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The U.S. Army on Thursday identified the soldier who died this week of injuries sustained during a bear attack in a military training area in Alaska.

Presumptive Vice President Sara Z. Duterte (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan) MANILA - Presumptive Vice President Sara Z. Duterte has agreed with incoming President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to head the Department of Education to help produce "skilled learners" for the country. Marcos, on Wednesday evening, said in a press statement that he would nominate Duterte as education secretary, which he said will be the beginning of the growth in the country's education sector a...

NEW TOLL RATES. The NLEX Corporation will start to implement new toll rates for North Luzon Expressway starting May 12, 2022. The Toll Regulatory Board gave NLEX Corporation the go-signal to increase its toll by PHP2 in the open system and PHP0.34 per kilometer in the closed system. (Photo courtesy of NLEX Corporation) CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga - The North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) Corporation will start to implement new toll rates for North Luzon Expressway starting May 12, this year. This i...

(File photo courtesy of DOLE) MANILA - Malacanang has attributed the improved employment situation in the country to the further reopening of the economy that generated more job opportunities amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. This, as acting Presidential Spokesperson and Communications Secretary Martin Andanar expressed elation Thursday over the results of the Philippine Statistics Authority's (PSA) March 2022 Labor Force Survey which showed an employment rate of 94.2 pe...

LEGAZPI CITY - Police and military forces clashed with New People's Army (NPA) members in a remote village in Palanas, Masbate on Monday, leaving two rebels dead, the Philippine Army (PA) said. In an interview on Wednesday, Maj. John Paul Belleza, 9th Infantry Division (ID) public affairs office chief, said support troops from the PA and Philippine National Police have so far spent more than 48 hours tracking down the 20-man NPA group. The firefight lasted for 15 minutes, which resulted in t...

ARMS CACHE. Several high-powered firearms of the New People's Army are recovered by government troops in a forested area of Barangay Calpi, Bulan, Sorsogon on Thursday (April 21, 2022). The arms cache was hidden inside two drums buried on the ground. (Photo courtesy of PRO-5) LEGAZPI CITY - Several high-powered firearms and ammunitionof the New People's Army (NPA) were recovered during joint operations of the Police Regional Office in Bicol (PRO-5) and the Philippine Army in a forested a...

LEGAZPI CITY-The Department of Agrarian Reform in Bicol (DAR-5) has conducted a validation and cleansing of its database on land acquisition and distribution to evaluate and identify deductible and unworkable landholdings. Gerard Buensalida, DAR Bicol spokesperson, in an interview on Friday, said the region still has 71,726 hectares of "undistributed" agricultural lands. Based on record, Camarines Sur has 25,391 hectares; Masbate 19,064 hectares; Sorsogon 11,198 hectares; Albay 9,702 h...

Sorsogon Gov. Francis Escudero (PNA file photo) LEGAZPI CITY - Sorsogon Gov. Francis Escudero, who is seeking a Senate comeback, on Tuesday urged the government to channel all revenues from taxes on fuel to a more substantial aid package for struggling households, instead of granting them a proposed monthly allowance. Escudero, in a statement, said Congress should pass a supplemental budget to ensure that revenue from the excise taxes, projected to reach PHP105.9 billion this year, would be used...

MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) has reversed a ruling by a lower court in Rizal finding a lawyer and her client guilty of indirect contempt and ordered them to pay a PHP5,000 fine. In a decision dated March 22, the CA's Sixth Division dismissed the charge of indirect contempt initiated by Angono, Rizal Municipal Trial Court (MTC) against lawyer Fay Isaguierre Singson. MTC Judge Katherine Jambaro-Altubar had found Singson and her client Senior Fire Officer 3 (SFO3) Roberto Z. Tirona guilty...

(Photo courtesy of Philippine Navy) MANILA - The French Navy has expressed willingness to work with its Philippine counterparts at sea. "We are ready to work with your forces at sea. We need to protect, we need to defend the freedom of navigation including (on) the West Philippine Sea," said Rear Adm. Jean-Mathieu Rey, Joint Commander of the French Armed Forces in the Asia-Pacific (ALPACI), during his courtesy call on Philippine Navy (PN) chief, Vice Admiral Adeluis Bordado, on Monday....