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18 including 8 Chinese nabbed for illegal mining in Surigao City

MANILA, Philippines — Eighteen individuals, including eight Chinese, were arrested on Saturday in Surigao City during a joint operation against illegal mining by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Philippine National Police. The DENR in a statement said its Environmental Law Enforcement and Protection Service and Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB)

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Lasting gift that keeps Angeles City reading

ANGELES CITY — When city librarian Erma Manalo thanked the children of Renato “Katoks” Tayag for their father’s donation of land for a city library 54 years ago, she recalled a legacy built over three generations of two families. Manalo described the 1,690-square-meter property as a “gift” during a commemoration of the late lawyer and

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Development banks pledge support in 1st Manila meeting

MANILA, Philippines — The heads of 10 multilateral development banks (MDBs) agreed to expand their financing capacity to help developing countries like the Philippines weather mounting economic pressures from geopolitical conflicts and increasingly severe climate disasters. In their first-ever meeting in the country on Saturday, the bank leaders pledged to strengthen cooperation in mobilizing private

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‘Millennial Saint’ relic touring Visayas churches

MANILA, Philippines — A relic of St. Carlo Acutis, the Italian teenager canonized in 2025 and now known as the “Millennial Saint,” will be put on display for public veneration at some churches in the Visayas from Nov. 26 to Dec. 6. It is the same relic — a portion of Acutis’ pericardium, or the

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This week’s milestones: Oct. 18 to Oct. 24

Oct. 19, 1938 Bacolod was formally inaugurated as a city of Negros Occidental by virtue of Commonwealth Act No. 326, approved on June 18, 1938. Built on the wealth of sugar plantations of the past, Bacolod has since grown into a first-class city with a population of 624,787 as of the 2024 Census. It is

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