A woman carries her sleeping child outside the fully packed Quiapo church in Manila, as she attends an early morning mass, Saturday, that signals the start of the Christmas celebration. (AP photo)
MANILA -- Soldiers and police were placed on full alert in the Philippine capital ahead of a planned prayer rally against a temporarily abandoned plan by pro-administration lawmakers to change the Constitution, officials said Saturday.
CEBU CITY -- In opening his traditional celebration of the dawn masses, Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal gave importance to what he described as the "social concern of these days" -- the Charter change.
MANILA -- A congressman from Abra province and his bodyguard were killed by a gunman after he attended a relative's church wedding Saturday, police and radio reports said.
CEBU CITY -- Telecommunications firms Globe Telecom Inc. and Innove are paying "under protest" the duties and taxes on their importation of equipment allegedly due to erroneous tax assessment by the Department of Finance (DOF).
