A soldier keeps watch as people queue up to buy the cheapest NFA (National Food Authority) rice available in the market, at a mobile rice distribution center at suburban Quezon City, Manila, Tuesday. (AP Photo)
CEBU CITY -- Unethical and scandalous.
That's how several doctors described the behavior of Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) doctors and nurses during the operation to remove a perfume canister from the anus of a male patient.
MANILA -- The government would pull out from the public markets of Metro Manila in two to three weeks the P18.25 per kilo rice being supplied by the National Food Authority (NFA) and concentrate their distribution in urban poor areas, said Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap.
BAGUIO -- The Supreme Court (SC) ordered government lawyers on senators' motion seeking another oral argument in a bid to reverse the high court's March 25 decision, which sustained President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's invocation of executive privilege on questions pertaining to the controversial US$329 million national broadband network (NBN) deal.
DAVAO CITY -- Even an implied threat of being denied the holy sacraments by the Catholic Church was not able to stop the passage of the Local Development Plan for Children (LDPC) under second reading Tuesday.
