MALACAÑANG said Sunday that it is in the process of screening possible candidates for the administration senatorial line-up in the May 2007 elections, adding that the opposition would get a “good fight”.
Reports said the opposition senatorial line-up is composed of Senate President Manuel Villar Jr., Senators Ma. Luisa “Loi” Ejercito, Panfilo Lacson and Ralph Recto, [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo hailed the Filipino community in China’s Fujian province for their contribution to the Philippines’ progress as she met with them Friday afternoon.
A Malacañang statement said Arroyo met with 200 representatives of the Filipino community at Xiamen’s Xianglu Hotel for an hour, exchanging pleasantries and posing for photos with them. (more…)
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Thursday expressed hope that plans for an anti-terrorism convention would be firmed up when leaders of the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) meets in Cebu in December.
In a radio station dzRH interview, Arroyo said the campaign against terrorism is one of the topics that ise expected [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Wednesday ordered the secretaries of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to oversee the cleanup of the government bureaucracy, government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs), and local government units of so-called ghost employees.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita signed the memorandum order on the [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has offered to make the Philippines a venue for the revival of the Six-Party talks among member-countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to pave the way for diplomatic dialogues with the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK).
Arroyo made the offer during a teleconference with Japanese [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont will hold bilateral talks Monday afternoon during the foreign leader’s official visit to Manila as part of his familiarization tour of other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).
Colonel Romeo Prestoza, commander of the Presidential Security Group (PSG), said security measures for Surayud are [...]
MALACAÑANG ordered the three-month suspension without pay of Air Transportation Office (ATO) assistant secretary Nilo Jatico for failure to liquidate cash advances amounting to P1.2 million from 2003 to 2004.
Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PGC) chairperson Constancia de Guzman said the suspension stemmed from a complaint of the ATO employees filed against Jatico on July 27, 2004. [...]
CAGAYAN DE ORO — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wants to arm members of barangay police and civilian volunteers organizations (CVOs) and bring them to the forefront in intelligence gathering and in the fight against insurgency and terrorism in Mindanano.
Arroyo through Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Ronaldo Puno who revealed plans to finally institutionalize the implementation [...]
MALACANANG on Wednesday announced the replacement of the heads of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) and the Land Transportation Office (LTO).
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said LTFRB chairperson Ma. Elena Bautista, who was promoted as transportation and communications undersecretary, was replaced by LTFRB spokesman Thompson Lantion. (more…)
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday ordered the tapping of barangay tanods in Metro Manila and other urban areas to augment the security forces in the light of more terror attacks anticipated in other parts of the country following the bombings in Mindanao last week.
Arroyo, during the 8th CEO Forum of the Semiconductor and Electronics Industries [...]
