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MANILA — The United States is planning the expansion of its military presence in the Philippines, including the stationing of US Navy ships on a temporary basis and the conduct of more frequent joint exercises, in response to China’s growing assertiveness in the Asia Pacific. Philippine defense and military officials confirmed a Washington Post report [...]

BACOLOD CITY—Negros Occidental Representative Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo Jr., was reported dead Thursday night after being taken off life support in London. Iggy Arroyo, a younger brother of Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo, the husband of former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, was put on life support at London Clinic after suffering cardiac arrest at [...]

MANILA — Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, who electrified the impeachment proceedings at the Senate with her sharp tongue and sharper mind, had to go home early on Thursday because her blood pressure shot up after grilling one of the private prosecutors. Tom Tolibas, Santiago’s media relations officer, said that after questioning private prosecutor Arthur Lim, the [...]

MANILA - The camp of Chief Justice Renato Corona formally asked the Senate impeachment court yesterday to have Sen. Franklin Drilon removed as judge for his being “openly partial and biased” for the prosecution. In seeking Drilon’s disqualification as senator-judge, the defense camp noted that he has lost the “cold neutrality” of a judge, thus undermining [...]