MANILA — The Department of Education (DepEd)on Wednesday cautioned parents of being lured to enrolling their children in unaccredited private schools.

MANILA — With the impeachment trial of convicted Chief Justice Renato Corona over, Senator Pia Cayetano renewed on Wednesday her appeal to her colleagues to pass Senate Bill 2865, or an act providing for a National Policy on Reproductive Health and Population and Development.

MANILA — Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr. urged the Career Executive Service Officers (CESOs) to adhere to the tenets of the Aquino government centered on promoting honesty, transparency and accountability in governance and spread the same values among the other members of the bureaucracy as he stressed the administration’s commitment to effect reforms and achieve sustainable progress and development in the country.

MANILA — The five provincial governors of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have expressed their full support to the proposed new autonomous political entity (NPE) being pursued by the peace panels of both the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) that would replace the ARMM.

MANILA — Saying that the Aquino administration is serious in weeding out grafters and corrupt officials from government, Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr. on Wednesday asked civil servants to shun this practice that has plagued the bureaucracy and help rebuild the moral foundation in public service.

MANILA — The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday approved the release in full of the 2011 Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net worth (SALN) of all justices and judges in the Philippines.

MANILA — The country’s two biggest business organizations have cited the determination of the Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, to put good governance the foremost priority in government service and a triumph of democracy as shown by the conclusion of the 44-day Impeachment Trial of the country’s chief magistrate, Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona.

MANILA — The Department of Education conducts a school mapping nationwide to prevent the structures to be built on geo-hazard locations.

MANILA — Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile asserted on Wednesday that not even the Supreme Court (SC) could reverse the guilty verdict that the Senate, sitting as impeachment court, rendered on Chief Justice Renato Corona last Tuesday.

MANILA — Senator Franklin Drilon denied on Wednesday a news report that labeled him as one of the possible candidates to replace convicted Renato Corona as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (SC).

MANILA — The Philippine on Wednesday successfully concluded the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of its human rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland.

MANILA — Seven appointments as Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (AEPs) in the Department of Foreign Affairs, including that of Sonia Cataumber-Brady to Beijing, were confirmed Wednesday by the Commission on Appointments (CA).

MANILA — Hog producers, chicken growers, including vegetable producers on Wednesday threatened to mount a "market holiday" if rampant smuggling of agricultural products would not be stopped.

MANILA — Senator Francis "Chiz" Escudero pushed on Wednesday for the passage of a bill that would require an individual working in the government to sign a waiver on bank secrecy.

MANILA — Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) head Director Samuel D. Pagdilao, Jr., denied reports that there is an ongoing rift between him and Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Nicanor A. Bartolome.