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Middle East needs more female nurses

LAOAG CITY -- Hospital employers from Saudi Arabia are looking for more female nurses to work in the Middle East. According to Ann Marie Lizette Bitancor-Atuan of PESO-Ilocos Norte, a special recruitment activity...

NBI nabs Cebu developers trying to “convert” protected mangroves

MANILA -- The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Tuesday announced the arrest of eight persons for "developing" protected inalienable mangroves and forest lands into a residential subdivision in Lapu-Lapu City,Cebu. Speaking to...

DILG orders mayors to rid nat’l highways of pedicabs, tricycles

MANILA -- The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is reiterating its call to all city and municipal mayors to ban pedicabs and tricycles along national highways, whether in Metro...

TWG formed to consolidate bills on higher alcohol excise taxes

MANILA -- The House of Representatives ways and means committee on Tuesday formed a technical working group (TWG) to consolidate two measures seeking to increase the excise tax rates imposed on alcohol...

Big hike in local pump prices set Tuesday

MANILA – With soaring world crude prices as a backdrop, local oil companies get set to implement a big time increase in pump prices effective 6 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2. In separate announcements,...

PH Navy thanks Russian warm welcome in historic visit

MANILA -- The head of Naval Task Force (NTF) 87 expressed his utmost gratitude to the Russian government for the warm welcome accorded to the officers and enlisted personnel aboard strategic sealift...

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