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  • 9 killed in Philippine bank robbery
    By OLIVER TEVESASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MANILA, Philippines -- At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead in the head Friday in a bloody Philippine bank robbery, ...

  • Davao cops still clueless on murder of activist leader
    DAVAO CITY, Philippines -- Police here admitted Friday they were still facing a blank wall on Thursday's murder of an activist leader in Southern Mindanao. Chief Superintendent Andres Caro, Southern M...

  • Ombudsman panel summons Neri et al to probe May 28
    MANILA, Philippines -- The Office of the Ombudsman has summoned alleged key players in the national broadband network controversy to appear this May at the resumption of its investigation into the sca...

  • Floods leave 2 dead in Philippines as new storm approaches
    ILOILO, Philippines -- Two people were washed away by floodwaters and thousands are still in evacuation centers in the central Philippines after days of heavy rains pounded the area, officials said Fr...

  • 9 pardoned Magdalo officers freed
    MANILA, Philippines -- Nine Army junior officers who were pardoned by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo after they were convicted on coup d'etat charges were released from detention on Friday, a spoke...

  • Bank robbers kill nine in Philippines
    Police officers at the scene of the bank raid in the Philippines. Photograph: Reuters Bank employees were lined up and shot dead in an execution-style robbery carried out in the Philippines today, i...

  • Two swept away in Philippine floods as storm looms
    Two people have been swept away by floodwaters and thousands are still in evacuation centres after heavy rains pounded the central Philippines for days. The government weather station says the rains ...

  • Nine bank employees killed in robbery in Philippines - Summary
    Manila - Nine bank employees were killed Friday by gunshots to the head in a bank heist just outside the Philippine capital, a regional police chief said. The suspects were inside the bank and killed ...

  • Eight dead in Philippine robbery
    At least eight people have been shot dead during a bank robbery in the Philippines. Seven of the victims were employees of the bank in the town of Cabuyao, south of Manila, and one was a security g...

  • Nine killed in bank robbery in Philippines
    Nine killed in bank robbery in Philippines Friday robbery took place at bank south of capital Manila Shootout was country's deadliest bank robbery, police chief says

  • Balanced budget remains elusive amidst high inflation, global slowdown
    t was a promise not meant to be broken. A balanced budget this year could have been the President Gloria Arroyo and her economic team’s seal of good housekeeping and an indication of her ad...

  • RP anti-poverty projects eligible for US funding
    MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines is considered eligible to secure funding from the US-based Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), indicating that local, innovative, and results-driven anti-poverty ...

  • Help workers, provide non-wage benefits
    MANILA, Philippines - Malacanang on Friday appealed to big business to be more "generous" and extend non-wage benefits for workers burdened by a series of price increases in basic commodities. At t...

  • 2 Chinese nationals deported for illegal rice trade
    MANILA, Philippines - Two Chinese nationals caught hoarding and engaged in the illegal trade of rice products have been deported from the country, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Friday. The...

  • January-April dengue cases up; officials urge public to take precautions
    MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Health (DOH) expressed concern over the rising number of dengue cases this year, saying authorities have recorded nearly 10,000 dengue cases from January to Apr...




  • 9 killed during Philippine bank robbery
    The victims were found sprawled on the floor of a branch of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. in Cabuyao town in Laguna province, south of Manila, after the bank failed to open as scheduled at 9 a.m....

  • Eight killed in Philippine bank robbery
    MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Police in the Philippines say eight people, most of them bank employees, have been fatally shot in a bank robbery in a town south of Manila. A police official says the vict...

  • Bunye hits back at critics, insists Arroyo just doing her job in China meet
    MANILA, Philippines - Malacañang on Friday retaliated to criticisms thrown by the opposition over fresh controversies surrounding President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's meetings with ZTE Corp....

  • Two storms batter Philippines, strand hundreds of passengers
    Manila - A passenger ferry with about 400 people aboard was stranded at sea off the Philippines Friday as a tropical storm battered the country, officials said. The storm was the second to hit the Phi...

  • NCR wage board approves P20 wage increase
    MANILA, Philippines - The National Capital Region wage board on Friday approved the P20 salary hike for minimum wage workers. The board decided to integrate P15 to the basic pay and it will be effe...

  • 8 killed in Philippine bank robbery
    Gen. Ricardo Padilla said the victims were found sprawled on the bank's floor in the town of Cabuyao in Laguna province after customers alerted authorities that the bank had not opened as scheduled at...

  • 2 Sandigan divisions junk Perez
    MANILA, Philippines - The First and Fourth Divisions of the Sandiganbayan on Friday junked two separate motions filed by former Justice Sec. Hernando Perez seeking the suspension of proceedings on his...

  • 9 killed in bank robbery in Philippines
    At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead in the head Friday in a bloody Philippine bank robbery, police said. Another employee was in critical condition at a hosp...

  • Solon claims Comelec master list has 2M "flying voters"
    MANILA, Philippines - Despite repeated claims it will purge the voters' list, the Commission on Elections (Comelec)'s master list still has at least two million flying voters, an opposition la...

  • Lacson scores Palace effort to shield Arroyo from explaining China meeting
    MANILA, Philippines - Opposition Senator Panfilo Lacson on Friday scored Malacañang's efforts to shield President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from having to explain her meeting with officials o...

  • Palace "insider" likely to be named new Arroyo spokesman
    MANILA, Philippines - An "insider" with a Cabinet rank will likely replace Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye when he formally bows out of the Cabinet in July and assumes a new p...

  • 10 hurt in LPG blast in Quezon City - report
    QUEZON CITY, Philippines - Ten persons were reported injured after a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank exploded in a residential area in Quezon City before noon Friday. Radio dzBB's Mao dela C...

  • PNP to field 10,000 cops for school opening in June
    MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Friday said it will field some 10,000 personnel in Metro Manila alone this June, in time for the opening of classes. Radio dzBB's B...

  • Storm Signal No. 1 up in 6 Luzon areas - Pagasa
    MANILA, Philippines - Six areas were placed under Storm Signal 1 before noon Friday as tropical storms "Cosme" and "Dindo" continue to bring rains over Luzon and Western Visayas. In its 11 a.m. adv...

  • California man who moved millions of dollars to RP bank sentenced in US
    MANILA, Philippines - A man in California who transferred millions of dollars to a Philippine bank account was sentenced to 37 months in prison in connection with a scheme to defraud the US Export-Imp...

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