CEBU CITY -- Business owners, contractors and investors should come out and report their complaints, as this is the only way graft and corruption can be prevented, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said Tuesday.
Protesters display placards and pictures of alleged victims of political killings during a rally coinciding with the visit of United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Philip Alston Tuesday in front of the headquarters of the Philippine Armed Forces in Quezon City north of Manila. (AP photo)
MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday directed administration candidates to forego character assassination and mudslinging during the campaign.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The military flatly dismissed Tuesday the demand of militant groups to pull out troops from the Misamis Oriental town of Salay, where a farmers' group leader was murdered last week.
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi) seemed to have shut the doors for reconciliation with the ruling Lakas-NUCD Party in Pampanga.