By LLilybeth G. Izon MANILA, (PNA) — My beloved countrymen, good evening. Over the past few months, a few topics have come to be the focus of public discourse. With the cacophony…
Year: 2013
Iran’s saffron exports 7 % down in 6 months: report
TEHRAN, (PNA/Xinhua) — Iran’s saffron exports fell 7 percent in the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21- Sept. 22) compared with the exports in the same period last…
Bangladesh customs seizes 170 gold bars
DHAKA, (PNA/Xinhua) — Just one day after seizing 146 gold bars, customs officials in Bangladesh’s main airport in capital Dhaka on Wednesday morning again seized 24 gold bars weighing about 3 kilograms…
Budget deficit down by 43% in Sept
By Kris M. Crismundo MANILA, (PNA) – The National Government has narrowed budget deficit for September 2013 by 43 percent to P18.6 billion from P32.8 billion deficit in the same month last…
DTI issues monitored prices of flowers in Dangwa
By Kris M. Crismundo MANILA, (PNA) – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has issued prices of flowers after monitoring the flower capital of Manila, Dangwa, in observance of ‘All Saint’s…
18 out of 24 top endorsers are PHL’s top taxpayers — BIRKris M. Crismundo
MANILA, (PNA) — The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) named 18 top endorsers who were included among the top 500 income taxpayers in 2012. This was revealed in BIR’s weekly print advertisement…
DOLE, SSS to launch “AlkanSSSya” savings program with San Pablo’s informal sectors
By Saul E. Pa-a SAN PABLO CITY, Laguna (PNA) -– Social Security System (SSS)-San Pablo City Branch manager Wenceslao Virtucio announced on Wednesday that the agency will launch the “AlkanSSSya Ng Bayan”…
DOE holds 2013 Energy Efficient Technologies confab
By Josine F. Estuye MANILA, (PNA) — The Department of Energy (DOE), in cooperation with the Japan Business Alliance for Smart Energy Worldwide (JASE-W), ASEAN-Centre for Energy (ACE), and the Ministry of…
Poll inspectors, watchers and police escorts escape NPA ambush try
CAMP GEN. SIMEON A. OLA, Legazpi City, (PNA) — Members of the Board of Election Inspectors of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), poll watchers and their police escorts from the Matnog Municipal…
City govt to set up assistance center for ‘Undas’
TACLOBAN CITY, (PNA) –Assistance Centers will be set up by the city government in the six cemeteries here to assist the public during the observance of the All Saint’s Day and All…
Singson repeats warning vs fund-raising ploy
MANILA, (PNA) -– The Department of Public Works and Highways on Wednesday reiterated its warning against the continuous operation of some unscrupulous individuals and groups, using the department to sell or solicit…
Cops sustain full alert status in observance of ‘Undas’
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, (PNA) — Police authorities in South Cotabato province has sustained the area’s full alert status in connection with the observance of the All Saints Day and All Souls Day….
Quake jolts Davao Sur coastal town
DAVAO CITY, (PNA) -– A 5.2 magnitude earthquake jolted Sarangani town in Davao del Sur late Tuesday night, the latest earthquake information of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) showed….
San Jose, Antique police gets 40 firearms
ANTIQUE, (PNA)–The San Jose Municipal Police Station in Antique recently received 40 units of Glock 17 Generation 4 9mm pistols from the Police Regional Office-6 (PRO-6). San Jose Mayor Rony Molina said…
Bacolod’s Diwali Festival seen to become major tourist attraction
BACOLOD CITY, (PNA) — Mayor Monico Puentevella here is looking forward to the staging of the city’s 1st Diwali Festival spearheaded by the local Indian community, and is optimistic that the event…