Palace says: Look at candidates’ platforms, not surveys or ability to win
January 31, 2010 12:24 am· Comments Off
MANILA, Jan. 30 — Malacañang urged voters on Saturday to look at the platforms of political candidates and “not surveys or winnability.”
De Lima to police: Arrest fugitives to stop clan wars in Agusan del Sur
January 31, 2010 12:24 am· Comments Off
BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 30 – The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Friday said the fugitives from justice, who are still roaming around the remote villages in a town of Agusan del Sur province, must be “arrested and disarmed at all cost” so that peace will reign in some highland villages in Prosperidad town.
AusAID provides $ 5-M grant for education projects in ARMM
January 31, 2010 12:24 am· Comments Off
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Jan. 30 — The Australian government has provided a $ 5-million grant for education projects and programs in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Suspect in teacher’s murder slips to Mindanao
January 31, 2010 12:24 am· Comments Off
By Angeline Valencia
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Jan. 30 — The Inabanga police now faces the challenge of a slippery catch on a student who was implicated in the murder of a teacher in Nabuad High School.
Two lab tests on substance mixed with imported rice don't match
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BACOLOD CITY, Jan. 30 -Confusions mount among authorities investigating the suspected shabu shipped via MV Trai Thien 66 from Vietnam after results of the lab test of the samples sent to the Crime Laboratory in Negros Occidental Provincial Police Office (NOPPO) did not match with the National Crime Lab in Manila.
Rescue operations on two captived Chinese nationals on
January 31, 2010 12:24 am· Comments Off
By Teofilo P. Garcia
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Jan. 30 — Basilan Gov. Jum Akbar appealed to the Basileños to rally behind the police and military authorities in the campaign against the kidnappers in the island province of Basilan.
Police tracking site of illegal drug lab in Bacolod
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By George M. Dela Cruz
BACOLOD CITY, Jan. 30 – The Philippine National Police (PNP) here and higher headquarters in Camp Crame are now closely monitoring the possible entry of three members of the International Drug Syndicate in the province and Bacolod City on suspicions that they are maintaining a clandestine drug laboratory.
348 new cops finish basic recruit training
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BACOLOD CITY, Jan. 30 — The Police Regional Office 6 has 348 new police officers who finished on Thursday the Public Safety Basic Recruit Course (PSBRC) at the Garden Royale, Goldenfield Commercial Complex, Bacolod City
GRP, MILF end two-day meet in Malaysia; head back home for more consultations
January 31, 2010 12:24 am· Comments Off
COTABATO CITY, Jan. 30 -– Philippine Government and Moro rebels peace negotiators have started putting the Mindanao peace process back on track following a two-day meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which ended Friday.
Part of P1.4-B uprooted marijuana plants torched in La Union
January 31, 2010 12:24 am· Comments Off
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Jan. 30 –Part of the P1.4-billion worth of fully-grown marijuana plants and seedlings uprooted by lawmen in the tri-boundaries of La Union, Ilocos Sur and Benguet were put to the torch on Friday at the former Wallace Air Station here.