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  • UNEP All Set for ICCS Confab

    Iriga City ----   The University of Northeastern Philippines (UNEP) is all set for the upcoming 4th International ICCS Convention on Media Communications happening next week, November 27.  On top of the preparation is no less than UNEP President Atty. Remelisa Alfelor-Moraleda.

  • Robredo: Government Not Forcing STL Operations

    DUMAGUETE CITY, Nov. 18 - The operation of the Small Town Lottery (STL) will only be allowed if the local government unit concerned will allow it, according to Secretary Jessie Robredo of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).

    Robredo’s clarification comes in the wake of reports that the operation of STL is being forced by the government while keeping the numbers game "jueteng" illegal.

    Robredo, however, admits that there is a problem in Metro Manila, where STL has apparently become the legal cover for jueteng.

  • Gov't Troopers and Rebels Clash Anew

    TIGAON, CAMARINES SUR—PATROLING government troopers clash anew with communist rebels in remote barangay San Ramon, Pamplona, Cam. Sur, the 42nd Infantry Battalion, PA, which has jurisdiction over this province reported on Tues. (Nov. 16).

    42nd Infantry Battalion commanding officer, Lt. Col. Ernesto Cruz revealed that a 9-man squad of his unit led by 2nd Lt. Mariel Bonilla encountered 10 communist rebels in a 5-minute fire-fight when army troopers were fired upon by the rebels at the said vicinity.

  • Army Soldiers Clash With NPA Rebels in Camsur

    TIGAON, Camarines Sur Nov 16,2010– Patrolling Army soldiers clash with NPA rebels in a remote village in Camsur, a military official said here today.

    LtCol Ernesto Cruz, Commanding Officer of the 42nd Infantry Battalion which has jurisdiction over Camarines Sur said that a 9-man squad of his unit led by 2nd Lieutenant Mariel Bonilla clashed with more or less 10 bandits in San Ramon village, Pamplona town at around 2:30pm yesterday.

  • Militants Slam AKB for Las Vegas Trip to Watch Pacquiao Fight

    Legazpi (14 November) -- The militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Bikol (BAYAN-Bikol) hit Ako Bicol (AKB) party list representatives for leaving their distressed constituents in Sorsogon affected by the increased activity of Bulusan Volcano in order to watch Rep. Manny Pacquiao’s fight today.

    AKB Reps. Rodel Batocabe and Alfredo Garbin Jr. were among the congressmen listed by House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte who asked for travel permits to the US covering the date of the Pacquiao match.

  • UNEP Top Brass Attends Worklife Seminar

    With the University of Northeastern Philippines’ (UNEP) insatiable desire to continuously aim for better and quality education, also comes the package of building a well mannered relationship amongst its staff and members of the faculty.

    This was the essence of the just concluded Quality of Worklife Seminar held at the Caritas Christi Prayer and Renewal Center on November 9 and 10 and was conducted by Mr. Rodolfo C. Menguita, Training Director of D.M. Consunji.

  • DENR to Assess Country’s Iron Deposits

     RAWIS, LEGAZPI CITY (8 November) -- Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon J.P. Paje has directed the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) to conduct an assessment of local iron deposits as possible raw material feeds to an integrated iron and steel facility that the government is planning to establish in the country.

  • A Rich Harvest for 10th Ateneo National Writers Workshop

    If poets, as Ann Lauterbach forwards, protect language from serving any master, then this year’s Ateneo National Writers Workshop (ANWW) more that proved this truism, considering the dynamism and sovereignty of its literary genres, as well as its fellows and panelists.

  • Cop and Three Others Face Kidnapping Raps

    NAGA CITY (8 November)—A POLICE personnel of the Camarines Sur Police Office (PPO) and three other suspects are facing charges of Frustrated Kidnapping, Illegal Possession of Firearms and Ammo, and violation of the COMELEC Gun-Ban, before the City Prosecutor’s Office here.

  • Mount Bulusan Erupts for the 5th Time --Phivolcs

    LEGAZPI CITY, Nov. 12  -- Mount Bulusan in Sorsogon province belched on Friday morning a voluminous ash plume 700 meters above its crater rim that drifted and covered villages in the southwest flank of the volcano, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

    Phivolcs said the phreatic explosion occurred at 6:59 a.m., sending light gray ash column that was accompanied by rumbling sounds, a typical characteristic of Bulusan's restive state.

    Ash falls were reported in the villages in the towns of Irosin and Juban.