DIPOLOG CITY — The city council here recently passed a resolution urging the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to hunt down illegal handset radio operators and jammers that have already interfered with the radio transceivers of the city police station.

DIPOLOG CITY — To equip them with the knowledge and skills in food processing and sewing, some 300 housewives from this city have recently completed a livelihood training conducted by the city government’s Livelihood Skills Development and Enhancement Center (LSDEC).

EASTERN MINDANAO COMMAND, Davao City — A government trooper was wounded in an encounter with five heavily armed men believed members of the communist New People's Army (NPA) rebels in Barangay Del Rosario, Sinabat, Agusan del Sur Saturday morning.

MAKILALA, North Cotabato — Unidentified armed men torched a building of the Gocotan Elementary School at Barangay Gocotan, one of the remotest villages in Pikit town in North Cotabato, at around 7:30 p.m. Friday, the police reported.

MANILA — Malacanang said it supports the proposal of Senator Ralph Recto who asked the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to conduct a nationwide education campaign to all government offices for proper filing of the new statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN).

MANILA — President Benigno S. Aquino III has appointed former Zambales Vice Governor Anne Marie C. Gordon as member of the board of directors of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).

MANILA — Two lawmakers are seeking a P30,000 exemption on the taxable income of a taxpayer with disabled dependents to alleviate the taxpayer's financial hardships.

MANILA — The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a measure regulating the practice of geology to update and upgrade the profession as well as redefine and expand the scope of its practice.

MANILA — After years of waiting, the municipalities of Bacoor and Imus in Cavite Province are only a step away into their cityhood after the Bicameral Conference Committee approved the legislative proposals for its conversion into a component city.

MANILA — The Philippine Army and the Passion for Christ Nationwide Ministries (PCNM) are jointly conducting a series of medical and dental mission in Manila and San Juan City starting Saturday.

MANILA — The key for a working constitutional democracy lies in having a strong citizenry that is aware of its rights and duties.

MANILA — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said Saturday its Human Rights Office (HRO) has initiated a clarificatory meeting with a representative from the Human Rights Watch (HRW) to discuss about the actions being taken by the AFP in response to HRW’s report of the military’s alleged involvement in several human rights violation incidents in the past years.

MANILA — The doctor of the former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday recommended her extended stay at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC).

MANILA — Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon "Dinky" Juliano-Soliman said around 1,700 families from "Sendong"-battered Cagayan De Oro will be receiving homes from the government's permanent resettlement site in Calaanan, Barangay Canitoan, Cagayan De Oro.

MANILA — The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) successfully concluded on Friday, a three-day international road show in Hong Kong dubbed "Philippine Corporate Day".