MANILA, Philippines - Before reviving Charter change, government should first release needed funds to the Commission on Elections to implement automated polls in 2010, a poll watchdog group said.

MANILA, Philippines - Despite its initial failure to get Filipinos out of the Gaza area Monday, the Foreign Affairs Department is sticking to its evacuation plans for Filipinos there.

MANILA, Philippines - President Arroyo bared the government's "Two Ps" formula to attain peace in Mindanao, involving peace talks and projects for peace.

MANILA, Philippines - An Australian corn trader was found dead inside his house in Ajuy town in Iloilo province, even as police suspect foul play in his death.

MANILA, Philippines - Beleaguered Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) chief Dionisio Santiago received much-needed moral support from a Catholic bishop in his fight against a supposed bribery try for the release of three scions of wealthy families.

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey - Police searched garbage dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania on Tuesday for the body of a baby apparently thrown out with the trash at a Jersey City hospital sometime in the past two weeks.

MANILA, Philippines - The Customs bureau (BoC) exceeded its collection target for 2008, preliminary data showed.

WASHINGTON - Even as Federal Reserve officials slashed their key interest rate to a record low and pledged to use other unconventional tools to fight the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, they still feared the US economy would be stuck in a painful rut for some time.

MANILA, Philippines - Maynilad Water Services, Inc. will spend P168.1 billion until the end of its concession in 2022 to provide sewerage and sanitation services to Metro Manila"s east zone.

MANILA, Philippines - An automotive company and the Customs bureau have strengthened their anti-counterfeiting partnership, resulting in the confiscation of fake general purpose engines along the country"s borders.