. The Senate Committees on Local Government, Constitutional Amendments, and Revision of Codes and Laws are set to conduct another hearing on May 31 regarding the proposal to synchronize the Armm elections [...]

MARGARITA “Tingting” Cojuangco, the President’s aunt-in-law and candidate for vice governor in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm), is determined to run even if she isn’t Malacañang’s candidate. There is no Malacañang candidate because President Benigno Aquino III wants the Armm elections moved to 2013 to give the government time to implement political reforms [...]

AN OPPOSITION lawmaker on Friday blamed the Aquino administration for the decline in the business optimism index, which dropped to 31.8 percent in the second quarter from 47.5 percent in the first quarter. “This shows the very slow response of the Aquino administration to issues like oil crisis, which spiked prices, under-spending which caused economic [...]

AFTER the Bureau of Customs (BOC) confiscated hundreds of corals from poachers who probably explored 7,000 hectares of coral reefs — an area twice the size of Manila — the Makabayan Coalition urged President Benigno Aquino III to immediately stop further environmental degradation. “Environmental criminals are not only poachers of marine life and coral reefs. [...]