ANC: CBCP calls for moratorium on implementation of new mining EO. They've begun to gather signatures over the weekend  to push for alternative mining law. The bishops believe, a new EO wont solve problems in the mining industry.

ANC: CBCP calls for moratorium on implementation of new mining EO. They've begun to gather signatures over the weekend  to push for alternative mining law. The bishops believe, a new EO wont solve problems in the mining industry.

ANC: Activist gear up for protests. They will go to DENR to oppose new mining EO, saying PNoy did not hold enough consultation with stakeholders. They add, mining has brought nothing but environmental destruction, poverty, and human rights violations.

DZBB: Interview with arnold clavio: - Dr. Rusty Jimenez, President PHAP (Private Hospital Assn of the Philippines) "Except for regions 5, 6 and NCR south malaki utang ng philhealth sa mga private hospitals baka di na kami tumangap ng patients or magsara na lang. Marami pa problems like OFW records to private hospitals at  yung benefits on leukemia, cancer coverage at prostate cancer. Not all hospitals are accredited."

ANC: Fil-activists hold protest at PH Embassy in the Hague to condemn killing of Dutch aid worker in Pampanga. They demand action and justice from PNoy.

DZMM: Naaalarma na ang TUCP sa napakataas na bilang ng Child Labor sa bansa! Sinabi ni TUCP Rep Raymond Mendoza na mahigit 5 milyon na ang bilang nito ngayon base sa datos ng NSO. Lubha aniya itong malaki kumpara noong mga nakaraang taon...Iginiit ni Rep Mendoza na dapat magkaroon ng Periodic Monitoring ang gubyerno para matukoy ang dahilan ng paglobo ng Child Labor sa bansa at agad ding resolbahin.

ANC: The National Pres Club criticizes DOJ's plan to relocate media offices.

PHILSTAR: Ramon Casiple, executive director of the Institute of Political and Electoral Reform, urged the CCT program implementor, the DSWD, to plug in the defects in the dole-out system. Though the CCT implementation has been transferred to the DSWD from the local govt units, Casiple said there is still some wastage of the money, saying the funds FAILED to REACH its beneficiaries.

INQUIRER: Bishops start drive vs mining EO - Manila Aux Bishop Broderick Pabillo, head of the CBCP National Secretariat for Social Action (Nassa), launched the signature campaign to stop the implementation of  the EO during a 3-day plenary assembly of Catholic bishops that will be concluded Monday.

GMA7: The Supreme Court has affirmed a Commission on Elections ruling and denied a petition from the group Magdalo Para sa Pagbabago, led by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, to be accredited as a political party.