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LEGAZPI CITY — Police arrested seven people for allegedly engaging in unauthorized small-scale mining in a mountainous area of San Andres town in Catanduanes. The suspects were arrested in Barangay Cabungahan and were caught with six shovels, six digging bars, six flashlights, five pairs of gloves, three wooden gold-panning pans, and three wooden sluice box

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) bestowed its “highest honors” on a top-ranking New People’s Army (NPA) leader killed during fierce military encounters in Agusan del Sur recently. In a tribute on Tuesday, the CPP Central Committee extolled Julia Cagadas-Lastimosa, 66, known as “Ka Rida,” as a “revolutionary hero.”

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) has reminded employers to observe proper wage rules during the special non-working days on Nov. 16 to 18, declared in connection with the Philippines’ hosting of the 49th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits. Under Labor Advisory No. 16, employees who do not work on the

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said it was able to drive out a Chinese vessel and 24 smaller boats that were surrounding Kota Island in the West Philippine Sea on Monday. PCG spokesperson Rear Adm. Jay Tarriela said the smaller boats were deployed around the Philippine-occupied island apparently to gather information on

MANILA, Philippines — Davao City Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte faced sustained prosecution questioning on Tuesday over 19 city government contracts worth P33.2 million awarded to GenCorp Industries Inc., a company his sister, Vice President Sara Duterte, declared as a business interest in her statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN). Baste was declared a

MANILA, Philippines — The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) will continue to bring rains over Palawan, and parts of Visayas and Mindanao while fair weather will be seen over the rest of Luzon on Wednesday, according to the state weather bureau.  In the 5 a.m. weather forecast of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration,

MANILA, Philippines — Former Speaker Lord Allan Velasco and his wife have been out of the country for days since Aug. 30, or days before his former security aide linked them to alleged cash deliveries, worth more than P3 billion, that he made to members of the Duterte family. National Bureau of Investigation Director Melvin

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (Pidsog) is pushing three policy measures to improve access to maternal care, including the inclusion of recommended vaccines in Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth’s) antenatal care package. The group plans to develop a policy brief seeking the inclusion of tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Audit (COA) has found several “unverifiable” beneficiaries in the senior high school voucher program of the Department of Education (DepEd), which resulted in an “overpayment” of P938,000 worth of government assistance. The existence of these beneficiaries could not be verified because they have either dropped out, transferred schools, did

MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan Third Division has dismissed the second motion of former Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. for its chair, Associate Justice Karl Miranda—the sole judge who denied his bail petition—to inhibit himself from his malversation case. In a resolution dated Sept. 24, the antigraft court said it denied the motion for lack