Unfair to Senator Mar Roxas

With all due respect to parties concerned, it appears that Senator Mar Roxas may have been unwittingly placed in an awkward situation when he lauded a move by the Supreme Court slapping a temporary restraining order on a preliminary injunction imposed by a lower court against the passport project of the Department of Foreign Affairs. (Alvin Capino's column in Manila Standard Today)

DFA to proceed with e-passports in July

Senator Manuel Roxas II visited the DFA’s passport division the day after the Supreme Court allowed the production of the machine-readable passports and talked to the officials about the passport modernization project. “It is good that the DFA can now proceed with the implementation of the e-passport. With this modernization program, our passports will become more acceptable to other countries," said Roxas. (GMANews)

Roxas urges gov't to set up integrated plan for Pandacan oil depot

Senator Mar Roxas on Friday urged the government to come up with an "integrated plan" that would ensure of smooth, fair and orderly execution of the Supreme Court's decision to close down the Pandacan Oil Depot. (Balita)