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Tension gripped the Manila City Hall for several hours Wednesday morning after a male caller made a bomb threat there. Radio dzXL reported an unknown caller phoned the Office of the City Prosecutor…

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Bomb threat hits Manila City Hall

CAGAYAN de Oro will host hundreds of budding chess players as the Shell National Youth Active Chess Championships (Shell Active Chess) holds its first-of-two Mindanao legs in the city this weekend. R…

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Cagayan de Oro to host chess tilt

BAGUIO CITY — To ensure the commitment of the public in the uphill climb to bring back the cleanliness and beauty of this mountain resort city, Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan issued an order declarin…

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Baguio Clean-up Drive Launched

SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga — Some 273 youth trainees of the Provincial Manpower Training Center (PMTC) participated in the one-day job induction program conducted recently by the Pampanga provi…

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Pampanga Youths Get Trade Skills

VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur — Thousands of foreign and local tourists continue to visit this world’s heritage city daily even after the Manila hostage crisis happened the other week. This was a…

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Tourists Flock to Vigan

CABANATUAN CITY – The head of the country’s largest irrigation system which operates Pantabangan Dam, Asia’s biggest dam, has been named by President Aquino as the new chief of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) replacing Carlos Salazar.

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NIA has New Administrator

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) – Hallmark Cards Inc., a $4-billion empire built on a demand for printed sentimentality, enters its second century facing a weak economy and what could be an even grea…

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Greeting card giant Hallmark heads for its second century

CEBU CITY — The Regional Director of the Department of Health (DoH) in Central Visayas yesterday said dengue cases in the region has reached an alarming level and an outbreak of the disease coul…

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Dengue cases in C. Visayas alarming; outbreak feared

BATANGAS CITY – A municipal trial court has (MTC) found Batangas Vice-Governor Mark Leviste guilty beyond reasonable doubt of being the mastermind in the planting of a dummy bomb at the Batangas…

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Batangas Vice Gov. Mark Leviste plants bomb on foe's door

DAVAO CITY (PIA) – The proliferation of foreign tree species and the decreasing habitats of endemic native flora are said to be one of the contributing factors in the spread of mosquitoes and th…

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Planting of endemic tree species pushed