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San Juanico Bridge lighting completion date moved to April 2019

TACLOBAN CITY -- The Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) has pushed back the completion date for the PHP80 million San Juanico Bridge lighting project from November 2018 to April...

TUCP says P18-P23 daily wage hike ‘an insult’ to workers

MANILA -- Organized labor took the PHP18 to PHP23 daily wage increase figure being floated in some circles as a virtual slap in the face of millions of Filipino workers now...

P716-M Tacloban terminal project to proceed: DOTr

TACLOBAN CITY -- The long-aspired PHP716-million Tacloban Airport terminal building construction project will proceed this year, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) assured local officials here Thursday. DOTr Project Management Service Director Eduardo...

Batangas women leaders mobilized as civil registration agents

BATANGAS CITY – Some 50 local women leaders, who are presidents of their respective women’s groups of the Kalipunan ng Liping Pilipina (KALIPI) from different barangays in this city, are now...

Man who escaped from prison 18 years ago nabbed in SoCot drug raid

GENERAL SANTOS CITY--Police operatives arrested a long-time fugitive and alleged member of a defunct notorious kidnap gang in Central Mindanao in an anti-drug operation Thursday dawn in a village in Surallah...

500 senior high school grads in Soccsksargen hired in job fairs

GENERAL SANTOS CITY--Some 500 Senior High School (SHS) graduates in the Soccsksargen region have been hired by local companies in a series of job fairs facilitated by the Department of Labor...

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