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NAGA CITY-A two-year-old toddler in this city lost a leg when he was ran over by a Philippine National Railways (PNR) train Friday (November 20) morning.

According to a report of the Barangay Tabuco substation of the Naga City Police Office, victim James Silvino was hit by the train bound to Sipocot, Camarines Sur at about 9:30 AM after he had wandered off a portion of the railway in Barangay Triangulo while playing.

Barangay residents rushed the toddler to the Bicol Medical Center where he is now undergoing surgical operation, the police said.

LEGAZPI CITY, Nov. 17 -- Mayon volcano continues to exhibit intense crater glow and is emitting fluctuating sulfur dioxide gas signs, that magma is developing and moving up to the volcano's vent.

This prompted the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) to request and install additional seismic equipment to closely monitor the restive behavior of the volcano.

CASIGURAN, Sorsogon, Nov. 18 - A wounded young dolphin that ran aground at the shoreline of Sorsogon Bay here on Wednesday was rescued by fishermen and released back to the sea after receiving treatment from a local veterinarian.

Fishermen Pedro Gualvez, Leolito Lagata and Isidro Olario were about to go fishing early morning today when they spotted the dolphin weakened by a wound sustained near its abdomen as it struggled the waves that dumped it into the shoreline.

PILI, CamSur (November 18) - Provincial employees are set to receive an unexpected windfall as Governor LRay Villafuerte announced that all employees of the provincial government will be given an additional P10,000 cash gift payable before Christmas.

Governor Villafuerte personally delivered the good news at the Capitol main building lobby early this month during the opening ceremonies of the maiden staging of the Gov. LRay Sportsfest 2009.

True to its mission of turning its graduates into real educators, the University of Northeastern Philippines (UNEP) has reasons to celebrate and pass on its good wishes to the ten (10) Education graduates after successfully passing the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) this October and making it to the list of new educators.

LEGAZPI CITY, Nov. 17 -- Close to 70,000 poor families in Albay would benefit to the full implementation of "Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program" (4Ps), the Arroyo administration's flagship poverty reduction program.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and the Provincial Government of Albay (PGA) to be represented by Governor Joey Salceda are set to sign the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the full implementation of the 4Ps set on Nov. 24 at Malacañang.

We express support to the Regional Development Council which is headed by Albay Governor Joey Salceda for ordering the temporary suspension.of the Libmanan-Cabusao Dam Project, the controversial multi-million "promise". of Mrs.Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her son, Congressman Dato Arroyo to Libmanan farmers when Cong. Arroyo was just about to run for office.

On television a few days ago, Sen. Nene Pimentel expressed his non-support of Noynoy Aquino.

"He needs more seasoning," Sen. Pimentel said.

Admittedly, while Noynoy has surged passed all the other presidentiables in surveys after surveys, Sen. Pimentel is correct to a point.

People are lining up for doomsday. The queue is happening in cinema houses where the film by Robert Emmerich called 2012 is being shown.

KAN NAKAULAY TAKA PO, MAYOR Raul Matamorosa, makusog an pagsabi mong bilang alkalde kan banwaan, prayoridad mo an kamugtakan kan mga taga-Lupi. Alagad, an sinabi mong ini garo natunaw kan sinabi mo man sako na mayong plano an lokal na gobyerno kan Lupi na kontrahon an proyekto kan mag-inang Gloria asin Dato na dam diyan sa Malaguico, Sipocot, na maglulublob sa banwaan na saimong pinamamayohan.

MANILA - The more your hear and see the less you know. This seems to best describe what politicians articulate during press conferences and say in public, the current leading candidates for president included. They seem merely content with vague slogans: for Sen. Noynoy Aquino - "pagbabago" (change), Sen. Manny Villar - "sipag at tiyaga" (industriousness and persistence), Defense Sec.

November 9, 2009. Paris is singing for freedom. Thousands have gathered on the Palace de la Concorde to celebrate Germany and Europe. In Los Angeles a wall is being torn down. In Warsaw people are dancing on a wall and another wall is bricked up on the Spanish Stairs in Rome. In London a wall of ice bricks is gradually fading, melting till disappear. November 9 is a day the world celebrates with Germany.

It is the day the Berlin Wall fell.

MUMBAI, India (UCAN) -- As people recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the news was full of euphoric memories as well as critical analysis. Berlin's Archbishop Cardinal Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky pointed out that there are still fundamental differences across that former East-West border.

I delivered the invocation to AGMA (Annual General Membership Assembly) of CASURECO II last October 31, 2009 held at the Civic Center, Naga City. And this is my story.

I learned about a new mechanism that ensures substantial and sustained involvement of civil society in addressing human rights issues in our country. In a Training Conference on Human Rights of Women in Southeast Asia sponsored by the Swedish International Development Agency, a representative from the United Nations Human Rights Council introduced this mechanism called the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).