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Shabu shipped in via parcel seized
The Bureau of Customs seized 16 grams of methamphethamine hydrochloride or shabu worth more than P160,000 which was hidden inside...
Alaminos City to draw up coastal management plan
ALAMINOS CITY—The city best-known for its Hundred Islands is looking at crafting an integrated coastal management plan to help in...
No warm welcome for Greece’s creditors
ATHENS—In Greece, hospitality is a concept as old as the Acropolis. But the country’s hated creditors cannot expect the usual...
Fading PNoy gives his final address
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III makes his final State-of-the Nation Address (SONA) today with his political clout fading and struggling to...
Palace ‘paranoia’ slammed
LEFTIST groups on Sunday slammed the Palace for setting up a fortress of steel and concrete barriers, barbed wire and...
PNoy to anoint Roxas this week
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III will this week anoint Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II as the Liberal Party’s standard bearer in...
Rise in poverty belies administration claims
THE growing number of poor Filipinos debunks the Aquino administration’s claim that its strategy for fighting poverty works and should...
Iglesia members support Manalo at big gathering
Hundreds of thousands of members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo gathered Sunday at the church’s Ciudad de Victoria in to...
Expelled minister says bets gave cash
AN expelled Iglesia ni Cristo minister on Sunday alleged that some unscrupulous church leaders were selling the denomination’s vote to...
House: Soak the rich, give the poor a break
CONGRESS is set to tax the rich more and lower the income tax of wage earners and middle income bracket...
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Authorities display potato chip and cookie cans that contain packs of cocaine, part of a stash of 14.36 kilos of...
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The government officially kicked off its Food Stamp Program (FSP) on Friday as part of its “No Hunger” campaign, with...
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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said a whole-of-nation approach is needed to rid the country of illegal drugs through prevention,...
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All regions will see an increase in daily minimum wages before the year ends, the Department of Labor and Employment...
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The website and member's portal of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) went back online yesterday after eight days of...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.