MANILA - The Philippines is one of the biggest sources of migrant labor, with about 10 percent of its population spread in countries around the world. Their billions and billions of dollars in remittances every year have helped prop up the economy and serve as a lifeline to their families back home.

NAGA CITY - - THE POLICE PROVINCIAL OFFICE (PPO) here has directed municipal police stations to activate an "operation plan" in towns were recent armed robberies have occurred and to step-up drive against organized criminal elements, responsible for the armed robberies in the last two months.

PILI, Camarines Sur, May 18 -- A suspected New People's Army (NPA) leader was slain in a clash with government troopers in a remote village in Lagonoy town in Camarines Sur on Sunday, a Philippine Army officer said Monday.

MANILA, May 21, 2009-If the clergy and laity will be ordered to abandon their work in Gawad Kalinga (GK) communities nationwide, the poor families who benefit from the renowned housing program are sure to suffer.

PILI, CAMSUR-The Provincial Government of Camarines Sur in collaboration with the regional office of the Department of Health conducted an orientation seminar on Influenza A (H1N1) Tuesday, May 19 at Regent Hotel to inform and educate participants on the salient points of this virus which originated in Mexico and now inexorably spreading to different parts of the world.

SEOUL, May 19 (PNA/Yonhap) -- Leaders of the world's 80 largest cities that produce a majority of the earth's harmful greenhouse gases opened an international forum in Seoul Tuesday, calling on governments to swiftly chart strategies to fight global warming.

NABUA, CAMARINES SUR - A LOCAL RESIDENT here, who were among three suspects in the slaying of a young nurse in Monterey Village, Naga City in August 20, 2008, was shot to death by a gunman inside her residence at Zone 6, Barangay Lourdes Young in this town, the local police reported to the police provincial office on last May 16.

TIGAON CAMARINES SUR (May 19) - The discovery of the lifeless and mutilated body of a girl on a corn field at Zone 5, Brgy. Talojongon, Tigaon has shocked the whole of Partido area in this province.

NAGA CITY -- A bill filed by Camarines Sur Second District Congressman Luis R. Villafuerte creating five congressional districts for the province is still facing opposition, now in its last leg of deliberation in the Senate.

The big mall has arrived. The streets have been rerouted. A long strip divides the Panganiban Street and the word “coding” is introduced. People recalled the opening day: it was as if a blast has create a vacuum somewhere and people have been sucked into the chaos and crowd. The other department stores, they say, looked like abandoned lovers.