There is no use increasing the number of beneficiaries to the next million mark come 2011. If there will be loopholes in how this social welfare program is implemented, it may be…
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Black travel ban
The black travel ban laid down by China is inherently retaliatory on the part of an offended government and its citizenry. Philippines and its officialdom failed to win the hearts and minds…
PhilRice sets plan for the upland
PNS — Supporting the Department of Agriculture’s rice development program for the upland, the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) sets down plans that will help increase rice yields in the said areas….
Canadians explore greeting fluency concept in Tagalog, two languages
By Alex P. Vidal/ PNS VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Learning seven simple phrases is not much more difficult than learning to use chopsticks. This was the gist of former Vancouver mayor Sam…
P-Noy’s recycled cabinet
The President, on the strength of Executive Order 15, grants P500 combat-duty pay to AFP military personnel actually involved in operations against the various armed enemies of the State precisely because their…
A Shinee White Christmas by Daniel Escurel Occeño is a Christmas Greeting.
A Shinee White Christmas by Daniel Escurel Occeño Once upon a time in the city of Automoville on the day before Christmas, the city of Automoville was experiencing a very mild winter…
For want of a ‘sperm’, the case was ‘lost’
It escapes comprehension how a material of high legal value (sperm specimen) could be nowhere to be found. Instead, the NBI and the RTC are pointing accusing fingers on one another as…
NBI 6 confirms capture of American Fugitive David Wayne Altman Greth
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Western Visayas Regional Office 6 (WEVRO 6) branch confirms the capture of American Fugitive David Wayne Altman Greth. The 39 year-old native of Portsmouth , Virginia…
Captured American fugitive vows return to RP
By Florence F. Hibionada Senior Reporter, Philippine News Service Manila , Philippines – Captured American fugitive David Wayne Altman Greth has now left Philippine soil and is now back to the United…
Joint NBI 6-Immigration ops net American fugitive wanted for sex crimes
BY FLORENCE F. HIBIONADA Senior Reporter, Philippine News Service (PNS) ILOILO CITY, PHILIPPINES – Joint operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Western Visayas Regional Office (WEVRO) 6 and the Bureau…
PNoy want privacy on love life
PNS — THE country’s bachelor President has appealed for privacy, saying journalists’ prying eyes are ruining his love life. President Benigno Aquino III has been linked to several women after he broke…
Airlines to stop printing Customs form
PNS — AN ongoing row between the airlines and Customs staff at the airport took a turn for the worse over the weekend after international airline operators said they will stop providing…
BI workers can’t have coffee break
PNS — ALL Immigration staff in the agency’s main office in Intramuros, Manila, are not allowed to hang out in nearby coffee shops and restaurants during office hours starting today, Monday, following…
Gringo in amnesty list
PNS — President Aquino and his Palace boys did it again — committing yet another big blunder and cementing further the perception that Aquino’s government is being run no differently from a…
Robredo coddling Ping?
PNS — They condemned it during then President Gloria Arroyo’s time in Malacañang, but now that they occupy the same Palace, they now sing the same song she sang, whenever allegations were…