SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian plane bound for the Philippines returned to Sydney for safety reasons on Monday after an indicator light came on in the cockpit, an airline spokeswoman said.
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The Lopez-led First Gen Corp. signed on Monday a $142-million loan, which would be used largely to fund investments and finance capital requirements for the various growth initiatives of the company.
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The death of Abu Sayyaf sub-commander Gafur Jumdail has a crippling effect on the bandit group in Sulu, according to a ranking military official.
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(UPDATE) After defending Globe Asiatique Holdings Corp. over its handling of housing loans with the Pag-IBIG fund in a radio interview on Monday, former vice president Noli de Castro admitted that he ordered an investigation into the real estate firm’s allegedly questionable loans before he stepped down from office.
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Police said on Monday the three explosions that rocked Cotabato City and an adjacent town over the weekend and early Monday had nothing to do with the deaths of a ranking Abu Sayyaf leader in Sulu and two suspected Abu Sayyaf members.
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Lawmakers on Monday turned the hearing on the budget of the Department of Interior of Local Government into a forum for grilling Secretary Jesse Robredo over his handling of the August 23 hostage-taking incident, chiding him for not taking responsibility and allowing President Benigno Aquino III to own up to the fiasco
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Defending champions San Sebastian College staved off an upset as it subdued still-winless University of Perpetual Help, 72-63, while the Jose Rizal University entered the Final four for the fourth straight, Monday in the 86th NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at the Arena in San Juan.
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Yield on the benchmark 91-day treasury bills went up by a basis point to an average of 3.946 percent, on Monday, the Bureau of Treasury said.
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A militant migrant labor group said that up to 100 foreigners, including an undisclosed number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), were detained in hot, overcrowded prison cells in the Malaz Central Jail in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Senator Ferdinand "Bong-Bong" Marcos Jr., chairman of the Senate committee on local government, on Monday moved to archive all bills seeking to postpone the barangay (village-level) and Sangguniang Kabataan (Youth Council) elections next month.
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