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INDANG, Cavite: With the right blend of smartness and personality, Bicolana morena beauty Angel Brahms Malavega Bernarldez beat other entries to emerge as the Miss Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Luzon champion in the pageant held Saturday night at the Cavite State University International Convention Center.

IN the United Nations World Water Development Report 2023, published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or Unesco in March 2023, about 2 billion people in the world did not have access to safe drinking water and 3.6 billion lacked access to safely managed sanitation.

Naga City: All roads are heading to Naga City today as millions of devotee Bicolanos will pay homage to the miraculous image of Nuestra Señora de Peñafrancias fluvial procession on Saturday afternoon here.

Over 2,000 police personnel have been deployed to ensure the safety of the devotees

ABOUT 249 villages nationwide out of the 2,603 where election-related violence may occur were listed as areas of grave concern ahead of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE), the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Saturday.

Former NEDA director Jose Romeo Escandor says he could no longer perform manual labor or work outside an office because he is already 70 years old with health problems

LEGAZPI CITY: The Commission on Human Rights has started its probe on a series of killings in the municipality of Libon to uncover the perpetrators and put them behind bars, CHR Bicol director Arlene Alangco said.

TONGUES began wagging when the former president and speaker, now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, was shown posing in a picture with former vice president Maria Leonor Robredo, with Arroyo saying that they talked about Bicol politics. We all know that politics is about optics, and the image, and Arroyos comment, could mean a lot of things. It would be easy to interpret the meetup as an early warning shot about possible political realignments now being hatched. Some would interpret it as a ...

WITH the low pressure area (LPA) off Batanes likely to dissipate in 24 hours, the state-weather agency said on Thursday that the southwest monsoon, locally known as habagat, will continue to prevail across the country over the next few days.

The town of San Enrique has shown that a community that understands and appreciates how nature benefits them will act for a cause worth fighting for