P100-M in smuggled laptops seized
Manila, Philippines - The Bureau of Customs (BoC) intercepted smuggled laptop computers from China valued at P100 million at the Port of Manila (PoM) yesterday. Bureau of Customs (BoC) Commissioner…
Bulacan farmers reject landgrab try
Manila, Philippines - Farmers from Bulacan demanded yesterday that Transportation and Communications Secretary Manuel “Mar” A. Roxas II stop his family from grabbing more than 300 hectares of farmland in…
DoJ clears businessman in ruling
Manila, Philippines - The Department of Justice (DoJ) recently upheld the Cheaper Medicines Law in dismissing the counterfeiting charges filed against a local drug distributor. In a six-page resolution, penned…
2 BIR offices ISO-certified
Manila, Philippines - Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Kim S. Jacinto-Henares formally issued yesterday International Standard Organization (ISO) certificates to two revenue district offices in Metro Manila for excellent…
Enough rice
Manila, Philippines - Longtime rice industry observer Manuel Q. Bondad believes there is enough rice for the entire country in spite of the damage wrought by typhoon “Pedring” in Luzon…
Woman wins Lotto 6/42 jackpot
Manila, Philippines - A 35-year-old married woman from Iloilo City joined the lotto instant millionaires’ club as she claimed her winnings last Wednesday in the September 24 Lotto 6/42 draw…
CA confirms Chairmen Brillantes, Tan
Manila, Philippines - The bicameral Commission on Appointments (CA) confirmed yesterday the appointments of Sixto S. Brillantes Jr. and Maria Gracia M. Pulido-Tan as Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Commission…
On target
Manila, Philippines - The Philippines is on track to meet its goal of providing 2.3 million poor households with conditional cash through the government’s flagship poverty reduction program called the…
Del Rosario new DFA undersecretary
Manila, Philippines - Ambassador Laura Q. del Rosario is the new Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Undersecretary for International Economic Relations, replacing Ambassador Antonio V. Rodriguez, who retired from the…
No crackdown
Manila, Philippines - The Philippine Embassy in Amman, Jordan has belied reports that a crackdown is being waged by Jordanian authorities against illegal aliens, particularly Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). In…
67 deported
Manila, Philippines - The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has deported 67 foreigners suspected of being members of an international syndicate engaged in telecommunications, Internet, and credit card fraud. Immigration Commissioner…
RP, 2 other nations lead countries in child-labor products
WASHINGTON (AFP) – India, Bangladesh and the Philippines lead the world in the number of products made by child workers, a US government stock-taking of the global scale of under-aged…
Alcala approves country’s halal standards
Manila, Philippines - The country is now on the road to carve a niche in the $3 trillion halal market after Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala approved the national halal…
‘Political prisoners remain in jails’
Manila, Philippines - The National Union of People’s Lawyers or (NUPL) Tuesday reiterated that there are some 360 political prisoners still languishing in various jails around the country contrary to…
Del Rosario defends US envoy’s statement
Manila, Philippines - US Ambassador Harry Thomas was merely dramatizing the serious situation of human trafficking in the Philippines when he stated that about 40 percent of foreign tourists come…
DPWH’s Singson named ‘water czar’
Manila, Philippines - Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson is the country’s new water czar to supervise the protocol on the release of water from dams during the typhoon…
