Gloria Macapagal-arroyo News

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has been forced to admit that she had breast implant surgery in the 1980s, only a day after her spokesman described the notion as "absurd" amid speculation about her present state of health.

MANILA: A postponement of the general elections next year will be a cause for concern in Washington, US Ambassador Kristie Kenney said yesterday.

"Let the thing speak for itself." This was what Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said when pressed by Malacaang reporters to respond to a Manila Bulletin news article about President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's alleged removal and replacement of breast silicone implants at a prestigious hospital in Muntinlupa City early this week.

Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, who has cancer, left the intensive care unit and was in stable condition, her spokeswoman said Thursday, as prayers for her recovery poured in from friends and even political enemies.

"I don't remember anything," was all May Vecina could say when asked why she killed her seven-year old ward in Kuwait last January 6, 2007.

It is good that Filipino-American Melissa Roxas, a member of the US chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan , has announced that she would sue military agents who tortured her almost to the point of death.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will meet with the Kuok Group, the company behind the chain of five-star Shangri-La hotels in the Philippines, for possible fresh investments in the hotel and tourism industry.

The days of self-quarantine are over. Instead, the Department of Health called for "responsible self-monitoring," saying: "Travelers shall monitor [themselves] for 10 days after arrival, observe for signs and symptoms of influenza-like illness and submit to DoH national guidelines if [these symptoms develop]." Nearly two months since it went on ...

Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno interprets President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's frequent visits to her hometown in Pampanga province as signs that she'll be leaving the presidency in 2010.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and the rest of her travel cabinet secretaries will go on self-quarantine for an unspecified number of days when they returned on Saturday from a 10-day swing of Japan and Brazil with stopovers in the United States and Colombia, the presidential palace said Wednesday.

Video grab released by North Korean Television shows a three-stage white rocket, soaring away from launch site on April 5, 2009 from undisclosed location in North Korea.

MANILA: It will be a personally sentimental journey for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo when she steps on Brazil soil this week for the first ever State Visit of a Philippine President.

As anti nuclear plant activists started marching on Saturday to mark the 24th anniversary of the Welgang Bayan against the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant , Balanga Bishop Socrates Villegas expressed disgust at President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for considering nuclear power as an energy source.

The idea that Philippine President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo may run for Congress in the 2nd district of her home province of Pampanga in May 2010 exercises many of us.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo plans to leave office as president of the Philippines next year and run for Congress, a close ally in her cabinet said Friday.

GUNMEN killed two journalists in separate attacks in the central Philippines last week, a media watchdog said on Wednesday.

THE Commission on Elections on Tuesday said there is nothing wrong with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's plan to join the congressional race in next year's elections.

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Protesters want term limits Thousands of people led by left-wing and church groups turned out for a rally yesterday to protest moves to rewrite the Constitution that they said were a ploy to prolong President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo s stay in power.

MANILA: Don't expect to hear President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo talk about her plans when she steps down from office next year.