Archive for the ‘regional news’ Category

Police bag suspects in massacre of Korean family in Olongapo

Filed under regional news by Pangasinan Today on 01-08-2008

CAMP OLIVAS, PAMPANGA – Police have collared two of the five suspects in the massacre of a Korean family in Olongapo City. Read the rest of this entry »

Ex-Apalit mayor slain in Bulacan

Filed under regional news by Pangasinan Today on 01-08-2008

CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga - Motorcyle-riding gunmen shot and killed a former mayor of Apalit, Pampanga while he was in Barangay Poblacion in Calumpit, Bulacan Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »

MILF urges critics of homeland accord to back peace process

Filed under regional news by Pangasinan Today on 01-08-2008

The chief peace negotiator of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Mohager Iqbal on Thursday said that there is no need for North Cotabato Gov. Jesus Sacdalan and all the members of the province’s legislative body to ask the Supreme Court (SC) to disclose the controversial ancestral domain agreement. Read the rest of this entry »

Baguio City may declare ‘state of calamity’ due to garbage problem

Filed under regional news by Pangasinan Today on 27-07-2008

Baguio City Vice Mayor Daniel Farinas declared Friday that Baguio City’s depressing state of overflowing garbage and the lack of new dumpsite areas are enough reasons to put the city under a state of calamity. Read the rest of this entry »

Suspected rebels burn bunkhouse of drilling firm in Negros Occ

Filed under regional news by Pangasinan Today on 25-07-2008

Suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA burned a bunkhouse of the United Philippines Drilling Company in Skid 7, Vista Alegre, Barangay Nabulao in Sipalay City around 9 p.m. Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »

US sends attachés to aid probe on La Union shabu lab

Filed under regional news by Pangasinan Today on 25-07-2008

Alarmed over the discovery of an alleged one-trillion-peso shabu laboratory in Naguilian, La Union, the United States government has dispatched representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Immigrations and Customs to help in the preliminary investigation. Read the rest of this entry »

Sports hotel to rise in Subic Freeport

Filed under regional news by Pangasinan Today on 25-07-2008

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT - A $1-million “sports hotel” featuring an Olympic-sized swimming pool will soon boost the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority’s (SBMA)thrust to promote Subic as a major sports destination not only in Luzon or in the Philippines, but in Asia as well. Read the rest of this entry »

At least 30 injured in Davao Sur bus bombing; PNRC says no fatalities yet

Filed under regional news by Pangasinan Today on 25-07-2008

At least 30 people have been injured as a suspected bomb exploded inside a bus in Digos City, in Davao del Sur province, Thursday noon. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Baguio is becoming the dirtiest city in RP’

Filed under regional news by Pangasinan Today on 23-07-2008

Baguio City residents are calling for the immediate resolution of the city’s garbage problem as city officials continue to grapple with the problem of finding a new dumpsite. Read the rest of this entry »

Dengue cases in Ilocos Norte up this year

Filed under regional news by Pangasinan Today on 23-07-2008

The number of dengue cases in Ilocos Norte has increased for the past six months compared to last year, a health official said Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »