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Arroyo in Samboan today for launch

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:59:48 +0800

PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo will be visiting Cebu today to inaugurate the roll on-roll off (Roro) link in Samboan town to Dapitan City in Zamboanga Del Norte.

Cris Saavedra files first COC in Cebu City

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:59:52 +0800

IT WAS no surprise to Commission on Elections (Comelec) Provincial Election Supervisor Lionel Marco Castillano that as of yesterday afternoon, no one filed a certificate of candidacy (COC).

No pressure: Gwen

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:03:00 +0800

CEBU Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia denied speculations she pressured Deputy Ombudsman for the Visayas Pelagio Apostol to clear her name in the ongoing investigation of the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) project.

PDEA agent instigated, supplied materials for shabu lab: lawyer

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:01:37 +0800

FIVE years and two months after that raid on a “mega-shabu laboratory” in Mandaue, surprising twists have developed.

Tomas pushes tandem of Junjun, Greg

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:58:29 +0800

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña yesterday said the proposed tandem of incumbent Vice Gov.

Atan dares Tomas to a ‘friend count’

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:55:39 +0800

IT’S said there are no permanent friends in politics, only permanent interests, but friends are suddenly an important pre-election issue in Cebu City.

IDC head vows to block LRT in full council

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:55:32 +0800

FOR snubbing the Infrastructure Development Committee (IDC) of the Regional Development Council (RDC) 7, proponents of the Light Railway Transit and Mono Rail Transit (LRT-MRT) should expect the same

Bakak’s fate now up to mayor

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:41:24 +0800

CEBU City Attorney Joseph Bernaldez said it is up to the executive department to impose additional sanctions on the owner of Bakak Resto Bar for serving liquor to students under 21 years old during cl

31 guns found abandoned inside jeepney at checkpoint in Danao

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:41:08 +0800

POLICE and traffic enforcers found a bag containing 31 firearms inside a jeepney at a checkpoint in Barangay Poblacion, Danao City.

Urban poor hold silent protest

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:40:12 +0800

WITH the University of the Philippines’ (UP) history of activism, a silent protest by placard-bearing urban poor members against the school is an unusual sight.

It will still be Mike, not Sonny for mayor

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:23:59 +0800

MAYOR Tomas Osme-ña, whom the Liberal Party (LP) appointed as its chairman for Cebu City, yesterday said he will not appoint his cousin, former senator John Henry “Sonny” Os-meña, as the party

Exporters aim for self-reliance

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:18:58 +0800

WHILE waiting for their share of the P1-billion Export Support Fund (ESF) from the government, Cebu-based exporters are focusing their energy and resources on drafting sector export marketing plans (S

Bank offers Veco auto-charge service

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:18:52 +0800

TO MAKE it more convenient for customers to pay power bills, the Visayan Electric Company Inc. (Veco) launched yesterday an auto-charge facility.

Batuhan: The politics of boxing

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:17:16 +0800

Allan S.B. Batuhan
Foreign Exchange

IT WAS a glorious weekend for the Philippines.

Desalination equipment supplier eyes expansion

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:17:10 +0800

A MANUFACTURER of saltwater desalination equipment targets to expand its operations in Cebu to include an assembly plant next year.

Almirante: Diminution of pay

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:15:51 +0800

Dominador A. Almirante
Labor case digest

PETITIONER Gualberto Aguanza was employed as a derrick man or crane operator aboard Bismark IV, a floating crane barge owned by respondents.

DTI pushes for bamboo usage

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:15:44 +0800

ENTREPRENEURS are encouraged to inject “bamboo branding” in their product designs to help mitigate poverty, climate change and disaster in the country.

The taste of Thailand

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:14:42 +0800

Food—be it meat, seafood or vegetables and fruits—is prepared almost in the same manner the world over: raw as in salads; boiled or steamed; fried or sautéed, roasted or grilled; and braised or b

HBO:It has to happen

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:12:21 +0800

THE president of HBO Sports said a fight between pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and the undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. “has to happen.”

Sira-sira store: Public fodder

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:12:16 +0800

Ober Khok

Gorres’ wife: I’m grateful for his 2nd life

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:11:20 +0800

LAST Saturday, Datches Gorres, the wife of Z Gorres, was worried.

Fadai ready to face Zarco

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:10:42 +0800

DEFTAC Cebu standout Sabah Fadai will once again showcase his exciting fighting style in the Universal Reality Combat Championship (URCC) XV: Onslaught tonight at the World Trade Center in Pasay City.

Limpag: Rope-a-dope, Pacquiao version

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:09:56 +0800

Mike T. Limpag
Fair play

I THOUGHT Manny Pacquiao was nuts last Sunday.

He lost his marbles, I say.

Rope-a-dope? Who the hell did he think he was? Muhammad Ali?

Mendoza: Logically, Mayweather should be it

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:09:17 +0800

Al. S. Mendoza
All write

OK, let’s cut to the chase. Let’s not dilly-dally. To tarry is to just delay the inevitable.

So, let’s get it on. Bring on Floyd Mayweather Jr.

The source of Pacquiao’s greatness

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:08:42 +0800

Helen Grace Pasiculan