SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, July 27 –- The police in La Union is winning the war against insurgency with the recent surrender of two rebel leaders operating in the province.
Senior Supt. Noli Talino, police provincial director, said those who surrendered are members of the Marxista Leninista Partido ng Pilipinas-Rebolusyonaryong Hukbong Bayan (MLPP-RHB). [...]
July 28, 2008
2 ranking rebel leaders surrender to La Union police
July 28, 2008
Soldiers kill 3 NPA rebels in Ilocos Sur firefight
SAN JUAN, Ilocos Sur, July 27 – Three New People’s Army rebels were killed in an encounter between Army soldiers and a small band of terrorists in the outskirts of barangay Arangin in Sta. Lucia town Saturday afternoon.
Col. Roy de Vesa, commander of the Army’s 50th Infantry Battalion based in San Juan, Ilocos [...]
July 28, 2008
Vigan City Agriculture and Fishery Council is RP’s ‘Gawad Saka’ national awardee
VIGAN CITY, July 27 – The Vigan City Agriculture and Fishery Council (Vigan CAFC) was adjudged as the country’s most outstanding agriculture and fishery council this year.
Mayor Eva Marie Singson-Medina and officers of the Vigan CAFC are slated to receive the prestigious national ‘Gawad Saka’ award from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo next month in Malacanang. [...]
July 28, 2008
AKFI seizes butchered dogs in Baguio raid
The Animal Kingdom Foundation Inc., a London-based animal rights group, raised the fight against animal abuse to the next level with simultaneous raids on dog traders in Baguio City yesterday, the day the anti-rabies law took effect.
At 7:30 a.m., the group, accompanied by members of the National Meat Inspection Service led by OIC director Dr. [...]
July 28, 2008
Spirits possess Tublay students
THE serenity of the little town of Tublay, Benguet was broken when 30 students started fainting one after another on what locals believe to have been caused by vengeful spirits.
Two of 21 female students of the Tublay School of Home Industries even became hysterical after their harrowing experience with the unknown Friday, July 25.
The town’s [...]
July 28, 2008
Bolt cutter gang eyed in 3rd Internet shop heist
ANOTHER major robbery was perpetrated on a third Internet shop within Baguio City in the past two weeks by what the police believe could be the same “bolt cutter” gang.
However, while only 17 computer units worth P170,000 were stolen from two Internet shops in Central Guisad and Puliwes last July 14 and 15, 18 computers [...]
July 28, 2008
DPWH regional chief’s rep smeared in letter
A GROUP of contractors from Baguio, Benguet, Mountain Province and Ifugao are pushing for the conduct of an investigation of Engineer Mariano Alquiza, director of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in the Cordillera.
Alquiza said the allegations contained in an open letter addressed to DPWH Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane are a demolition job and [...]
