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Two suspected hired gunmen shot to death a teenaged maid and a construction worker in Barangay Central, Quezon City Tuesday night.

 

According to investigators, the shooting incident happened in front of the Farmacia East Drug along Matapang Street in Brgy. Central at around 9:30 in th... read more...

Five construction workers died after a portion of the land they were digging collapsed on them, Cagayan de Oro police said Tuesday.

The victims were working on an eight-meter excavation site in Taekwood Hills Subdivision, Upper Zone 3, Agusan Village, around 3:30 p.m. when the landslide...

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The Supreme Court (SC) ruled on Wednesday that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo could appoint a replacement for outgoing Chief Justice Reynato Puno despite the ongoing 60-day ban on appointments before the May 10 elections.

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Maverick director Brillante Mendoza’s latest film Lola won the Grand Knight Award at the 27^th Miami International Film Festival held in Florida, USA last week.

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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has approved a recommendation from Election and Barangay Affairs Department Director Teopisto Elnas, Jr. to extend “preferential treatment” to elderly, pregnant, and disabled voters during the country’s first automated elections in May.

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Maynilad Water Services Inc. , which provides water for the western side of Manila, will be lowering its rates from the start of April to the end of June after it was granted a foreign-currency differential adjustment (FCDA) of P0.1 per cubic meter.

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Former two-time World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Mexican boxer Jose Luis Castillo is retiring.

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