Thousands of government workers, from Malacañang down to the line agencies, will be joining the ranks of around three million unemployed as the Memorandum Circular 1 (MC 1) of President Aquino extending their services expires today. Continue Reading here…

Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will cooperate in an investigation by the Truth Commission into alleged misdeeds when she was president. Continue Reading here…

Eminem Eminem refuses to learn about the ways of the Internet because he’d drive himself mad with the comments of his online critics if he knew how to surf. The “Stan” rapper admits he has no idea about navigating cyberspace – and he’d like to leave it that way. He employs someone to keep his [...]

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will seek a resolution to remove apprehensions over the multi-billion Tampakan Copper-Gold Project in South Cotabato while upholding its mandate of protecting the environment. “There is a win-win solution to this,” Environment Secretary Ramo Jesus Paje. Continue Reading here…

PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE, Texas (AP) — Hundreds of tiny baby turtles with their dime-sized paddle-like feet dragged through the sand on Monday heading for a new home in the Gulf of Mexico despite the threat of oil some 400 miles away. Born just days ago, these endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles were released off [...]

A large asteroid in space that has a remote chance of slamming into the Earth would be most likely hit in 2182, if it crashed into our planet at all, a new study suggests. The asteroid, called 1999 RQ36, has about a 1-in-1,000 chance of actually hitting the Earth, but half of that risk corresponds [...]

ISMAILIA, Egypt, July 28 (Reuters) – The Suez Canal — widely viewed as a barometer of world trade — is still not as busy as it was before the global financial crisis, the canal authority’s chairman said on Monday. Despite recovering from slumping 2009 revenue, the canal is unlikely to bring in as much in [...]

President Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) was “deficient, defective, and divisive,” meant to lower the expectations of Filipinos on his capacity to run the country, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman said yesterday. Continue Reading here…