‘Ukay’ owner robbed
An ukay-ukay (secondhand clothes) store owner lost more than P300,000 worth of valuables to three robbers who initially posed as customers last Wednesday. Insp. Jimmy Labarda of the Manila Police District theft and robbery section said in his report that Peter Gonzales, 34, was manning his ukay-ukay store at the Bambang market on Bambang Street in Tondo, Manila, when three men entered the establishment and after waiting for the other customers to leave, announced a heist. They took at gunpoint the victim’s gold necklace worth P200,000, a gold bracelet valued at P100,000 and his cell phone before escaping on a motorcycle. Jeannette I. Andrade
Out with toxic cosmetics
The Manila City Council has unanimously passed a resolution urging local officials to remove mercury-tainted cosmetics from some Chinese drug stores and beauty shops in the city. Under the resolution penned by Councilor Numero Lim, the city health department will coordinate with the Food and Drug Administration, health department, National Bureau of Investigation and national police to enforce the ban. Jaymee T. Gamil