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…
SM City Calamba stages “Happy Halloween” costume tilt for shoppers, mallers
By Saul E. Pa-a CALAMBA CITY, Laguna (PNA) –- The SM City Calamba mall here has announced Wednesday its competition for the Halloween competition among shoppers and mallers on Oct. 31 from…
Communist rebels attack multi-million piggery farm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, (PNA) -–Some 100 fully armed communist guerrillas of the New People’s Army (NPA) swooped down on a piggery farm in Libona, Bukidnon Wednesday morning, burned the stockyard and…
Health stations to be set up in Zambo cemeteries
ZAMBOANGA CITY, (PNA) -–The City Health Office (CHO) is establishing medical health stations in major public and private cemeteries here to cater to the health needs of people during All Saints and…
‘Gun for Peace’ nets 35 NPA rebels
By Cris Diaz CAMP EVANGELISTA, Cagayan de Oro City, (PNA) – Thirty-five communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, including a minor, surrendered to the military here to avail themselves of the government’s…