THE New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has asked President Arroyo and Chief Justice Reynato Puno to order a full investigation into the threats being received by veteran journalist Marites Danguilan-Vitug following the publication of her book Shadow of Doubt: Probing the Supreme Court.
MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court (SC) was asked yesterday to reconsider its ruling last week allowing President Arroyo to appoint the next chief justice despite the ban on midnight appointments.
MANILA, Philippines-The militant fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) asked on Thursday newly installed Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Delfin Bangit the reason why despite his order for government troops not to obey unlawful orders from their most senior officers, officers and members of the armed forces are still engage in partisan politics and electioneering against militant party list groups and progressive candidates running in the May 2010 elections.
