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  • Bikolanos Elated Over Trillanes Amnesty

    LEGAZPI CITY, Oct. 12 -- Many Bikolanos welcomed the amnesty that President Benigno S. Aquino III granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes and the other soldiers involved in the Oakwood Mutiny in 2003, the Marine Standoff last Feb. 2006 and the Manila Peninsula Siege in Nov. 2007.

  • Manalang Out As New DPWH Director Assumes Bikol Post

    LEGAZPI CITY (14 Oct) -A NEW PUBLIC WORKS director is due to assume his new post at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) regional office in this city on Friday (October 15).

    Current Public Works Director for Bikol, architect Danilo C. Manalang will be replaced by Engineer Danilo E. Dequito on the strength of Special Order no. 89 issued by DPWH Sec. Rogelio C. Singson dated Sept. 13, 2010, designating Dequito as Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Regional Director for DPWH Bicol.

  • Business Partner Suspected Mastermind in Contractor Kidnapping

    Naga City (14 Oct) - An alleged business partner of victims Eliseo and Angelina Saturno is now being tagged as the mastermind of the kidnapping of the Naga Coliseum contractor and his wife.

    In a report by the Naga City Police Office, the two Saturnos were stated to have been abducted at gunpoint last October 10 by a group of six armed men at the Maharlika Highway in Sipocot, Camarines Sur.

  • Albay on Alert for Typhoon Juan

    LEGAZPI CITY, Oct. 15- The Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council of Albay has advised all disaster managers down to the villages to be very vigilant against lahar flash floods, mudflows, storm surges and landslides as rains brought by tropical storm Juan started to pour Friday noon.

    Albay Governor Joey Salceda said "since the disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies and the respective rescue and response teams are in place, all we have to do is to pray the Oratio Imperata, a very powerful prayer, so that 'Juan' would spare the province as well as the country."

  • Armed Clashes Erupt in Sorsogon’s Election Hotspots

    CAMP ELIAS ANGELES, Oct. 15,2010, Pili, Camsur - Fresh armed clashes erupt between government forces and the NPA rebels in Sorsogon's election hotspots, a military official said today.

    LtCol Santiago Enginco, Commander of the 49th Infantry Battalion based in Sorsogon said that fresh fighting occurred in Salvacion village, Magallanes town at 8:40am yesterday, October 14 (Thursday).

  • Vatican Congress to Examine Church and the Media

    ROME, Oct. 4, 2010 (CNA/EWTN News).- People have come from all over the world to Rome this week to examine the Church's place in the technological age. Opening the deliberations, the head of the Vatican council for communications outlined some of the themes of the congress, which include a look at the identity and mission of Catholic media.

  • Bishop Expects 'credible' IIRC Report

    MANILA, Oct. 7, 2010-Caloocan Bishop Deogracias Iñiguez hopes for a credible report on the bungled Aug.23 hostage taking incident, as the result of the investigation awaits approval.

    Iñiguez, who chairs the CBCP's Public Affairs Committee, said the report made by the Incident Investigation Review Committee (IIRC) should be released in full and subjected to public scrutiny.

    "The most important thing is that the report should be credible," Iñiguez said.

  • PNoy's First 100 Days Full of 'missed opportunities' for Human Rights

    CAGAYAN DE ORO City, Oct. 7, 2010-President Simeon Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III's first 100 days in Malacañang were characterized by "missed opportunities" especially in promoting human rights, Amnesty International Philippines (AIPh) said.

    "During his first 100 days in office, President Aquino has highlighted serious human-rights issues in the Philippines, but has yet to take concrete action against them," AIPh director Aurora Parong said in an emailed statement.

  • Economist Debunks Claim of Population Explosion in RP

    MANILA, Oct. 6, 2010-Is the Philippine population indeed a ticking time bomb as proponents of RH bill say so? One of the country's economists and academicians thinks otherwise.

    Dr. Bernardo Villegas, PhD, calling himself a long-term student of demography, claimed that the country's population data is a "statistical abracadabra."

  • P1-M, Other Prizes in 'Premyo sa Resibo'

    Legazpi City (5 October) -- P1 Million, anyone?

    Then, ask for the receipt of your commodities purchased, services paid, and join the Instant 'Premyo sa Resibo' (PSR) promo of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and be the next instant millionaire.