MANILA — The camp of Chief Justice Renato Corona filed on Wednesday an opposition to the request by the prosecution panel to subpoena the manager of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI)-Ayala branch to testify and bring documents in relation to bank account purportedly owned by Corona and wife, Cristina.

MANILA — Nerissa Josef, assistant vice president of Ayala Land, Inc. testified during the tenth day of the impeachment trial of Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Renato Corona on Article II paragraph 2.3 of the verified complaint as an ordinary witness.

MANILA — A meat inspection official has urged local government units in the National Capital Region to comply with the law and intensify the government's campaign against the influx of tainted meat in public markets.

MANILA — The Philippine Army has vowed to continue its development efforts in rebel-affected areas despite harassments by New People’s Army (NPA) following the killing of two soldiers and the wounding of another during a firefight in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental Monday.

MANILA — A company that advanced P11 million to Chief Justice Renato Corona in 2003 has no longer license to operate after it failed to submit the general information sheet (GIS) and the financial statement (FS) from 1991 to 1997, according to a witness at the impeachment trial of Corona.

MANILA — The prosecution panel of the House of Representatives claimed that the P11-million cash advance of Chief Justice Renato Corona from the Basa-Guidote Enterprises Inc. (BGEI) was of a “fictitious character.”

MANILA — Drivers and conductors of buses plying the Metro Manila route will now receive minimum wage and other wage-related benefits as the Department of Labor and Employment order No. 118-12 takes effect today.

MANILA — Senator-judge Lito Lapid finally stood up and threw his first clarificatory question in the ongoing historic impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona who has been accused of betrayal of public trust, culpable violation of the Constitution and graft and corruption.

MANILA — Quezon City Police District (QCPD) operatives on Wednesday arrested a robbery suspect who hit a student in the head and forcibly took her two laptop computers inside the University Student Council (USC) office of the University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman campus in Quezon City.

MANILA — The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila De Lima to comment on the disbarment complaint filed against her in connection with her alleged defiance of an SC order allowing former President and now Pampanga (2nd District) rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to seek medical treatment abroad in November last year.

MANILA — Director Benito Cataran of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) testified before the Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, that the agency has revoked the certificate of registration of Basa-Guidote Enterprises, Inc. (BGEI).

MANILA — Three Russian Navy ships, which saw action in anti-sea piracy campaign in Somalia, is in the country for a four-day goodwill visit.

MANILA — President Benigno S. Aquino III detailed Wednesday plans of the administration to help the transport sector cope with the effect of the continuing fuel price increases, part of which is to work out a 30-day buffer supply of petroleum products.

MANILA — President Benigno S. Aquino III stressed the importance of cooperation in the formulation of solutions to the challenges rather than being part of the problem as he urged them to continue supporting the government’s various efforts to effect reforms towards achieving sustainable progress and development in the country.

MANILA — Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio “Sonny” B. Coloma Jr. considers the creation of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) as a milestone showing the country’s new concept of governance where communication is utilized in pushing for the well-being and development of the Filipino people.