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  • Revenue Campaign
    Alexander D. Lopez
    03/08/2013 - 00:57
    Regional
    The Region-11 office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR-11) has announced the start of the comprehensive campaign for tax collection for the year 2013 in its area of jurisdiction.
  • Farmers’ Cooperatives
    Raymund F. Antonio
    03/08/2013 - 00:57
    Regional
    The Bureau of Customs (BOC) yesterday slapped charges against 17 officers of farmers’ cooperatives for their illegal rice importations in the Port of Cagayan De Oro (CDO) last year.
  • Davao Convention
    Alexander D. Lopez
    03/08/2013 - 00:57
    Regional
    Hundreds of participants from local and foreign travel sector converged at the SMX Convention Center here to attend the opening ceremony of the Philippine MICE or Meetings, Incentive Travel, Conventions, Exhibitions/Events Conference (MICECON).
  • ARMM Personnel Hold Prayer Rally
    Ali G. Macabalang
    03/08/2013 - 00:57
    Regional
    Amid escalating tension in the Sabah standoff with Philippine and Malaysian authorities ruling out cordial negotiations with the “invading” followers of the Sulu Sultanate, local peace advocates are turning to Divine intervention as an ultimate source of relief.
  • ‘Biling yari’
    Christian De Leon Espiritu
    03/08/2013 - 00:57
    Fashion
    One fashion reference states this positively: ready-to-wear or prêt-à-porter, pronounced pret-ah-pawr-tey, and most often abbreviated RTW; simply means "off-the-rack" or "off-the-peg" if such phrase is casually used.
  • Lake Buhi Tops Cobra Regatta
    03/08/2013 - 00:57
    Sports
    Lake Buhi finally showed up fancied Army with a stunning come-from-behind win to cap the first leg of the 2013 Cobra Energy Drink Dragon Boat Regatta at the Manila Bay over the weekend.
  • Magical Lebron
    03/08/2013 - 00:57
    Sports
    LeBron James scored 26 points, including a go-ahead layup with 3.2 seconds left, and the Miami Heat scrambled late to beat the Orlando Magic, 97-96, on Wednesday night and extend their franchise-record winning streak to 16 games.
  • ABL: San Mig Battles Indons
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Sports
    Import Brian Williams returns from injury today as the San Miguel Beermen seek their third straight victory against the defending champion Indonesia Warriors in the ASEAN Basketball League at Tennis Indoor Senayan in Jakarta.
  • Ballots For Overseas Absentee Voting
    Chito A. Chavez
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Main News
    A party-list group promoting human rights assailed yesterday the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for allegedly concocting a formula that will break down the overseas absentee voting (OAV).
  • Dutch Increases Lead To 8
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Sports
    Guido Van der Valk came charging home to shoot a 71 and pull away from the pack with a whopping eight-shot lead over two Japanese to virtually put a lock on the PGT Q-School top honors at Splendido Taal Golf Club here yesterday.
  • All Set For Tri United
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Sports
    Over 600 triathletes from across the nation will vie for supremacy in the Unilab Active Health’s Tri United 1 on Sunday at the Subic Bay Freeport. 
  • Habitat’s ‘I Build Campaign’ Cited
    Anna Liza Villas-Alavaren
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Main News
    The Public Relations Society of the Philippines honored close to 140 exceptional PR programs and tools implemented in the previous year during the 48th Anvil Awards last Wednesday night.
  • MRT Misery May Last Longer
    Kris Bayos
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Main News
    Passengers of the Metro Rail Transit may have to endure overcrowded trains longer after foreign companies interested to bid for the P3.7-billion MRT 3 Capacity Expansion Project yesterday asked government to adjust the schedule for delivery of trains.
  • European Union Triples Emergency Aid
    Roy C. Mabasa
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Main News
    The European Union has tripled its emergency aid to victims of Typhoon Pablo (international name Bopha) in Mindanano by contributing an additional €7 million. This brings the total humanitarian funding of EU to the devastated region to €10 million.
  • Good Copy
    Elinando B. Cinco
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Opinion
    In my book, there are only three government agencies whose pronouncements are always what newspaper editors call “a good copy” – the Commission on Audit (COA), the Ombudsman, and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).
  • Election Issues
    Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Opinion
    A dark realm far beneath the Earth’s surface is a surprisingly rich home for tiny worms and “zombie microbes” that may hold clues to the origins of life, scientists said on Monday.
  • Election Issues
    Fred M. Lobo
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Opinion
    The Supreme Court stops the Commission on Elections (Comelec)  from removing  the “Team Patay/Team Buhay” poster of the Catholic Church hitting pro-RH candidates.
  • Command Responsibilty
    Former Press Secretary Hector R.R. Villanueva
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Opinion
    “We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.”
  • How To Humanize Technical Workers (2)
    Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Opinion
    Let us take the case of the Business Process Outsourcing  (BPO) sector.  After listening to Mr. Ramon Dimacali about how K + 12 can be partly channeled to the needs of the BPO sector in the coming five years or so, I am making the following proposal. 
  • A Bridge Across The Pacific
    Floro L. Mercene
    03/08/2013 - 00:56
    Opinion
    “Philippine Aviation must serve as a Pacific bridge between North America and Southeast Asia.”