PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — FRESH troops from other Mindanao regions were rushed to North Cotabato as police and military troops continue clearing operations in some barangays in the province to restore normalcy…
Month: August 2008
Raps vs MILF leader may affect talks
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) yesterday cautioned the Armed Forces and the Philippine National Police against pressing charges against one of its commanders for the skirmishes in…
Ampatuan wins in ARMM election
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Commission on Elections yesterday proclaimed Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan as the winning governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. The Comelec said Ansaruddin-Abdul Malik Alonto Adiong won…
Tyco Fire & Security Launches FLAMEVision FV300 Flame Detector to Detect Fl
BANGALORE, India, Aug. 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — Tyco Fire & Security launched FLAMEVision FV300, the first flame detector in India that uses an infrared array with 256 infrared sensors and integrated CCTV, to…
Educational systems?
It is easily understandable why, most parents, have higher preference for private schools over those of our public schools. This explains the apparent ‘mushrooming’ of every kind of pre-school, elementary, and high…
GMA to cheer, support Team Philippines
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — With President Macapagal-Arroyo watching in the company of some 80 fellow heads of state, the small Philippine team will march along with 204 other nations in the parade…
RP tourism receipts hit $1.87b in 1st half
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — The Philippine economy generated $1.87 billion in tourism receipts from more than 1.6 million international visitor arrivals in the first half of 2008, the Tourism Department reported yesterday….
Health workers’ continue exodus
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — FIRST it was the laborers; then the nurses and caregivers. Now Filipino doctors are making a beeline for Canada, Finland and Bahrain – a few of the countries…
10 outstanding cops honored
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — CONGRATULATIONS to the Country’s 10 Outstanding Policemen in Service or C.O.P.S. who got P250,000 in cash prize, a trophy and a personal audience with President Macapagal-Arroyo. “These officers…
JPEPA a done deal — Miriam
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — It’s still several days before the judgment day on the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement, but a buoyant Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, sponsor of the measure, sounded as if she…
Frat, family ties in Meralco case under scrutiny
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE fraternity and family ties of the feuding Court of Appeals justices have also been dredged up in the high-stakes battle for control of Manila Electric Co. GSIS…
SC forms panel to probe CA bribery
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Supreme Court yesterday created a three-member panel composed of retired justices to investigate a bribery scandal at the Court of Appeals involving a corporate dispute over control…
MILF won’t secede
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has vowed it will not secede once its future homeland has been created in Mindanao, allaying fears that it plans to declare an…
Gov’t orders MILF to leave occupied towns
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE government yesterday ordered the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to leave villages it forcibly occupied in North Cotabato. Officials gave the group until 10 a.m. today to move…
MILF attacks Army
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — MUSLIM separatists traded mortar fire with troops in Mindanao just hours after the Supreme Court stopped a land deal between them and the government, the military said yesterday….