QUEZON CITY. Nov 23 (PIA) -- The Kaya Natin! Movement for Good Governance and Ethical Leadership (KN) and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) have launched yesterday "Gov 101: A New Voter's Guide to the Philippine Government" at the Ateneo de Manila University-School of Government.

MANILA, Philippines - From among 1.5 million applicants in the recently-concluded general voters registration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has rejected 236,489.

MANILA, Philippines – In more than half of the country’s 80 provinces, the major candidates for governor—like in other levels of local government—are old faces.

What’s more interesting, however, is that many of them are current or former congressmen, obviously seeking promotion as chief executives of larger geopolitical turfs.

THREE MORE. The SC saved 3 additional partylist groups from being disqualified by Comelec.

MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court stopped the Commission on Elections on November 20 from disqualifying 3 other partylist groups from the 2013 midterm elections.

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Their patriarch and major members of the clan are in jail for the Nov. 23, 2009 massacre of political rivals and journalists, but the Ampatuans will be very much around come campaign season in Maguindanao.