President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, assisted by Armed Forces Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon, pins a medal to Marine Pfc. Jeremy Francil Ymbol at a military hospital in Zamboanga City on Friday. (AP photo)
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered on Friday the momentary suspension of military operations against those who killed and beheaded Marine soldiers in Basilan province until after an investigation on the incident.
CEBU CITY -- Money bled out at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in 2006 because audit rules, put in place to safeguard against misappropriations, were largely ignored.
MANILA -- The military said it could not produce Jonas Joseph Burgos in court because it does not have custody of the missing activist, during a hearing Friday on the petition for habeas corpus filed by his mother.
DAVAO CITY -- Three more witnesses in the killing of a losing mayoralty candidate and his engineer son in Malita, Davao del Norte surfaced at the Regional State Prosecutor's Office Friday to execute affidavits.
