MANILA, July 10, 2009─Cotabato Archbishop Orlando B. Quevedo, OMI deplored the recent bombing in Cotabato City that left several people dead and wounded others, saying that the dastardly act "is a heinous crime that cries out to heaven."

MANILA, July 7, 2009-Roman Catholic bishops will choose one among them on July 11 who will serve the top post of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).

PARTY LIST GROUPS THAT DID NOT OBTAIN TWO PERCENT OF THE VOTES MAY STILL GET REPRESENTATION: Even party list groups that did not obtain at least two percent of the votes cast for party lists in any election may now be given a chance to install at least one congressman (or even more, in fact) in the House of Representatives.

LOS ANGELES, July 11 - The investigation into Michael Jackson's death continued on Friday, with the focus on painkillers the King of Pop may have used, and the doctors who gave them to him, the Los Angeles Times said on its website.

MANILA, July 11 -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has given drug companies 10 days or until July 18 to reduce their prices by half in line with the implementation of the cheaper medicines law. Press Secretary Cerge Remonde made this clear in a radio interview this morning as he brushed aside claims that Malacanang has something to do with the delayed implementation of the law.

GOVERNOR, ONE province, a town, one city, a commercial fi rm, and an individual were recipients of this year’s Saringaya Award of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Bikol Region.

CALABANGA, CAMARINES SUR    (July 9, 2009) -- THIS COASTAL TOWN IN THE BIKOL REGION has been nominated as among three prospective national awardees to receive the "Gawad Kalasag" award of the (NDCC) National Disaster Coordinating Council in this yearly observance of the "National Disaster Consciousness Month".

NAGA CITY ---- Nursing students and medical staff of the University of Northeastern Philippines (UNEP) assisted doctors, dentists and other health care professionals treat hundreds of poor patients at the Camarines Sur National High School (CSNHS) Pavilion  during the Bombo Medico 2009 activities of Bombo Radyo Philippines here recently.

The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has chosen Camarines Sur as Model Province for Region V in the implementation of Republic Act 9485, known as the Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007 (ARTA). Model provinces and cities of each region were identified for their having completed their respective Citizen's Charters, set up Public Assistance and Complaint Desks and adopted measures to stop fixing activities in their jurisdictions.

The deadline of the 6th Premio Tomas Arejola para sa Literaturang Bikolnon (PTALB) has been extended to the end of July, this year. This is in response to requests from literary quarters all over the region, according to Carlos Arejola, chair of the annual literary competition.