By Judy Flores Partlow DUMAGUETE CITY, (PNA) -– A huge ocean sunfish, weighing about 50 kilos, and which hardly appears in shallow and coastal waters in the Philippines, was found dead off…
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Iloilo CHO to field sanitary inspectors in food stores
ILOILO CITY, (PNA) — Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog here has ordered sanitary inspectors to inspect all food outlets in the city to determine if they are using products approved by Bureau of…
Power to be fully restored in quake-battered Bohol — NDRRMC
MANILA, (PNA) — The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on Tuesday announced that power is still to be fully restored in the quake-battered areas of Bohol. The NDRRMC made…
Phivolcs broadens fault line probe in Bohol
TAGBILARAN CITY, (PNA) -– Experts of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) swung into action Tuesday to probe an unknown fault line of magnitude 7.2 earthquake that jolted Bohol and…
Probe in the acquisition of city’s handheld radios pushed
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, (PNA) — A city councillor on Monday has asked the Commissions on Audit (COA) to determine the unit price of a handheld radio acquired by the city government…
Vital bridge in Burauen-Albuera road project nears completion
TACLOBAN CITY, (PNA) — The P18 million Balagnon Bridge in the Burauen-Albuera road project is nearing completion, says a report by the 2nd Leyte Engineering District of the Department of Public Works…
Fire hits two houses in Dumaguete; two injured
DUMAGUETE CITY, (PNA) – Fire of still unknown origin destroyed two houses in an interior portion along Dr. Meciano Road in Dumaguete City on Tuesday morning. At least two persons sustained minor…
Most Cebu classes suspended for two weeks more due to aftershocks
CEBU CITY, (PNA) — Education and local government officials on Monday suspended classes in Cebu City and Cebu Province for another two weeks after a series of strong aftershocks Sunday and Monday….
OWWA bares 2013 MOFYA regional winners
ZAMBOANGA CITY, (PNA) -– The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration has announced the regional winners, both for land-based and sea-based categories, of the 2013 Search for the Model OFW Family Award (MOFYA). The…
Baguio gun ban violators now total to 4, one suspect is a minor — BCPO
BAGUIO CITY, (PNA) — Four persons, one of them a minor, have already violated the total gun ban here imposed by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), in view of the on-going campaign…
(Oro)No areas of concern in CDO, says police
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, (PNA) – – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has not declared any of this city’s 80 rural and urban villages as “area of concern” ahead of the October…
Church leaders, farmers hold solidarity march
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, (PNA) -– Some 2,000 farmers, students, civil society and non-government organization group members held a church-peasant solidarity march rally Monday afternoon here to lobby for the complete abolition…
Support to quake victims must go beyond relief goods, physical reconstruction
CABANATUAN CITY, Nueva Ecija, (PNA) — Sexagenarian Jose Cajucom still could not grasp himself in recalling what he witnessed in the rescue of hundreds of students and teachers from the rubbles of…
Tsunami early warning system to be set up soon off Batangas seas
BATANGAS CITY, (PNA) – – A tsunami early warning system, to be donated by the United Nations World Food Programme (UN-WFP), is expected to be established off the coastal waters of the…
‘Negros Occidental has long history of organic agriculture’
By Nanette L. Guadacquiver BACOLOD CITY, (PNA) — Long before the national government campaigned for the practice organic agriculture, the province of Negros Occidental had long been championing this farming practice. This…