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Vice President Jejomar Binay (left) is given a tour of the Toledo copper mine in Toledo City, Cebu on Thursday, November 6. Binay did not attend the day’s Senate probe on the alleged overpriced Makati City Hall Building II. He is in Cebu to attend the Philippine Scouting Centennial Jamboree and meet with local officials to check their housing programs. Also in photo is Adrian Ramos (right), COO of Carmen Mining Corp. (MNS photo) MANILA, Apr 15 (Mabuhay) – Senator Antonio Trillanes IV trained his guns on Wednesday at the daughter of Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay after the lawmaker challenged him to show proof that her family paid members of the Court of Appeals to stop the suspension of her brother as mayor of Makati City. “Alam nyo parang mga bata itong mga ito, puro na lang hamon. Inimbitahan mo sa Senado ayaw namang humarap,” (They are like children, who like to issue challenges. But call them to the Senate and they don’t appear) Trillanes told reporters. Instead of giving in to the challenge of Abigail, the senator said was looking into how she used her pork barrel funds or Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF). “I will take on the challenge to investigate yung anomaly ng PDAF nya,” he said. “Na challenge ako. Ginanahan ako. Pina-research ko yung mga bulate sa Makati and in time ipe-present natin,” he said. The senator said Representative Binay supposedly allocated funds for organic fertilizers in Makati City, which he said has no agricultural Read More …

The Blue Ribbon Sub-Committee, chaired by Sen. Koko Pimentel, resumes its inquiry on the alleged overpricing of the 11-storey new Makati City II Parking Building, the 22-storey Makati City Hall Building and related anomalies. (MNS photo) MANILA, Apr 15 (Mabuhay) – Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is willing to reveal his sources to prove his allegation that two Court of Appeals (CA) justices were bribed to stop the suspension order against Makati Mayor Junjun Binay. “I got the information, validated it and found it to be true…We’re willing to talk to these informants if they’re willing to get burned,” he said. Trillanes said he also wants to summon the two justices to the Senate probe into the so-called “justice for sale” system in the CA, but that will be up to Senator Aquilino Pimentel III, chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice. The 2 CA justices – Jose Reyes Jr. and Francisco Acosta – have belied Trillanes’ claim, with Reyes calling it harassment. The Supreme Court has said it has sole jurisdiction over complaints against lawyers, judges, and magistrates. However, Trillanes believes that the Senate investigating the justices is part of the system of checks and balance. Amid criticism that he has no concrete evidence to back his claim of bribery, Trillanes said he will present past CA rulings to illustrate how the justices supposedly abused their discretion. “We will comb through their rulings, the past TROs they issued and show a pattern of behavior just like in past hearings and Read More …

Piolo Pascual exclusively shows to YES! Magazine his two houses in the U.S.—one in Las Vegas and the other in California.

President Benigno S. Aquino III witnesses as TESDA director general Emmanuel Joel Villanueva receives the ISO 9001:2008 Certificate from TUV SUD Philippines general manager Femelyn Lati in a ceremony at the Heroes Hall of the Malacañan Palace on Monday (April 13). Established in 1947, the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) certifies a government or private enterprise’s adherence to worldwide industrial and commercial standards of excellence. Also in photo is Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz. (MNS photo) MANILA (Mabuhay) – President Benigno Aquino III expressed hope Tuesday the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) would sustain its rise and reach the 9,000-10,000 levels before his term ends in 2016. In his speech after leading the bell ringing ceremony at the PSE trading floor, the President said the main index, which posted its all-time high of 8,127.48 points on April 10, 2015, has more than doubled when he had his first bell-ringing ceremony in 2010. He noted that in his almost five years in office, the PSEi was able to post 119 record-highs. This performance, he said “stands as a sound reminder of the optimism that continues to surround the Philippines.” The President noted that trading activity in the local bourse rose by 40 percent year-on-year to Php 641.59 billion as of March against the Php 457.08 billion of the same period in 2015. He also said that net foreign buying during the same period went up by 182 percent to Php 47.87 billion from year-ago’s Php 17.33 billion. And with the Read More …

Iya Villania on why she stalls plans of having a baby: “As much as possible, we just wanna enjoy this first.”