DUMAGUETE CITY, June 22 (PNA) -– Law enforcement authorities seized more than half a million pesos worth of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride or “shabu” during a raid in Calindagan, Dumaguete City, Monday that…
Police alerted on possible arrival of armed groups from Mindanao
DUMAGUETE CITY, June 22 (PNA) -– Police authorities in Negros Oriental are keeping a close eye on the possible arrival of suspected armed men from nearby Mindanao following intelligence reports newly hired…
PNP-Bicol awards deserving police officers
CAMP GEN. SIMEON A. OLA, Legazpi City, June 22 (PNA) -– As a showcase of the Kasurog Cops support to the PNP P.A.T.R.O.L Plan 2030 and Philippine National Police Strategic Focus CODE-P…
Shangri-La thangka exhibition sets world record
SHANGRI-LA, Yunnan, June 21 (PNA/Xinhua) — A Tibetan Buddhist shrine in Shangri-La of southwest China’s Yunnan Province set a Guinness World Record on Sunday for the biggest exhibition of thangka paintings. Guinness…
IS to bomb Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra: monitor
DAMASCUS, June 21 (PNA/Xinhua) — The Islamic State (IS) militants have rigged the millennia-old city of Palmyra in central Syria with explosives, a monitor group reported on Sunday. The IS militants planted…
Again? US destroyer to enter Black Sea Sunday to support Atlantic resolve
MOSCOW, June 21 (PNA/Sputnik) — The Arleigh-Burke class destroyer will enter the sea in support of the so-called Operation Atlantic Resolve designed to reassure US allies of Washington’s support amid tensions with…
NPA members gun down suspected military asset in Sorsogon
CAMP GEN. SIMEON A. OLA, Legazpi City, June 21 (PNA) — New People’s Army (NPA) members shot dead a 29-year-old man who was buying bread in a convenient store Saturday afternoon in…
Leyte power coop seeks funds for facilities’ rehab
By Irish O. Alonzo TOLOSA, Leyte, June 21 (PNA) – The Don Orestes Romualdez Electric Cooperative, Inc. (DORELCO) is still awaiting for the national government’s release of funds for the rehabilitation of…
Quarry site earth buries heavy equipment operator alive
CAMP GEN. SIMEON A. OLA, Legazpi City, June 21 (PNA) — Fellow workers failed in their efforts to save a 56-year-old bulldozer operator who got buried under the earth of a quarry…
DSWD 7 lists 33,995 poor families in Central Visayas
CEBU CITY, June 21 (PNA) — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 7 has recorded 33,995 low-income families in Central Visayas. DSWD 7 Director Mercedita Jabagat said the figure is…
Cebu City Council urges firms to give workers day off to complete biometrics before Comelec
CEBU CITY, June 21 (PNA) — The Cebu City Council has passed a resolution asking the city’s business establishments to grant one day off to their employees to allow them to update…
PAGASA expects onset of rainy season in next few days
By Christopher Lloyd T. Caliwan MANILA, June 21 (PNA) — With the frequent occurrence of rains in most parts of the country, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said…
Bills seeking to declare 2 cities, 5 provinces, 1 district as mining-free zones await Senate approval
MANILA, June 21 (PNA) — The House of Representatives, since the start of the 16th Congress, has approved eight bills declaring two cities in Mindanao, five five provinces as well as one…
TESDA intensifies dual training program in Visayas, Mindanao
MANILA, June 21 (PNA) — The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is holding a Dual Training Partnership Forum in the Visayas and Mindanao regions to boost the partnership between schools…
AFP lauds promotion of Visaya to 3-star rank
MANILA, June 21 (PNA) — Newly-promoted Southern Luzon Command (Solcom) head Lt. Gen. Ricardo Visaya, who got his third star last week, is very deserving of his promotion. This was stressed by…