FACES OF THE NEWS: May 19, 2019

Credit to Author: ryanl| Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 21:08:28 +0000

Arlene ‘Kaka’ Bag-ao, Isko Moreno, Romulo ‘Kid’ Peña, Nancy Binay, Ronald Cardema, Francis Zamora

Ronald Cardema National Youth Commission (NYC) Chair Ronald Cardema again courted controversy when he applied to be the substitute nominee of the Duterte Youth party list in lieu of his wife. The Commission on Elections earlier said that the period for such application had lapsed, but on Saturday, it corrected itself and said that Cardema’s […]

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FACES OF THE NEWS: May 12, 2019

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 21:40:52 +0000

FACES OF THE NEWS: May 12, 2019

At a hastily organized press briefing, Peter Joemel Advincula, a former marketing executive and ex-convict, stunned the country by claiming he was “Bikoy”

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FACES OF THE NEWS: May 5, 2019

Credit to Author: ryanl| Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 21:09:06 +0000

FACES OF THE NEWS: May 5, 2019

If American lawyer Robert Swift was bothered by protests over his “exorbitant” attorney’s fee, he did not show it as he cheerfully handed out P77,500 checks to each of the 140 claimants in Caraga who were the victims of human rights atrocities during the Marcos dictatorship or their relatives.

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FACES OF THE NEWS: April 28, 2019

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 21:42:54 +0000

FACES OF THE NEWS: April 28, 2019

Unfazed by President Rodrigo Duterte’s threat to behead him, Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David continues to take the government

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FACES OF THE NEWS: March 24, 2019

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:20:53 +0000

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern impressed the world the past week as she displayed the qualities that fueled her stellar rise to become, at 38, the world’s youngest female head of state.

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FACES OF THE NEWS: March 17, 2019

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 23:14:00 +0000

FACES OF THE NEWS: March 17, 2019

Retired Marine Gen. Alexander Balutan capped off  another interesting chapter in his postmilitary career when he resigned last week from his post as general manager of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), a leading fund-generating government agency.

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FACES OF THE NEWS: Feb. 17, 2019

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:18:14 +0000

FACES OF THE NEWS: Feb. 17, 2019

When National Bureau of Investigation agents came to arrest her on Wednesday, CEO Maria Ressa of the online news site Rappler maintained a measured smile.

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FACES OF THE NEWS: Feb. 10, 2019

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 21:42:28 +0000

FACES OF THE NEWS: Feb. 10, 2019

The Pope became the first Pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula after a pilgrimage to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates on Monday.

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FACES OF THE NEWS: Jan. 13, 2019

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 23:10:25 +0000

FACES OF THE NEWS: Jan. 13, 2019

Silvestre Bello III Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III called out the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) for violating its own mandate when one of its commissioners prematurely disclosed that he and two other Cabinet members were being investigated for alleged corruption. Bello, said the PACC, was supposedly in on the P6.8-million extortion of Azizzah International Manpower […]

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