Sunday, April 20, 2008 (Philippines)

SANTANDER’S PRIDE. With their dance moves, performers from Barangay Talisay show how their delicacy tostado is cooked–batil (beat), ligis (knead), hulma (form), horno (bake). The contingent won the grand prize in the Tostado Festival. The activity is one of the highlights for the town fiesta today and tomorrow in honor of Señor San Gabriel. (Sun.Star Photo/Amper Campaña) A JOINT team from the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG) and the police’s Regional Intelligence Office raided a firm in Mandaue City yesterday and seized 18 Korean-made vehicles that were allegedly smuggled. PASG-Cebu Assistant Director Jojo Collantes told Sun.Star Cebu that the cars-–several units of Kia Rio, Hyundai Sonata and Kia Sportage-–were taken from Song Pa Motors Trading and were brought to the customs area of the Cebu International Port. Collantes said the cars have plate numbers issued by the Land Transportation Office (LTO). The plates, however, turned out to have been issued for other vehicles. [full story]