NAGA CITY, June 3 (PNA) --- A regional political party known as Ako Bicol is vying in the forthcoming party-list elections in May 2010. Ako Bicol officials were even optimistic that Bicolano voters would support and vote for the homegrown political group. Arthur Monares, president of Ako Bicol, said the group would primarily focus on laws that improve the livelihood, education and health of Bicolanos and non-Bicolanos alike.

Camarines Sur - A source from the underground world of Jueteng blew the whistle on the numbers game's increasing popularity in this province. The insider, who chose to be known by his alias, "Rod", said that for the past three years, Jueteng has spread unchecked under the protection of several key figures in Camarines Sur.

MANILA, June 5, 2009- Catholic bishops are calling on the people to go to the streets to denounce Charter change via constituent assembly (Con-ass). Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo said the people should air their sentiments against the planned mode for Constitutional amendments before it's too late.

MAHÎBOG AN BALAOG na na himo kan nakakaagi pa sanáng Juliana Arejola-Fajardo Workshop sa Pagsurat-Bikol. Sa ika-anom taon, malinaw an tabang na pagláom na itinatao kaini sa kabilogan kan literaturang Bikol. Nagpapahiling ini na may laad an aspektong ini kan satong kultura.

Max ’s enlightens customers through their sense of taste by offering new, delicious, vibrant and freshly prepared dishes in addition to its all time favorite “Sarap-to-the- Bones” fried chicken. Over the years, Max’s only uses the freshest and highest quality ingredients and has been continuously developing more appetizing, palatial but affordable cuisine.

Has the VFA served its avowed purpose? Or has it only reinforced the unequal alliance between the Philippines and the United States, a relationship so tilted in the Americans' favor that to call the VFA a treaty - with all the word's connotation of equal rights, benefits and privileges - would be a travesty?

NAGA CITY (May 28) - "12 women die everyday because of cervical cancer." This was the statement of Dr. Grace Chan, Program Manager of the Cervical Cancer Prevention (CECAP) Network Program last May 27 at the SM Mall Atrium during their campaign against cervical cancer.

NAGA CITY-Eleven residents of the villages of Lupi and Cawaynan in Tinambac,Camarines Sur said they were ready to speak against the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, which they said lied when it reported in February this year that a 150-hectare reforestation project area in their village already had been fully planted with trees. They said it was not true that the first phase of implementation of the reforestation project of DENR in their village already had been completed.

IRIGA CITY --- Fully aware of the financial difficulties of parents during enrollment period, the University of Northeastern Philippines (UNEP) has launched its "P1,000 Enroll Agad Program" to make it easy for students to pursue their education this school year, aside from the numerous scholarship grants it is offering to deserving students, the top official of the university said.

NAGA CITY—The only Jesuit learning institution in Bikol region is also the first among all other schools and universities in the country to have institutional accreditation from Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU). Ateneo de Naga University (AdNU) beat all the major Manila-based universities to the accreditation.