ZAMBOANGA CITY – Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) regional executive director Ernesto Adobo yesterday assured Sibuco, Zamboanga del Norte Mayor Norbi Edding that his five nominees to join a composite group that would guard the forest against illegal logging.
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BACOLOD CITY – Aside from the natural farming technology that has led to odorless piggeries, Negros Occidental may also lead in the drive to end the obnoxious parade of foul smelling dump trash loaded with trash.
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CANDON, Ilocos Sur — A police officer and four of his men are now on the hot seat, with a female lawyer hounding them for seizing four firearms from Eric C. Comiso and failing to report the same in his return of the search warrant to Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 23 here in 2003.
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KIDAPAWAN CITY (PNA) – The provincial government of North Cotabato is a recipient of R27-million assistance from the Department of Agriculture (DA) aimed at completing the San Isidro-Katipunan-Gayola irrigation system here.
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CAMP ROMEO ABENDAN, Zamboanga City – Three top field commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), long wanted for the 2004 bloody attack on Siocon town, Zamboanga del Norte, were apprehended by police onboard a passenger bus recently in barangay Mercedes, this city.
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY, (PNA) – Sarangani Governor Miguel Rene Dominguez bared over the weekend that President Arroyo gave P10-million for the rehabilitation of a road leading to a remote mountain village in Malapatan town, Sarangani.
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TABUK, Kalinga – One of the Basao tribesmen suspects in the Sept. 2 murder of a Bontoc-Sagada mestizo in Bontoc, Mountain Province has been arrested but despite the capture, Bontoc residents refuse to lift the ban they imposed against the tribe for its failure to make good their earlier promise to surrender the two suspects.
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PUERTO PRINCESA CITY — A unique project backed by a R12-million grant from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was launched here last week to give alternative livelihood to tricycle operators and drivers and thus cut down the city’s air and noise pollution.
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CALUMPIT, Bulacan — For several days, residents in Barangay Gatbuka here were baffled by the strong foul odor coming from the house of their old wealthy widow neighbor.
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BALER, Aurora – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has announced that it has started work on a diversion road that bypassess three mountainous segments along the Canili-Pantabangan road (PCR) and connect central Aurora province to Central Luzon.
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Corn price bounces back
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TACLOBAN CITY — Finally, Japanese Ambassador Ruichiro Yamazaki and Gov. Carlos Jericho L. Petilla signed last week the grant contract for the Abaca Rehabilitation and Expansion project of the province of Leyte.
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PALO, Leyte – Fifteen public elementary and secondary schools in the Visayas have been honored by the Department of Education (DepEd) as "most innovative schools" in this year’s implementation of the agency’s "Brigade Eskwela," it was learned here.
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DUMAGUETE CITY (PNA) — Dumaguete City Vice Mayor William Ablong lashed out at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) for blaming local government units (LGUs) for the encroachment of big fishing vessels on the Tañon Strait.
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SAGBAYAN, Bohol (PNA) — A son-in-law accused of killing his 81-year-old father-in-law was recently sentenced by a local court of up to 40 years in prison and was also ordered to pay R60,000 for damages and burial cost.
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BORACAY, Aklan — Mandala Spa takes home the top prize when it was recognized as the Destination Spa of the Year, and was given the award for Spa Treatment of the Year for Watsu, at the first ever Baccarat Asia Spa Awards (BASA), which was recently held at the InterContinental Hong Kong.
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