MANILA, Philippines - Aboitiz Power Corp. on Thursday reported that its recurring net income for the first six months of the year more than doubled on higher revenues from its power generation and power distribution businesses.
In a statement to the Philippine Stock Exchange, AP said its recurring net income for the January to June period [...]
MANILA, Philippines - The House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms on Thursday morning approved the consolidated bill postponing the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) elections scheduled on August 11, radio dzBB reported.
Radio dzBB’s Rowena Salvacion said 17 lawmakers voted for the postponement, three opposed it while two abstained from voting.
Earlier, President Gloria Macapagal [...]
CAMP OLIVAS, PAMPANGA – Police have collared two of the five suspects in the massacre of a Korean family in Olongapo City.
Senior Superintendent Guillermo Eleazar, regional chief of 3rd Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (3CIDU), declined to identify the suspects but said the two are now under their custody.
He said the suspects are hardened criminals [...]
More than twenty people from Mallig town in Isabela province were rushed to the Roxas District Hospital reportedly after eating agar-agar salad in a birthday party Sunday afternoon.
MANILA, Philippines - The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) on Thursday admitted that the government currently has no clear-cut long-term solutions to the food and fuel crises plaguing the country.
A report over radio dzXL quoted NEDA deputy director-general Augusto Santos as telling the Senate committee on economic affairs that the country only has short-term [...]
MANILA, Philippines — A fisherman was reported missing after a cargo vessel rammed into the boat that he and three others were riding off the coast of Baliguian Island in Iloilo on Wednesday.
Online news site Visayan Daily Star (www.visayandailystar.com) reported on Thursday that John Piñon, 22, of Daan Banwa, Victorias City in Negros Occidental, was [...]
MANILA, Philippines - The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) scored Thursday an alleged “secret visit” by US military officials to Zamboanga City over the weekend.
In a statement, the CPP also contested government claims that the special contingent of the US military assigned to the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines (JSOTF-P) is merely part of [...]
Television host-endorser Bianca Gonzalez said that she is enjoying her single life.
She said that she is really happy with her work, and not in a hurry to look for a new romance.
“I’m single and very, very happy. The fulfilling thing about it sobrang dami. Kasi ‘yun nga I do what I love doing tapos [...]
A motorcyle-riding man on his way home died after a truck rammed him from behind while cruising along Ortigas Avenue in Pasig City shortly before dawn Wednesday. The crash also pinned the victim to a parked cable truck ahead of him. The impact cut his body in half.
Police and rescue workers found Wilfredo Gregorio’s body [...]
The current presiding justice of the appellate court is not the first Vasquez to don the magistrate’s robe. His father, Conrado Vasquez Sr., served as Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals in 1973 and was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1992 before becoming the first Ombudsman in 1998.
The younger Vasquez initially [...]