MANILA, Philippines - The two vehicles had 184 bullet holes and all the windows were rolled up. How could the 13 passengers have opened fire on a police-military checkpoint?

Senior Philosophy student Javier Leonardo V. Rugeria becomes the eighth student from the Ateneo de Naga University to win the Search for ten Jose Rizal Model Students of the Philippines (JRMSP).

RAGAY, CAMARINES SUR – A remote coastal village along the Ragay Gulf has become the sanctuary and docking area of commercial fishing vessels equipped with prohibited fishing gears like “ring net”, locally known as “kalansisi”, “Likum-likum”, “Kubkub” and the modified Danish Seine or “Bulibuli”, “Hulbot-hulbot” or “zipper” -- all prohibited under Republic Act 8550 or “the Philippine Fisheries Code”.

Doc Ferds Recio travels to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia to look for what villagers call “the man-eater”. This animal, according to locals, kills and eats humans in their community. In 2010, a 19-year old girl working in a palm oil plantation was attacked and killed by the “man-eater”.

Fresh from the box-office success of his Metro Manila Film Festival entry “Si Enteng, Si Agimat at Si Ako”, Sen. Bong Revilla Jr. faces 2013 with his biggest project to date with the Kapuso Network.

Broadcast giant GMA Network, Inc. (GMA) ended 2012 on a positive note, leading other local free-to-air channels in full year nationwide TV ratings for the second consecutive year, according to data from the industry's leading ratings service provider, Nielsen TV Audience Measurement.

DAET, CAMARINES NORTE--The bishop this capital town has ordered the creation of a new fact-finding group that will probe on the blaze that gutted a 400-year old church in the Parish of San Pedro Apostle in Vinzons, Camarines Norte in the early dawn of Dec. 26, 2012.

GMA Network, in its reply to Sarah Lahbati’s latest tweets, maintains that the actress – a homegrown talent developed, trained, and promoted by GMA – has violated its contract with the network.

In the said statement the Kapuso Network said that it is “not going to comment at this time on the other statements of Sarah Lahbati that has no relevance to the violation of her contract with GMA.” It further added that the walk-out incident involving the actress is still being investigated.

1. GMA maintains its position that Sarah Lahbati violated her contract with the network.
2. The walk-out incident from a taping of Sarah Lahbati is still being investigated. We welcome Sarah's denial that she walked out from that taping and her denial will expedite the action(s) we will take depending on the result of our investigation because there will no longer be any need to ask her to explain.
3. We are not going to comment at this time on the other statements of Sarah Lahbati that has no relevance to the violation of her contract with GMA.

"Last December, Sarah Lahbati unilaterally decided to take a leave of absence of one (1) month from GMA Network, because she said she wanted to de-stress and unwind. Because her reasons were vague, they were not accepted by management. While we understand that work in our industry can be stressful (as in any business), we believe that this is not only unavoidable in most cases, but also a part of what one does as a professional and/or performing artist.