MANILA, Philippines - The three major owners of broadcast company GMA Network will sell their stakes to a buyer that will offer P100 billion for 100 percent of the company.

MANILA, Philippines - A man was killed while his wife was wounded when a former Marine armed with a hand grenade held them hostage for nearly two hours inside a residential building in Sampaloc, Manila yesterday afternoon.

When rice stocks aren’t rotting away in warehouses, tons of the staple are wasted due to the lack of post-harvest facilities. A report obtained by the House committee on agriculture and food from the Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension said the country is losing over P30 billion worth of rice every year due to …

MANILA, Philippines - Four months after his impeachment, Chief Justice Renato Corona will finally testify in his trial on Tuesday, with his lawyers given the remaining days of this week to help him prepare his testimony.

“Oh, how sweet of you!”

MANILA, Philippines - Celebrated boxing trainer Freddie Roach is waiting for Filipino protégé Marvin Somodio to join his staff at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles but the 28-year-old former amateur fighter from Iloilo has twice been denied a US visa and is still working on a third application.

MANILA, Philippines - Ryan Dominguez, an alleged leader of the Dominguez carjacking group, has been formally charged before the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the killing of government witness Alfred Mendiola and two others.

The government has in its files personal information about every Filipino who has been issued a passport, a driver’s license or a residence certificate. Personal information is also obtained by the government for income tax payments, voter registration, marriage, public health insurance coverage, security clearance for …

MANILA, Philippines - A prosecution spokesman yesterday said the dizzying movement of funds in Chief Justice Renato Corona’s dollar accounts as alleged by Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales in the impeachment trial is proof of money laundering.

GLENDALE, California — Ai-Ai de las Alas and Miguel Vera are a couple to behold this Sunday afternoon, so sweet are they that if you didn’t know that they’re no longer “on,” you will think that they still are.

MANILA, Philippines - Promoters for pound-for-pound superstars Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. voiced out varying proposals as to how the revenue should be split, if and when the megabuck fight the world wants to see would eventually materialize.

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines  – Eleven people were killed when a passenger jeepney fell into a deep ravine in Mountain Province last Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines - A Quezon City court sentenced seven men to life imprisonment for kidnapping a Filipino-Chinese woman in 2003.

No one will argue with the need to protect marine ecosystems and prevent overfishing. In this sense, the fishing ban declared by China every summer since 1999 should be welcome news. If the usual 10-week period could be extended, it would be even better for marine ecosystems in this region.

MANILA, Philippines - Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales presented evidence yesterday of alleged “circuitous” bank transactions of Chief Justice Renato Corona involving millions of dollars that he did not declare in his official asset statement.

MANILA, Philippines - Samsung Electronics Philippines Corp. (SEPCO) showcased its newest home entertainment products, including TV and AV products that are more intuitive, more connected and more adaptable to the industry’s rapid pace of innovation, at the 2012 Samsung AV Roadshow held recently at the NBC Tent in Bonifacio …

“Lindsay was here!”

MANILA, Philippines - After getting the monkey off his back, reigning WBO flyweight champion Brian Viloria finally has time to take boxing off his mind.