Aimed at boosting their vision of providing quality education and instructive exposure to their faculty members and educators, the University of Northeastern Philippines ' (UNEP), represented by Dr. Violeta Lomibao, Dean of the College of Education attended a 3-day benchmarking tour spearheaded by the Philippine Association for Teacher Education or PAFTE.

CAMP ELIAS ANGELES, PILI, CAMARINES SUR-AN ARMY Spokesman of the 9th Infantry Division based in this camp had revealed that recent documents captured from rebels during an encounter indicated that the CPP-NPA-NDF had directed the elimination of some high-ranking army personnel during encounters and ambuscades. 9th Inf. Division, PA spokesman Major Harold Cabunoc disclosed that the information was uncovered in documents recovered by army troopers during an encounter with 10 NPA rebels in the remote barangay of Marangi in San Fernando, Camarines Sur last April 28.

LEGAZPI CITY, April 30 -- At least two people died and three others wounded on Thursday when fired at by unidentified gunmen in a village in Oas town in Albay, an Army official said Friday. Killed were Rochele Tupasi, 32, and Ronald Marco, 31. Wounded were Ronald, 28, Roderick, 21 and Rogelio, Jr. all surnamed Adonis.

Camarines Sur Province (30 April) -- Magarao town in this province has won the first-ever National Zero Basura Olympics cited among the fourth to sixth class municipalities with most innovative and effective approaches managing solid waste.

Legazpi City (30 April) -- The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Bikol has ordered the cessation of operation of the Artemis Salt Corporation in Tabaco City for failure to secure Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) and other permits. "Dai magpapadagos an operasyon kan Artemis Salt Corp. sagkod dai sinda nagkaka-igwa nin ECC (There'll be no operation of Artemis Salt Corp. until they've secured an ECC)", EMB V regional director Gilbert Gonzales underscored in an interview.

LEGAZPI CITY, April 29 --A police officer assigned at the Highway Patrol Group (HPG) here is in hot water following complaints of extracting money from a truck driver who delivered election paraphernalia's to the Commission on Election (COMELEC) regional office here.

LEGAZPI CITY, April 27, --- As the national and local political campaign heats up in Bikol, state monetary authorities are closely checking the proliferation of counterfeit peso bills and coins circulating specifically in the island provinces of Masbate and Catanduanes.

MASBATE CITY, April 29 -- Showing their sincerity and determination to end the culture of violence in this island province of Bikol specially during times of election, Congressman Antonio Kho and his wife Governor Elisa on Tuesday handed over to state authorities 23 high powered firearms and ammunition.

I am forever playing the music of Rosita de la Vega, the Queen of Novelty Songs in the 40s and the 50s. In that rare collection made accessible by a group of enthusiasts who are able to resurrect all the torch singers and balladeers of the gilded age of Peacetime and Wartime and Post wartime is the song "Mambo Magsaysay." The jingle is considered the most popular political jingle of all time. It was composed by Raul Manglapus and forms a most unlikely dyad with this other popular piece - not a song this time - the speech, "Land of Bondage,Land of the Free."

In December 2005, British newspaper The Guardian ran an article on Mabey & Johnson Ltd., a British firm "accused of making excessive profits in an aid project, by building what their critics call bridges to nowhere". The Guardian cited Haresco, of the President's Bridges Program, as the Philippine contact of the British firm.