Philippines News Agency back issues from August 2008:
RDCC XII mulls flood early warning system.
Aug 01, 2008 ... GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Aug 1 (PNA) - The Region XII Disaster Coordinating Council (RDCC XII) bared plans to set up a flood early warning system in the wake of flooding that hit a number of villages in the region the past weeks. Office of Civil Defense Region XII director Lita B ....
RP,Pakistan signed MOA to boost economic cooperations.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, Aug. 1 (PNA) - The Philippines and Pakistan signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the establishment of a Joint Economic Commission (JEC) that will boost the economic ties of the two countries. Philippine Ambassador to Pakistan Jamie J. Yambao and Mr. Junaid Iqbal, ...
South Cotabato expands area for corn.
Aug 01, 2008 ... GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- To help ensure food sufficiency in South Cotabato, the provincial government has secured another 7,000 hectares of farm land to be converted into corn fields. South Cotabato governor Daisy Avance-Fuentes said the province would finance corn ...
2 die, P3.5-M properties gutted down in Zambo fire.
Aug 01, 2008 ... ZAMBOANGA CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) - Two people were believed to have been burned to death while more than P3 million worth of properties were razed to the ground on two separate fire incidents in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, the police reported Friday. A belated police report ...
Hedcor awards 12 top Davao performing high school students.
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAVAO CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) The Hydro Electric Development Corporation or Hedcor Sibulan, Inc. (HSI), the developers of the 42.5-megawatt Sibulan Hydropower Project in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur, recently turned over financial assistance grants to 12 top performing high school students of ...
Sarangani is RPs best disaster coordinating council.
Aug 01, 2008 ... GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Aug 1 (PNA) The National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) has picked Sarangani Province as Gawad KALASAG recipient for being the best Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC). Sarangani governor Miguel Rene Dominguez will receive the award during ...
BPI projects 12-15% loan growth in 08.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, Aug. 1 (PNA) - A 12 to 15 percent jump is what the Bank of the Philippine Island (BPI) foresees for its loan portfolio this year amidst the drop in its first half earnings due to volatilities in the economy. BPI president Aurelio Montinola, in a briefing, said growth ...
Communist rebels torched Globe cell site in Camarines Sur.
Aug 01, 2008 ... LEGAZPI CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- Suspected communist rebels torched on Thursday a Globe Telecom cell sites in Del Gallego town in Camarines Sur. The incident took place around 10 p.m in Sitio Nagkalit, barangay Sinuknipan, Del Gallego town. Military report said ...
Subic lst half investments top US$ 212-M; 3,500 new jobs assured.
Aug 01, 2008 ... SUBIC BAY FREEPORT, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- New investment projects approved by the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) in the first half of this year reached a total value of US$ 212 million, bringing cumulative investments in this free port to US$ 5.7 billion. The 94 new projects ...
NFA resumes filling stocks of a 10,000 cavan capacity.
Aug 01, 2008 ... BONTOC, Mountain Province, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- The National Food Authority (NFA) today resumed the re-stocking of supply of its warehouse here which has a capacity of 10,000 cavans to assure the steady supply of the government-subsidized rice for the consumers in the area. NFA ...
Aurora in Zambo Sur gets P103.5M Aggie projects.
Aug 01, 2008 ... ZAMBOANGA CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) has launched this week a P103,591,953.32 million infrastructure agricultural related project in collaboration with the municipality of Aurora in Zamboanga del Sur with the provinces of Lanao del Norte and Misamis ...
BIR director in Iloilo vows to further improve frontline services.
Aug 01, 2008 ... ILOILO CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) - Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Regional Office No. 11-A director Alert Alocilja has vowed to further improve their frontline services as the bureau celebrates Friday its 104th founding anniversary. The BIR regional director said that although their ...
Marikina City bans release of balloons in the air.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- Marikina City Councilor of 2nd District Roberto Ponce recently filed an ordinance prohibiting the release of balloons into the atmosphere, underscoring the serious threat to animal and marine life which the act poses. Ponce warned that balloons return to ...
PAGC to join PDEA in monitoring drug related cases in court.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, August 1 (PNA) - The Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC) will be joining the ongoing road show of the Presidential Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in promoting the strengthening of prosecution of drug-related cases in the country. PAGC chairman Connie de Guzman said ...
Solon seeks for the reorganization of Philippine Statistical System.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, Aug. 1 (PNA) - A House leader has proposed for the reorganization of the Philippine Statistical System (PSS) as a way to cope up with the rapid changes in the field of information and technology. House Bill 4136 which was principally authored by Senior Deputy Majority ...
RFM assures saleability and quality of squash noodles.
Aug 01, 2008 ... LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- A private firm working with government agencies in the production and sale of vegetable noodles which will soon be produced locally in commercial scale said noodles are saleable and of excellent quality as low-priced nutritious food. RFM ...
150 Kalinga day-care workers trained on disaster-preparedness.
Aug 01, 2008 ... TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has completed the training and skills development of more than 150 day-care workers in accordance with its intent to fully prepare the group in extending full security and care of their wards. ...
Rapu-rapu mining to resume this month.
Aug 01, 2008 ... SORSOGON CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- Under new management, Lafayette Philippines Inc. (LPI) will resume operations in its controversial polymetallic mining site in the island of Rapu-rapu, Albay this month with an assurance that the repeat of toxic tailings spill is avoided so that its ...
12 barangays rank for future funding under KALAHI-CIDSS.
Aug 01, 2008 ... LEGAZPI CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) - Twelve barangays represented by different volunteer organizations in the province of Camarines Sur have been ranked by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) regional office in Bicol for future funding under the Kapit Bisig Laban sa ...
Armed men torch 84 houses in N Cot -- report.
Aug 01, 2008 ... KIDAPAWAN CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) - Houses that were allegedly torched by Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels in three villages in Aleosan town in North Cotabato had actually numbered to 84, not 30 as earlier reported, data from the Cotabato Provincial Social Welfare and Development ...
Filipino boxer Tanamor ends training in Baguio; heads for Beijing Olympics (Sports).
Aug 01, 2008 ... BAGUIO CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA)-Filipino olympic campaigner Harry Tanamor today ended his month-long training and other preparations being one of the Philippines athletes who will see action in the forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, China. He was seen briefly by newsmen and ...
Customs apprehended assorted smuggled products worth P65 million.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, August 1 (PNA) -- The Bureau of Customs (BOC) apprehended 56 containers of assorted smuggled agricultural products from China and Hong Kong worth P65.14 million. Of the seized shipments, twenty five containers were misdeclared as food ingredients and flour but were found ...
Bill granting student fare discounts on weekends, holidays sought.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, Aug. 1 (PNA) - A bill seeking to grant fare discounts to students even on weekends, vacations and holidays was filed at the House of Representatives in light of the rising costs of oil and basic commodities. Rep. Ignacio T. Arroyo (5th District, Negros Occidental), in ...
Police chief gunned down by fellow cop.
Aug 01, 2008 ... LEGAZPI CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- The police chief of Labo town was gunned down on Thursday evening by a fellow policeman outside a restaurant in Daet, Camarines Norte, reports reaching Camp Simeon Ola said Friday. Killed was Police Chief Inspector Wilson Perez, 33, chief of police ...
3 NPA died and another soldier wounded in a separate skirmishes.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- Three Army soldiers and a communist New Peoples Army guerrilla died and another soldier was wounded in separate skirmishes between the two sides in Quezon and in Kalinga on Wednesday and Thursday,military officials reported Friday. The three soldiers died ...
Question on OIC of Dagupan police finally settled.
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAGUPAN CITY, Aug 1 (PNA) - All is well that ends well in the Dagupan Police after one of the officers designated as officer-in-charge gave way to the other officer. Superintendent Mariano Luis Verzosa became the OIC chief of police when Superintendent Geraldo Roxas, who was the ...
POEA holds anti-illegal recruitment in Puerto Princesa.
Aug 01, 2008 ... PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), in coordination the city governments Public Employment Services Office (PESO) held one-day Anti-Illegal Recruitment and Trafficking on Persons Campaign seminar at the Skylight Hotel. ...
Palawan joins Southern Tagalog Cooperative in Calapan.
Aug 01, 2008 ... PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- Palawan Gov. Joel T. Reyes will lead the provincial governments delegation in the three-day 7th Southern Tagalog Cooperative Congress to be held in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro slated on Aug. 13-15, 2008. Reyes met members of Provincial ...
Samar island villages energized.
Aug 01, 2008 ... CATBALOGAN CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) - Several households, mostly agrarian reform beneficiaries, in Majaba and Basiao islands in this city were energized under the solar home system package of the Spanish government-funded Solar Power Technology Support (SPOTS) project of the Department of ...
Mitra seeks more agriculture funds to achieve rice self-sufficiency by 2010.
Aug 01, 2008 ... PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- Administration lawmaker Palawan Rep. Abraham Khalil Mitra vowed to sustain his coordination with the Department of Agriculture (DA) and Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to seek more agriculture funds to help Filipino farmers increase its ...
Authorities recover explosive near power barge.
Aug 01, 2008 ... KIDAPAWAN CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) - Police operatives recovered on Monday an anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade (RPG), some 100 meters away from a power barge of the National Power Corporation (Napocor) in Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat, belated reports from the 1208th Provincial Police Mobile ...
Brunei to host 6th EAGA Friendship Games in November (Sports).
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAVAO CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- Young athletes from the four member-countries of Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-the Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) will troop to Brunei in November 28-30, 2008 for the 6th BIMP-EAGA Friendship Games. In a preparatory meeting held ...
Sarangani-bred fry will not affect Dagupan bangus's taste.
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAGUPAN CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) - The city of Dagupan will still produce high-quality bangus (milkfish) even if it is presently using fry produced in Sarangani province or from other places. This was disclosed by Mayor Alipio Fernandez, himself a bangus fishpond operator, following ...
Hedcor assists Davao Sur folk to secure ancestral domain title.
Aug 01, 2008 ... STA. CRUZ, Davao del Sur, Aug. 1 (PNA) - The Hydro Electric Development Corporation (Hedcor) helped the Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe in Sta. Cruz, by turning over a check worth P200,000 to the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) as assistance for the formulation of the Ancestral ...
PSKAI Davao elects new director, other officials (Sports).
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAVAO CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- Members of the Philippine Karatedo Federation (PKF) in Davao Region elected Philippine Shotokan Karatedo Association International (PSKAI) 8th Dan Red and White Belt President and Headmaster Ricardo Mendoza Tacay of Davao City as the new PKF regional director ...
Comval vice guv confirms bid for 2010 polls.
Aug 01, 2008 ... COMPOSTELA VALLEY, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- Compostela Valley Vice Governor Ramil Gentugay has confirmed that he is running for congressman in the first district of the province by 2010 during a recent fiesta celebration of Monkayo town. The vice governor, for several times shied away ...
99 percent of Davao Norte business dependent on microenterprises -- DTI.
Aug 01, 2008 ... TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) provincial office today released an official report citing a 99 percent increase of the business name registrations from 2006 to 2007 are dependent of microenterprises, particularly in the city. ...
Tagum City dads wary over rice-banana conversion.
Aug 01, 2008 ... TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- The Tagum City Council is currently investigating an unauthorized conversion of ricelands at the citys outskirts to cavendish banana production involving the giant multinational banana firm Dole-Philippines. The City Council has ...
Banner stories of Manila's leading newspapers, Friday, Aug. 1, 2008.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- Today's banner stories for Friday: BULLETIN - House committee OKs ARMM bill INQUIRER - 'Sabio wanted P50-M bribe' MALAYA - Sabio would accept P50M for a ruling? STANDARD - From accuser, ...
DOLE laments unannounced suspension of work by Zambo fishing firms and canneries.
Aug 01, 2008 ... ZAMBOANGA CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) - The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has lamented the failure of fishing companies and canneries in Zamboanga to inform the office about their suspension of operations and have jeopardized the employment of some 50,000 workers in this city since ...
DA eyes Mindanao as RPs orchard, agri-business hub.
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAVAO CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) The Department of Agriculture (DA) is planning to make Mindanao as the countrys future orchard and agri-business capital of the country. In his written message delivered by Assistant Secretary Salvador Salacup during the opening of the two-day First ...
Gordon to push hearing in ARMM elections postponement on Monday.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, Aug. 1 (PNA) - Senator Richard Gordon announced Friday that despite his belief that the postponement of the scheduled August 11 elections in Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is impossible, the hearing on Monday will push through. Sen. Gordon, who chairs the ...
Dad elates CAB air agreements, urges to include Davao City.
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAVAO CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) - City Councilor Peter Lavia has urged the citys tourism industry stakeholders to make plans and take advantage of the Civil Aviation Board (CAB) to include Davao City in the air agreements as one of three destinations. Lavia, who chairs the City ...
Davao water firm, Hedcor have 10 days to settle project.
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAVAO CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- The City Councils committee on environment here gave the Davao City Water District (DCWD) and Hydro Electric Development Corporation (Hedcor) 10 days to come up with an agreement on who gets the right to use portions of the Tamugan and Panigan Rivers in this ...
Philippine embassy in Brunei issued 1st machine readable passport.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, Aug. 1 (PNA) Philippine Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam Virginia H. Benavidez reported to the Department of Foreign Affiars (DFA) that the embassy has issued its first machine readable passport (MRP) to Mr. Albert Shui last July 12. The Philippine embassy began accepting ...
EU migrant workers dominate Norways labor industry.
Aug 01, 2008 ... OSLO, Norway, August 1 (PNA) -- Around 70 percent of Norwegian farmers rely greatly on cheap labor from Eastern Europe, figures from the analysis firm Perduco showed, on line news reported here Thursday. Meanwhile, farming and fishing are not the only industries where EU-workers ...
Missing Pangasinan fisherman rescued off La Union.
Aug 01, 2008 ... CAMP DIEGO SILANG, La Union, Aug. 1 (PNA) -- A fisherman from Bolinao, Pangasinan who was declared missing since he went on a fishing expedition on July 25 was rescued off Luna town in La Union. Rescued at 7:45 a.m. on Thursday was Celso Molina, 36, of barangay Balingasay, ...
BF warns population explosion on 2025.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, July 31 (PNA) -- Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando on Wednesday warned of a population explosion in the country unless the government and the religious sector reconcile its differences to forge a wholistic campaign to address the runaway population ...
LTO to accept insurance by private firms.
Aug 01, 2008 ... ZAMBOANGA CITY, July 31 (PNA)-- The Land Transportation Office (LTO) in the Zamboanga Peninsula will continue to accept insurance for vehicles that will be provided by private insurance forms, following opposition by private insurance companies to the government's plan to limit the ...
Marikina hosts teachers workshop on recyclable lab tools.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, July 31 (PNA) -- A total of 160 public elementary and secondary Science teachers from the National Capital Region (NCR) took part in a regional training workshop Thursday at the Marikina Hotel in Marikina City. Spearheaded by the Department of Education (DepEd) and ...
CA en banc refers case of warring justices in controversial Meralco ruling to SC.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, July 31 (PNA) The Court of Appeals (CA), in an en banc resolution Thursday, decided to forward to the Supreme Court (SC) the case of the justices involved in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) impasse to determine whether the concerned ...
DOLE releases P1.2M to Aklan for early employment recovery program.
Aug 01, 2008 ... ILOILO CITY, July 31 (PNA) The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has released P1.207 million to the 11 municipalities of Aklan for the implementation of the emergency employment assistance, the first phase of its Early Employment Recovery Program for typhoon-displaced workers. ...
House panel approves the postponement of the ARMM elections.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, July 31 (PNA) The House Committee on Electoral Reforms and Suffrage on Thursday approved a legislative measure seeking for the postponement in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). The Committee, chaired by Makati Rep. Teodoro Locsin acted favorably for the ...
Ex-Apalit mayor ambushed in Bulacan.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MALOLOS CITY, July 31 (PNA) -- Motorcycle riding gunmen ambushed and killed former Apalit, Pampanga Mayor Tirso Lacanilao at a gasoline station in Barangay Poblacion, Calumpit town Thursday. A report sent by Supt. Manuel Lukban Jr., Group Director of the 305th Provincial Mobile ...
Marco Polo Davao named 2007 hotel of the year anew.
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAVAO CITY, July 31 (PNA) -- The Marco Polo Davao has been rated as 2007 Hotel of the Year and the Guest Satisfaction Award for three consecutive years. Hotel General Manager Stanley Lau said Marco Polo Davao rose above other contending Marco Polo hotels, namely Marco Polo ...
Measures to attract call center firms to locate in W. Visayas undertaken.
Aug 01, 2008 ... ILOILO CITY, July 31 (PNA) The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is undertaking measures, including addressing the looming power supply problem, to attract more call center companies to locate in Western Visayas. DTI Regional Dir. Dominic Abad said prospective investors are ...
CEB flights use NAIA 3 starting Aug. 1By Lynda B. Valencia.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, July 31 (PNA) -- Starting August 1, all flights of Cebu Pacific (CEB), the country's largest domestic carrier, will use the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA-3) for both domestic and international flights. CEB started its domestic ATR operations at ...
Davao sports officials hail Akikos PSC appointment.
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAVAO CITY, July 31 (PNA) Local sports officials here lauded the appointment of former Southeast Asian (SEA) Games gold medalist Gillian Akiko Thomson as new Commissioner of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC). Thomson replaced Jose Y. Mundo effective July 29, just 10 days ...
NorCot solon urges AFP, PNP to run after peace saboteurs.
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAVAO CITY, July 31 (PNA) -- North Cotabato (1st Dist.) Representative Emylou Talino-Mendoza on Thursday called on both the government and Moro rebels "not to use the peace process as an excuse for the failure to address the skirmishes" in her district. Talino-Mendoza, whose ...
PGMA leads schoolfeeding program & irrigation system inspection in Apayao.
Aug 01, 2008 ... BAGUIO CITY, July 31 (PNA) - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo early Thursday led the schoolfeeding program for more than 500 school children in Flora, Apayao, one of the active participants of the food security program in the Cordillera region in northern Luzon. This was ...
Two new Napolcom commissioners sworn in.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, July 31 (PNA)--- A former Senate legal counsel was sworn in Thursday afternoon as the vice chairman of the National Police Commission (Napolcom) in Makati City. Atty. Eduardo Escueta and another appointed commissioner, Luis Mario General, took their oath office before ...
Dagupan and Sarangani both claim to be bangus capitals of the the world.
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAGUPAN CITY, July 31 (PNA) - The city of Dagupan has proclaimed itself as the bangus capital of the world after installing a world record in the barbecue grill in 2003 in the Guinness Book. But unknown to many, the province of Sarangani in Mindanao is also claiming the same ...
New CHED OIC wants state universities, colleges transformed to corporations.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, July 31 (PNA) Commissioner Nona Ricafort has been designated officer-in-charge of the Office of the Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) effective Friday, August 1, as she reiterated her call for State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) becoming corporate entities. ...
LTO issued orange plate to e-jeepneys.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, July 31 (PNA) - After submitting proper documents to issue a plate number, the Makati City's E-Jeepney (electronic jeepney) has recently been issued orange plates of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) classified as "low speed vehicles" (LSVs). The environmental groups ...
Transport head urges motorists to bring 1-liter bottle when gassing up.
Aug 01, 2008 ... MANILA, July 31 (PNA) A transport group official on Thursday called on public utility vehicle drivers and private vehicle owners to bring with them a one-liter bottle to ensure that they get the right amount of fuel when gassing up at gas stations. Obet Martin, president of ...