By Al Jacinto ZAMBOANGA, August 5, 2010 (AFP) – A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up and injured 14 people in an attack on an airport in the restive southern Philippines on Thursday, authorities said. A local governor who had just disembarked a plane at the Zamboanga airport and was slightly injured in the explosion [...]

MANILA, Aug. 3 (PNA) – Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila De Lima on Tuesday said that the government may take over the management of Philippine Airlines (PAL) only as a last resort. In a press conference, De Lima said that the option that the government takes over the management of PAL will only be [...]

MANILA, August 2, 2010 (AFP) – Philippine Airlines (PAL) said Monday it will have to cancel some of its flights permanently after a number of pilots walked out to take higher-paid jobs abroad. Jonathan Gesmundo said four of the national carrier’s 160 daily trips will be discontinued unless the 25 pilots return to work as [...]

By Mynardo Macaraig MANILA, July 28, 2010 (AFP) – The new Philippine government said Wednesday it was aiming to achieve sustained economic growth of up to eight percent annually as investor confidence grew and red tape was cut. Economic Planning Secretary Cayetano Paderanga told reporters that streamlined business procedures and more transparent investment measures would [...]

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced the Honorable Tani Cantil-Sakauye as his choice for chief justice of the California Supreme Court. “Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye has a distinguished history of public service and understands that the role of a justice is not to create law, but to independently and fairly interpret and administer the law,” said Governor [...]

MANILA, July 23, 2010 (AFP) – Three major quakes measuring between magnitude 7.3 and 7.4 hit the southern Philippines early Saturday, seismologists said, but there were no reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued. The underwater quakes struck at a depth of between 575 and 605 kilometers (350 and 375 miles), just over [...]

BEVERLY HILLS, July 20, 2010 (AFP) – Troubled Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan was taken in handcuffs from a courthouse here Tuesday to begin a 90-day jail term for breaking her parole after a 2007 drunk driving conviction. Lohan arrived at the courthouse amid a crush of media cameras, at around 8:30 am (1530 GMT), accompanied [...]