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| Bond sale proceeds increase Philippine dollar reserves | GMA News
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines" dollar reserves increased as of end-December last year after the central bank earned from its foreign investments and the national government deposited proceeds from its bond sale. | | January 07, 2009 09:47 |
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| Cold front to bring rains in Luzon, Visayas - Pagasa | GMA News
MANILA, Philippines - A cold front may bring rains over portions of Luzon and Visayas while flashfloods and landslides loom over Bicol, state weather forecasters said Wednesday afternoon. | | January 07, 2009 09:01 |
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| Robust US-Philippine ties to remain under Obama - exec | GMA News
MANILA, Philippines - Washington's robust anti-terror alliance with the Philippines, including the presence of US troops in the southern Mindanao region, will almost certainly remain under Barack Obama's incoming administration, the Philippine defense chief said Wednesday. | | January 07, 2009 09:21 |
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| Coop employee shot dead in Batangas | GMA News
MANILA, Philippines - Police in Batangas province are searching for a motorcycle-riding gunman who shot dead an employee of a development cooperative in Lipa city Wednesday morning. | | January 07, 2009 08:42 |
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| Coop employee shot dead in Batangas | GMA News
MANILA, Philippines - Police in Batangas province are searching for a motorcycle-riding gunman who shot dead an employee of a development cooperative in Lipa city Wednesday morning. | | January 07, 2009 08:42 |
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| Surgeon tagged as mastermind in Masbate cathedral theft | GMA News
MANILA, Philippines - The police have tagged a surgeon and two cohorts as suspects in the robbery of the ivory head and hands of the Immaculate Conception statue inside a cathedral in Masbate city in central Philippines. | | January 07, 2009 05:16 |
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| Knives, cell phones found in Negros jail inspection | GMA News
MANILA, Philippines - At least 30 improvised knives and several cell phones were seized from inmates at the Negros Occidental Provincial Jail in Bacolod City during a surprise inspection Tuesday. | | January 07, 2009 02:04 |
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| Blast rocks Iglesia ni Cristo compound in Cotabato | GMA News
(Update) KIDAPAWAN, Philippines – A unidentified person lobbed a fragmentation grenade inside the compound of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) in Kabacan, Cotabato at around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, police said. | | January 07, 2009 02:36 |
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| CHR probes cops, PDEA in Negros 'executions' | GMA News
MANILA, Philippines - The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Negros Oriental will investigate local police and anti-drug operatives for the deaths of two police characters believed summarily executed last Dec. 22. | | January 07, 2009 02:20 |
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| Medical equipment stolen from Batangas hospital ICU | GMA News
MANILA, Philippines - Unidentified thieves stole critical medical equipment after sneaking into the intensive care unit of a government hospital in Batangas province, a radio report said Wednesday. | | January 07, 2009 02:54 |
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| Cops face blank wall on slay try on Cebu fiscal | GMA News
MANILA, Philippines - Investigators continue to face a blank wall in the shooting and wounding of a prosecutor in Cebu City Tuesday afternoon, a radio report said Wednesday. | | January 07, 2009 09:21 |
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| Task force to go after Aussie trader's killers - report | GMA News
MANILA, Philippines - Police in Iloilo province have formed a task force to go after at least three suspected robbers who killed an Australian trader in Ajuy town, a radio report said Wednesday. | | January 07, 2009 08:08 |
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| Call center agent robbed, shot in Bacolod | GMA News
MANILA, Philippines - Police in Bacolod City are now looking for two motorcycle-riding men who robbed and shot a call center agent before dawn Sunday, an online news site reported.
Visayan Daily Star reported that the men shot Ritchel Mae Dacuja, 27, after grabbing her bag at about 1 a.m.
Sunday in Bacolod City. | | January 07, 2009 05:27 |
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| Philippine rebels abduct 3 | Topix
COMMUNIST guerrillas said on Tuesday they took three policemen captive following an ambush on a patrol car east of Manila that killed an officer and wounded two others. | | January 07, 2009 02:31 |
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| Stranded sea cow saved by Filipino fishermen | Topix
Filipino fishermen rescued an endangered sea cow, pushing it back into open water after it was stranded off a beach in the western Philippines, conservationists said Tuesday. The World Wide Fund for Nature said two fishermen tied a rope around the refrigerator-sized mammal on Jan. 1, one day after it was trapped by low tide on the shore of Palawan island's Puerto Princesa city. After recuperating in the waist-high water, the 8.5-foot-long (2.6-meter-long) animal was declared fit for release by WWF activists. | | January 06, 2009 10:11 |
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| Armed Forces of the Philippines to be revamped | Topix
Manila: Major changes in the command core of the Armed Forces of the Philippines are set to take effect early this month with the scheduled retirement of two senior officers holding key military positions next ... | | January 04, 2009 06:34 |
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| Busy start to 2009 for GMA | Topix
President to visit Mindanao on first working day of year By GENALYN KABILING After recharging her batteries in Baguio City, President Arroyo will embark on a four-day journey in Mindanao starting on Monday, the ... | | January 02, 2009 08:36 |
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| Caraga, WV regions least corrupt, Sandigan records show | Topix
MINDANAOANS, Ilonggos, hold your heads high. Three decades' worth of records from the Sandiganbayan showed public officials from the Caraga Region and the Western Visayas are the least corrupt in the country. Peter J.G. Tabingo, Malaya | | December 31, 2008 09:57 |
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| Treading Softly in the Philippines | Topix
Why a low-intensity counterinsurgency strategy seems to be working there. by Max Boot & Richard Bennet 01/05/2009, Volume 014, Issue 16 Zamboanga City, Philippines The war on terror that the Obama ... | | December 31, 2008 02:46 |
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