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January 9, 2016

LEGAZPI CITY, Jan. 6 (PNA) -- Only 11 percent of the nearly 120,000 examinees for the latest Professional and Sub-Professional Career Service Examination-Paper and Pencil Tests (CSE-PPT) given last October passed —a very poor passing rate blamed by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) on the low preparedness level for the examination of those who failed.

January 9, 2016

LEGAZPI CITY, Jan. 5 (PNA) -- Classes in all levels in schools damaged by typhoon 'Nona' in the province of Sorsogon resumed Monday, the Department of Education (DepEd) Sorsogon Schools Division Office (SDO) said.

December 29, 2015

LEGAZPI CITY, Dec. 26 (PNA) -- The Department of Health (DOH)'s campaign for a zero-casualty goal in terms of firecracker injuries did not work out in the Bicol Region after it registered 24 cases during the period Dec. 21-Dec. 26.

December 16, 2015

LEGAZPI CITY, Dec. 15 (PNA --Typhoon "Nona" battered Bicol, specifically Sorsogon, after it made a landfall Monday night with 140 kph sustained winds and rains.

December 16, 2015

LEGAZPI CITY, Dec. 15 (PNA) -- A man died when he was electrocuted while removing a billboard of a salon in preparation for the onslaught of Typhoon "Nona" on Monday morning at Ziga Avenue, Tabaco City.

December 16, 2015

NAGA CITY, Dec. 15 (PNA) -- The gross income generated from the operation of the Central Bus Terminal (CBT) in Naga City has ballooned to 150 percent, or to Php40 million from the highest income from lease of Php16 million in one year a private operator gave the local government unit here.

November 14, 2015

NAGA CITY, Nov. 12 (PNA) -- Rona Trio, 43, of Barangay Cararayan here, narrated how the 4Ps had freed them from hunger which they experienced before their enlistment to the government’s Pantawid Pampamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).

November 14, 2015

LEGAZPI CITY, Nov. 12 (PNA) – Describing Chinese people as “friendly brothers and sisters”, Catanduanes Governor Araceli Wong has expressed gratitude for the recent visit of People’s Republic of China Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jian Hua and providing Php1.5 million in donations for some socio-economic projects in the province.

November 13, 2015

CAMP GEN. SIMEON A. OLA, Legazpi City, Nov. 11 (PNA) -- Combined operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Tabaco City Police Station and 501st Philippine National Police Maritime Group confiscated at least Php5-million worth of shabu in a buy-bust operation on Tuesday afternoon at the Tabaco Port, Barangay Cormidal, Tabaco City.

November 13, 2015

PILI, Camarines Sur, Nov. 11 (PNA) – After wowing evaluators of the implementation in Bicol of the foreign-supported Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), its implementers are seeking for additional financing as they commit to sustain if not surpass the project’s accomplishments for the next wave of evaluations.

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