PNA Bicol

LEGAZPI CITY, April 3 (PNA) -- The No. 7 in the provincial drug watchlist of Albay, the leader of the Embido drug and gunrunning syndicate, fell into the hands of the law after he engaged in a shootout police officers who were supposed to serve a search warrant in his house at Purok 3, Barangay Paulog, Ligao City.

LEGAZPI CITY, Jan. 28 (PNA) -- The Supreme Court's decision to totally halt the Bt talong (eggpant) field-testing propagation and commercialization of genetically modified organisms (GMO) may affect the country’s food security, a Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) statement said Thursday.

JOVELLAR, Albay, Jan. 28 (PNA) -- Deep through the woods down the outskirts of this poor, sleepy Bicol town are peculiar natural settings that make the place incredibly spectacular.

LEGAZPI CITY, Jan. 28 (PNA) -- Sorsogon has the highest incidence of Soil Transmitted Herminthalisis (STH) infections and six out of 10 elementary pupils suffer from the disease, Department of Health Bicol Regional Director Napoleon Arevalo said Thursday.

LEGAZPI CITY, Jan. 26 (PNA) – Workers in the government’s science and technology (S&T) sector have expressed their strong opposition to some provisions of the proposed new salary standardization law (SSL), which they claim would give them no real salary increase but pay cut and loss of certain benefits.

DARAGA, Albay, Jan. 23 (PNA) -- The more than two-century-old Cagsawa Ruins, recently declared as a historical treasure in the country by the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP), will soon undergo refurbishing as a means to protect, preserve and promote this national historical property.

LEGAZPI CITY, Jan. 7 (PNA) -- Great transformations, from its being elevated to a Highly Urbanized City (HUC) to the coming of more major private investments, are expected of this key Bicol urban metropolis this year.

LEGAZPI CITY, Jan. 7 (PNA) -- The much-awaited operation of the vaunted three pumping stations under the controversial Php2.1-billion flood control project of this regional center city is seen to free this coastal city from perennial flooding that often renders business establishments close.