The convoy of Food and Drug Administration Director General Nela Charade Puno is ambushed in Lupi town in Camarines Sur Thursday, October 18.<br /><br />Senator Nancy Binay takes a leave of absence from the United Nationalist Alliance or UNA, following the ongoing feud between siblings Junjun and Abby Binay over the Makati mayoralty race.<br /><br />Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and Presidential Spokesman Sal Panelo says martial law in Mindanao should be extended if it helps make the region more peaceful.<br /><br />The National Privacy Commission says of the 29 million accounts affected worldwide by the Facebook breach late September, almost 756,000 were based in the Philippines.<br /><br />The Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission won the first Asia RiverPrize Award, handed by the International River Foundation Tuesday, October 16.<br />
