Woman killed, man wounded in Mindoro shooting
By Madonna T. Virola
A woman was killed while a man was wounded after one of two assailants on a motorcycle shot them in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro on Thursday morning, police said.
A woman was killed while a man was wounded after one of two assailants on a motorcycle shot them in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro on Thursday morning, police said.
The provincial government of Romblon has adopted an environmental ordinance that imposes strict limitations on mining and logging in the resource-rich province.
Port authorities here have grounded all ships of Besta Shipping Lines, which owns the roll-on-roll-off MV Baleno 168 that sank after seawater flooded the vessel as it was about to dock at the Calapan port on Thursday morning.
At least 55 passengers were rescued from a ship that took in seawater as it was about to dock here Thursday.
As doubts hovered over the legitimacy of the Jan. 6 shooting in Atimonan town in Quezon, the man said to be the main target of the bloody police operation was buried in Calamba City on Tuesday.
A “school-on-the-air” is teaching people engaged in agriculture in Calapan City in Mindoro Oriental how to unlearn harmful agricultural practices and how to learn what works best.
CALAPAN CITY—Liwagao, an island southeast of Bulalacao town south of Oriental Mindoro, has a long stretch of white sand beach and therefore seen as a potential tourist crowd drawer. It is also called Libago Island and is a sitio of Barangay Maasin of the southernmost town of Bulalacao under Presidential Decree No. 1801. The [...]
CITY OF CALAPAN — Oriental Mindoro officials expect to be doubly benefited—with more power and more tourists—when a P6-billion wind power project is finally established in the resort town of Puerto Galera. Wind Energy Power System (WEPS) plans to put up a 48-megawatt wind facility on a 1,296-hectare property in the mountain village of Baclayan. [...]
There is no ban on gay or transexual performers in Puerto Galera, a spokesman for the town’s mayor said Friday.
CITY OF CALAPAN, Philippines—A Risso’s dolphin, almost 3 meters long, beached in the coastal village of Wawa in this city Friday morning and was released to the deeper sea after over an hour, said an official at the Provincial Agriculture Office-Fisheries and Coastal Resource Management Division (Pago-FCRMD). Rhodora Ramiento, agricultural technologist at Pago-FCRMD, who went [...]
