7 still missing in ferry sinking
By Mar S. ArguellesSearch and rescue teams on Saturday failed to find the seven missing passengers of the two days after the roll-on roll-off vessel sank off Burias Island in Masbate.
Search and rescue teams on Saturday failed to find the seven missing passengers of the two days after the roll-on roll-off vessel sank off Burias Island in Masbate.
A court stenographer lost her job after the Supreme Court approved recommendations that she be taken out of the rolls for unsatisfactory performance.
Authorities in Southern Tagalog have launched a manhunt for a wanted criminal and his companion who allegedly shot dead a police officer and a Philippine Coast Guard personnel on a boat bound for Puerto Galera in Oriental Mindoro.
A spirited group of residents of Buguias, Benguet, who had come from a local politician’s thanksgiving party, traveled through rain and heavy fog on the Halsema Highway on their way home to Barangay (village) Abatan on Saturday afternoon.
Hotel and restaurant owners here have petitioned Malacañang to include Baguio among the cities that would host meetings during the next Asia Pacific Economic Conference (Apec). But they attached a request: Please fix up the local airport.
An explosion of still undetermined origin killed two persons and wounded two more in the town of Balud in Masbate on Thursday (June 6), a sketchy report from police said.
The National Bureau of Investigation seized three vehicles believed to have been stolen, on board a commercial vessel at the Port of Manila on Wednesday.
A day after the robbery of a remittance center here, robbers struck again on Wednesday afternoon and victimized another pawnshop and remittance center in Naga City, 22 km south of this city.
Farmers on Tuesday slammed President Aquino over his alleged failure to fulfill his promise of distributing lands to them with only a year left before the expiration of the agrarian reform program.
The divide was once palpable between residents of two villages here, separated by a 2.5-kilometer walk never taken, where conversations were never had and laughs were never shared.
A tattered United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) tent and makeshift buildings cobbled from scavenged materials are the new classrooms for some 400 elementary pupils at Andap village here as the new school year opens Monday.
Resorts and boat owners in this coastal town have been cashing in on the presence of “butanding” (whale sharks) here.
Four children were feared dead after they were buried alive in a huge landslide in Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay, police reported Thursday.
