PDP-LABAN WANTS SORSOGON UNDER COMELEC CONTROL
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks)
SORSOGON CITY, Philippines (JGL) – A leader of PDP-Laban Party said April 6 that the party is asking the Commission on Elections to have the Sorsogon province and Sorsogon City under Comelec control to avoid the escalation of violence threat in...
ARMED MEN TERRORIZE POLITICAL RALLY
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2015 Journal GlobaLinks)
SORSOGON CITY, Philippines (JGL) -- Heavily armed men believed to be henchmen by a rival politician barged into an opposition rally of local candidates, poking their guns on the heads of father-and-son candidates for mayor and governor of the c...
GLOBAL PINOYS AND GP SUPPORTERS LAUD SC DECISION ON GRACE POE
By MEL T. VELASCO (Special to Journal GlobaLinks)
MANILA (JGL) -- “A victory for foundlings, global Pinoys and democracy.”
AQUINO SAYS HE WILL JOIN THE WORKFORCE WHEN HE STEPS DOWN
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks)
CHICAGO (JGL) – President Benigno S. Aquino III said Wednesday (Feb. 17) his administration is building so many schools, hospitals, rural health units, barangay health centers, roads, bridges, ports, airports during the last five years that hi...
PHL IMPROVES IN WORLD ECONOMIC FREEDOM RANKING
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks)
CHICAGO (JGL) – The Philippines has improved to 70th place from 76th in the 2016 Index of Economic Freedom ranking released Monday (Feb. 1) by the Heritage Foundation, a think
PH-US TIES NEVER BEEN STRONGER, SAYS DFA’s DEL ROSARIO
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA Correspondent) (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks)
CHICAGO (JGL) – With the stamp of approval of the EDCA by the Philippine Supreme Court behind his back, Secretary Albert del Rosario of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs described the Philippine-American bilateral rela...
US ENDS REVIEW OF PH WORKERS RIGHTS ABUSES
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA Correspondent (© 2015 Journal GlobaLinks)
CHICAGO (JGL) — The Office of the United States Trade Representative has announced that it has closed the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) review of worker rights abuses in the Philippines after the Philippines government a...