Japan launches J-Pop Anime singing tilt anewto mark RP-Japan Friendship Day
March 4, 2010 11:00 pm· 1 Comment
By Gloria Jane Baylon
MANILA, March 4 –The annual Philippines-Japan Friendship Month in July will be celebrated with the Japanese embassy in Manila holding for the second time the successful and much-in-demand J-Pop Anime Singing Competition across the Philippines.
Plans to swap Guihulngan police cvhief with Canlaon bared
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DUMAGUETE CITY, March 4 – The Negros Oriental provincial police Office plans to swap the police chief of Guihulngan City with Canlaon City in the north to avoid criticism that they are engaged in partisan politics.
Ayala to build IT park in Iloilo
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ILOILO CITY, March 4 – The Ayala Group of Companies is slated to establish its own Information Technology (IT) Park here, a move that will make this city more attractive to IT investors.
‘Operation Bigay Lunas’ serves 2,536 indigent patients in Iloilo City
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ILOILO CITY, March 4 – Some 2,536 indigent patients from this city have availed of free consultations and medicines through the ‘Operation Bigay Lunas’ initiated by the Mercury Drug Store in cooperation with the city government here recently.
Foreign firm proposes to manage Calajunan dumpsite
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ILOILO CITY, March 4 – A multi-national company based at the Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga has proposed a joint venture offer to manage the city’s Calajunan dumpsite and its daily collected solid wastes towards realizing a “zero waste community.”
Soldiers raid Ilocos Sur NPA lair, seize rifle, subversive documents
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NARVACAN, Ilocos Sur, March 4 –Joint elements of the Army’s 50th Infantry Battalion and the 53rd Intelligence Company recovered a high–powered firearm and several subversive documents last Wednesday after raiding a suspected lair of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Barangay Lucbuban, Salcedotown.
Mild quake rocks Batanes anew
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LAOAG CITY, March 4 –Another earthquake rocked the northern part of the country Thursday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
Albay PDCC shifts strategy as Philvoc'slowers Mount Mayon's alert level
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By Mar S. Arguelles
LEGAZPI CITY, March 4 –The Albay Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC) has shifted its disaster strategy from response to risk reduction following the lowering of the alert level in Mayon Volcano from two to one.
Court acquits Filipino-Japanese tourist from illegal drug raps
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KALIBO, Aklan, March 4 – The Kalibo Regional Trial Court (RTC) has acquitted a Filipino-Japanese suspected of carrying P4 million worth of illegal drugs to Boracay Island in 2003.
Suspected killer of Aklan journalist wants to be freed home in time for campaign period
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KALIBO, Aklan, March 4 – The family of former Lezo mayor Fred Arcenio, a suspect in the killing of a Bombo Radyo station manager in 2004, expects the court to free him from detention soon.