ABS-CBN News compiled the biggest story for each month of the year 2008 to come up with the Top 12 Stories of the year.

In chronological order, here are the Top 12 Stories of 2008:

1. The fall of Jose De Venecia

2. ZTE scandal, Lozada’s testimony

3. The rice price crisis

4. Oil price hikes

5. Winston Garcia goes after Meralco

6. The kidnapping of Ces Drilon

7. Disaster at sea: the MV Princess of the Stars tragedy

8. Scandal in the Court of Appeals

9. Melamine contaminated milk

10. The global financial crisis

11. The aborted GRP-MILF MOA on Ancestral Domain

12. Pacquiao’s victory over De la Hoya

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