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Naga City (11 August) -- In line with the celebration of the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), the Bicol Medical Center conducted various activities aimed on raising the awareness of mothers on the importance of breastfeeding, not just for the benefit of their child but also on its over all impact on the wellness of the breastfeeding mother.

LEGAZPI CITY (13 Aug) -- ABOUT 3.3 million bags of imported rice mostly from Vietnam have been delivered to the National Food Authority (NFA) in Bikol, with the last batches of deliveries unloaded at Tabaco Port May 11 and 18 this year.

NFA Assistant Regional Director for Administration, Angie Bergonia, revealed that there are no pending deliveries for imported rice in Bikol after its completion of delivery last May.

MALAYBALAY, Bukidnon, August 4, 2010- The country and its people should brace for a more serious form of corruption should President Benigno Aquino III support the sex education in public schools and reproductive health bill.

This is how Dipolog Bishop Jose Manguiran looks at the present situation.

NAGA City, August 1, 2010- As the investigation gets underway, a prelate urged the public to avoid unnecessary speculation on the death of Fr. Baltazar Acompañado Jr., and wait for more information to become available.

Following media speculation that the priest committed suicide, Caceres Archbishop Leonardo Legaspi said people should avoid it as a matter of respect for the 35-year old priest.

Acompañado was found dead inside his room at the Pre-College Seminary in San Jose town in Camarines Sur last Wednesday with a 38-caliber revolver near his body.

Known for its commitment in promoting quality and excellent education, the University of Northeastern Philippines (UNEP) will once again prove its steadfast stand on providing available venues that would enhance its student's capability, particularly in terms of public discourse and writing.

PILI, Camarines Aug 5  -- The Philippine Army (PA) is "inviting" the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and all other groups advocating human rights to step into the reported use of children by the New People's Army (NPA) as human shields during a recent clash with soldiers in Camarines Sur.

NAGA CITY (4 Aug) -- A FIRE that gutted a two-storey wooden boarding house in No. 12 Santiago 1, St. at Barangay Peñafrancia here killed two women and hurt three others during the early dawn of Tuesday (Aug.3).

Naga City Fire Marshall, Chief Insp. Achilles M. Santiago, told VOX BIKOL that the two women victims, an elderly woman identified as Aida Canuto Ausen, 68, a native of Pili Camarines Sur and Cristina Reis, 19, a midwifery student of Camarines Sur Community College were trapped in their rooms at the second floor of the house during the height of the blaze.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, JulY 30, 2010 (CNA/EWTN News).- Nobody could lead the Church without the assistance of God, said Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday.

Bishop Francisco Gainza Trade Fair invites Bikolano entrepreneurs and exhibitors on September 9 to 20, 2010 at SM City Naga Open Parking A, B & C.  The trade fair will feature processed food, homestyle and living (furniture, gifts, toys, housewares and wearables), tourism services, organic and natural products, religious and souvenir items.

Institutions such as LGUs, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, banks, financing institutions, foundations and similar organizations are also invited to present their programs, services and advocacies.

MANILA, July 31, 2010- The country's "Joan of Arc" and "Icon of Democracy" will be remembered in Sunday Masses in various Catholic churches across the country as the nation remembers the first death anniversary of former President Corazon Aquino.

It will be recalled the mother of current President Benigno Simeon Aquino III succumbed to colon cancer at the Makati Medical Center last Aug.1, 2009.

At 10:30 a.m., Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas will celebrate a special Mass for the late chief executive at La Salle Greenhills in Mandaluyong City.

LEGAZPI CITY, July 27 -- Unidentified gunmen shot dead the other day two people inside a videoke bar in Lupi town in Camarines Sur, belated reports reaching Camp Simeon Ola on Tuesday said.

The report identified the victims as Ruben Idanan and Vicente Dulison, natives of Lupi town.

SPO2 Alexie Virata said at least three identified assailants stormed at around 10 a.m over the weekend Merly's bar a videoke joint in Brgy. Mamalao in Lupi town and shot to death the two victims.

LEGAZPI CITY, July 26  - Albay is emerging as the economic hub in the region as it continuously leads and surpasses its internal revenue collection goal among the six Bicol provinces, the local Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) office said.

BIR report claimed that of the P2.4-billion tax collected for the first semester of this year, P901 million or 37 percent came from Albay, followed by Camarines Sur with P787 million; Camarines Norte - P257 million; Masbate - P197 million; Sorsogon - P180 million and Catanduanes with P103 million.