By Roel Landingin, PHILIPPINE CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM Editor's note: The first part reported on the apparent haste to push through with P52-billion Laiban Dam project in Rizal province, potentially the biggest infrastructure projects to be launched by the...
Under fire: Gordon Brown is hoping the Bill will become law before the recess, but there are concerns it is being rushed through Parliament too quickly Gordon Brown came under fire today for trying to fast-track ‘cobbled together’ new laws designed to clean...
Regulators rein in troubled bank owned by Federal regulators say a Rhode Island bank owned by Boston’s First Marblehead Corp. has an excessive amount of private student loans on its balance sheet and not enough capital to absorb potential losses. That’s...
THE Black Saturday royal commission has ordered the Brumby government to submit full details of new bushfire safety measures, after accusing it of leaving the inquiry in "limbo" by not providing information on the plan in advance. Senior counsel assisting the inquiry...
SAN FRANCISCO -- It might take Californians a puff or two to get their heads around an apparent contradiction recently enshrined in state law. The same marijuana smoke that doctors can recommend to ease cancer patients' suffering must soon come with a warning saying it...
ISLAMABAD The Pakistani government appealed a court decision that freed a founder of the groupIndia blames for last year's Mumbai terrorist attacks, saying Monday it believed the man was still a security threat. Hafiz...
By Charles Aldinger, ReutersJuly 6, 2009 11:01 AM Vietnam-era U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara grapples with his role in history in 'The Fog of War' by documentarian Errol Morris. Photograph by: Claire Folger/Sony Pictures Classics, WASHINGTON -- Former Defense...