Rain in ‘Ninja Assassin.’ (Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.) Asian pop star and actor Rain will attend the MTV Movie Awards which will be aired live from Los Angeles on June 6 (June 7 in the Philippines).   Rain has been invited to the event following his nomination in the Biggest Badass Star category for [...]

Due to the refusal of teachers to sit as the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs), the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will tap the services of its lawyers and police trainees to serve in the special elections in Lanao del Sur on Thursday, June 3. The Comelec en banc ordered the tapping of Comelec lawyers and [...]

Malacañang is keeping its fingers crossed for a “professional, efficient, and timely” transition of power to the incoming leadership despite apparent tensions between President Arroyo and her successor. Deputy Presidential Spokesman Gary Olivar said they would want to have a “pleasant” turnover between Mrs. Arroyo and the country’s new leader even though this is not [...]

Improved business and consumer confidence lifted the manufacturing and services sector to post significant upward adjustments, pushing the domestic economy to jump to 7.3 percent in the first quarter of the year. According to Deputy Presidential Spokesman Gary Olivar, a combination of astounding growth in the manufacturing and services sector and improved business and consumer [...]

Canvassing of manually counted and transmitted election returns from overseas absentee voting (OAV) centers will be completed on Monday but the count is expected to be slowed down anew by debates on questioned electronically transmitted certificates of canvass (CoC). Liberal Party tandem Senators Benigno C. Aquino III and Manuel Roxas II are likely to maintain [...]

Sen. Joker Arroyo yesterday slammed delaying tactics in the congressional canvass of votes for president and vice president. Continue Reading here…

Workers in Metro Manila are likely to get the much-awaited increase in their daily take-home pay within the week. Continue Reading here…

President-apparent Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has maintained that he would not raise or impose new taxes but would instead improve revenue collection. Continue Reading here…