Legal office gunned down 2 civilians over traffic altercation.

A city hall legal officer is in a hot seat after allegedly gunning down two people during a traffic spat in Pasig City Tuesday afternoon.

Pasig Mayor Robert Eusebio said lawyer Manito Hernandez would be dismissed from service even as two counts of homicide have been filed against him before the City Prosecutors Office.

The incident stemmed from a traffic altercation around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Barangay San Antonio near Gen. Roxas Street corner Shaw Boulevard when Hernandez who was on board a gray Toyota Corolla went ahead of Canizares, who was in a silver gray Nissan Cefiro (XSA 205) with Palmero at the village entrance.


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ABC Network says sorry for 'racial' slur

ABC Network says sorry for 'racial' slur

The producers of the hit TV series "Desperate Housewives" on Thursday issued an apology for an insulting line that belittled the practitioners of the medical profession in the Philippines.

"The producers of Desperate Housewives and ABC Studios offer our sincere apologies for any offence caused [by the insulting remark] in the season premier," ABC Network said in a short statement of apology obtained by ABS-CBN North America News Bureau.

ABC Network added: "There was no intent to disparage the integrity of any aspect of the medical community in the Philippines."

The network's apology came after the Filipino community, particularly Filipino health workers, in the US and doctors in the Philippines deplored the insulting line uttered by actress Teri Hatcher's character, Susan Mayer in the show's Season 4 premier aired Sunday.

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Nobody will own the left position - GMA

PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo will not appoint a new chairman at the Commission on Elections (Comelec), because Benjamin Abalos is considered on terminal leave for four months despite resigning from his post Monday, the Palaces lawyer said.

As this developed, Abalos said he continues to support the Arroyo administration, while Mayor Benjamin Benhur Abalos Jr. of Mandaluyong City appealed to the media and public to go easy in judging his father.

Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Sergio Apostol said Malacaang will just let Abaloss leave credits be consumed so as to complete his seven-year tenure as head of the Comelec. In the meantime, senior Comelec Commissioner Resurreccin Borra will be officer in charge.

Legally speaking, the Comelec chairmanship is not vacant because even [if] Chairman Abalos left office, he still has to consume his leave credits the President believes that the OIC can handle the job well, Apostol said.

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Abalos resigns, Arroyo off to China, Camps on Red Alert

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her official delegation left for China shortly before dawn Tuesday in a bid to drum up more investments amid the controversy surrounding the $329.4-million contract with ZTE Corp.

Radio dzBB reported that Mrs Arroyo boarded a chartered Philippine Airlines PR-001 flight for Shanghai and left at about 5:50 a.m. Her departure came less than two days after her arrival from the United Nations.

The report said she did not deliver a departure statement. It described President Arroyo, who wore a black outfit, as relaxed and smiling to well-wishers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).

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