Buying new SIM card? ID may soon be required
BY PRINCE GOLEZ
Manila Reporter
MANILA – A House member has proposed to record the identities of prepaid SIM card buyers.
House Bill 3928 introduced by Cong....
Dep’t of Internet pushed
BY PRINCE GOLEZ
Manila Reporter
MANILA – The government has been urged to create a new department that will oversee the quality and prices of Internet...
EU: PH maritime education improves
By SAMMY JULIAN
Manila News Bureau Chief
MANILA – The Philippines has made appreciated efforts to bring its maritime education, training and certification system in line...
Province bares 7 investment areas
By EUGENE ADIONG
BACOLOD City — Negros Occidental has seven investment areas, the provincial government investment consultant Rafael Coscolluela revealed.
These are tourism, agribusiness, renewable energy,...
3 killed in EB Magalona gunfight
By EUGENE ADIONG
BACOLOD City — Three alleged robbers were killed while a policeman was seriously injured in a gunfight between armed men and the...
Guv to back Albee’s Senate bid
By EUGENE ADIONG
BACOLOD City — In case 3rd District Rep. Alfredo Abelardo Benitez decides to run for Senate in 2016, Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr....
Roxas water district mired in P1-B debt
By RALPH JOHN MIJARES
ROXAS City — The Metro Roxas Water District (MRWD) has incurred more than a billion pesos worth of debt, its general...
Improve services, ex-GM dares MRWD
By RALPH JOHN MIJARES
ROXAS City — A former general manager of the Metro Roxas Water District (MRWD) challenged the water distribution facility to improve...
Kalibo, volunteer group win ‘Gawad Kalasag’
By BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
KALIBO, Aklan — The municipal government here and a volunteer group were declared winners in the 2014 Gawad Kalasag: Search...
Sackloads of rice seeds ‘missing’
BYÂ GLENDAÂ SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO – Under its Rice Development Program, the provincial government purchased fertilizers and palay seeds for distribution to farmers. But the Provincial Agriculture Office...