GENERAL SANTOS CITY—Government agents on Tuesday seized 2,000 geckos from a trading company here and are now preparing charges against the company owners and others believed involved in collecting and trading the protected species. Senior Supt. Albert Fierro, director of the police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Central Mindanao, on Wednesday said the [...]
IMUS, Cavite—Tension that could lead to bloodshed is gripping this town after a court recently ordered the incumbent mayor unseated and his closest rival in the 2010 elections installed in a ruling that also cast doubt on the accuracy of results of the country’s first fully automated elections that year. Supporters of Mayor Homer Saquilayan [...]
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna—What’s rolling fast in the university town of Los Baños in Laguna are two-wheelers of a varied lot—from refurbished mountain bikes to road racers and surpluses from Japan. Thanks to Jeremy Deanon, 23, a senior agricultural engineering student at the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) and cycling enthusiast, one can rent a [...]
ZAMBOANGA CITY—Authorities here yesterday presented as a bombing suspect a man who earns a living giving motorcycle rides to passengers and who had been arrested but freed for lack of evidence on a previous bomb attack that killed a US Green Beret. Police said Hussein Ahaddin, who drives a contraption called habal-habal here, was also [...]
DAVAO CITY—A climate of fear continues to grip a community of Italian missionaries that had seen three of its priests murdered in some of the country’s remotest provinces where they fought for civil rights and often clashed with the military. Fr. Pete Geremia, of the Pontificio Istituto Missioni Estere (Pime), said threats to him and [...]
An INQUIRER.net investigative report on organ donations and government regulation was adjudged among the best at the 7th Annual Population Development Media Awards.
LEGAZPI CITY—A total of P730 million has been released to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for infrastructure projects in Bicol, a top DPWH official in the region said. Danilo Dequito, DPWH head in Bicol, said P351.9 million would be spent on projects tagged as immediate and on a list called “Accelerated Disbursement [...]
OLONGAPO CITY—A magnitude 6 earthquake that struck off Zambales on Wednesday caused no damage or injuries, disaster response officials in the province said. Graciela Macabare, head of the provincial disaster risk reduction and management council, said residents felt the tremor past 8 a.m. but her office did not receive reports of earthquake-related damage or casualty. [...]
ZAMBOANGA CITY—Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo sought to remove all exemptions from the gun ban currently in place in this city and Basilan, saying so-called civilian police or military assets shouldn’t be given and allowed to carry guns to stop rampant criminality in the two areas. Robredo on Tuesday said he has asked police and military [...]
SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ—Forty new Chinese hybrid rice varieties will be planted in demonstration farms here in a bid to increase the number of varieties that can be used by farmers. “From the trials we hope we can select the 10 best varieties which we can enroll for the national cooperative testing,” said Emmanuel Sicat, [...]
DAVAO CITY—Communist guerrillas continued to attack military targets in Mindanao amid uncertainty over the fate of peace talks aimed at ending the 43-year-old Maoist insurgency. The latest of at least a dozen New People’s Army (NPA) attacks in Mindanao was Tuesday’s land mine attack in Paquibato district here, where three soldiers died. Maj. Jacob Obligado, [...]
Fire struck a residential area in Pasay City Wednesday night, said Fire Officer 3 Rizaldo Arroyo of the Pasay City Fire Department.
The Department of Health Center for Health Development Metro Manila Regional Director Eduardo Janairo revealed on Wednesday that there are 83 confirmed cases of A(H1N1) in Muntinlupa City.
