MANILA, July 31, 2009- Scores of bishops from across Asia are to meet in Manila to review obstacles and problems they face in their ministry, and to deliberate how they could get over it.

MANILA, July 28 -- President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo has signed the Executive Order imposing the Maximum Drug Retail Price (MDRP) on five drugs not compliant with the recommendation of the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

MILAOR, Camarines Sur, July 28- The Department of Agriculture (DA) had recently completed the construction of a 15.4-kilometer farm-to-market road (FMR) in this farming town that would benefit over 2,000 hectares of farmlands and about 2,000 households.

LEGAZPI CITY, July 30 (PNA) -- The Department of Health (DOH) regional office in Bikol has declared the entire province of Sorsogon as malaria and filariasis free province. Dr. Noli Arevalo, team leader of the Department of Health-Provincial Health Team (DOH-PHT), said the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control (NCDPC) has conducted thorough validation and evaluation regarding the control program on malaria and filarial in Sorsogon.

LEGAZPI CITY July 30(PNA) -- The Commission on Election (Comelec) in Bikol has successfully purged close to 200,000 voters' names considered by the poll body as double registrants or commonly called "flying voters" from the official voters lists across the region.

LEGAZPI CITY July 30(PNA) -- The Commission on Election (Comelec) in Bikol has successfully purged close to 200,000 voters' names considered by the poll body as double registrants or commonly called "flying voters" from the official voters lists across the region.

IRIGA CITY ---  Students of the Graduate School of the University of Northeastern Philippines (UNEP) doing research works can now avail of the unlimited trial access to unlimited reference materials through the online services of the Philippine eLib  aside from those already available in the school library, the UNEP librarian bared recently.

MANILA, July 27, 2009-The head of the Catholic bishops' leadership expressed dissatisfaction at President Arroyo's State of the Nation Address (SONA) Monday. Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines president Archbishop Angel Lagdameo said the SONA did not stick with the truth when Arroyo described the state of the nation.

TIWI, Albay, July 31- A total of 1,400 residents of this small town that plays host to a vast geothermal energy field have signed up as volunteer forest stewards under the Lingap Kalikasan (care for nature) Movement (LKM) organized as a forest conservation project by the municipal government.

LEGAZPI CITY- A NEW DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS (DPWH) Bicol director has formally assumed as head of the public works agency on Thurs. (July 30), after turn-over ceremonies held at the regional office here, led by DPWH Sec. Hermogenes Ebdane Jr.