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Pacquiao’s win should lay to rest retirement talks: Bacolod mayor

BACOLOD CITY -- Mayor Evelio Leonardia, who carried the Philippine flag during Senator Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao’s fight against Argentinian Lucas Matthysse on Sunday, said the boxing icon’s successful comeback shows he is...

SSS-Davao rolls out ‘Sulit sa SSS’ campaign

DAVAO CITY -- The Social Security System (SSS) will be rolling out its two-day Sulit sa SSS campaign on July 16 and 17 that aims to raise awareness of the members on...

Random tests done to verify prevalence of drug use, not users: DepEd

MANILA -- Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Leonor Briones said Friday it is too early to conclude on the effectiveness of the random-sampling done by the department as the drug testing process...

Wife of slain N. Ecija mayor thanks PRRD, PNP for breakthrough in case

GEN. TINIO, Nueva Ecija --The wife of slain Mayor Ferdinand Bote is thankful about the arrest of two alleged gunmen and hopes the arms of the law would soon reach to the...

PNP assigns 2 cops as Trillanes’ security personnel

MANILA -- After recalling police security personnel of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV last week, the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Sunday confirmed that it has temporarily reassigned two police security personnel to...

JBC to tackle automatic inclusion of 5 senior justices in CJ shortlist

MANILA -- The Judicial Bar and Council (JBC) is set to deliberate on the inclusion of the five most senior Supreme Court (SC) justices in the shortlist of candidates for the Chief...

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