Two fishing vessels were detained by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) for breaching licence conditions by ...

A Supreme Court ruling abandoning the “second placer rule” in election cases has become a test for recent poll disputes.

The second placer in local elections cannot be proclaimed winner in lieu of the disqualified first placer, the Supreme Court ...

The Supreme Court (SC) has struck down the controversial “second placer rule,” long used by the Commission on Elections ...

Candidates who garnered the second highest number of votes, or the “second placers” in elections, cannot be proclaimed when ...

Mangudadatu, however, will return as Governor of Sultan Kudarat on June 30, having been elected last May 12 to a three-year ...

The Supreme Court has discarded the long-standing "second placer rule," which previously allowed the candidate who ranked second in an election to assume office if the original winner was disqualified ...

The Supreme Court says the second-placer rule has no legal basis. It says the vice governor should become governor when the ...

THE Supreme Court has upheld the 2022 decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to cancel the certificate of ...

A 59-year-old man was arrested during Op Bakau yesterday for allegedly encroaching into the Lahad Datu Forest Reserve. Lahad ...