Workers load onto a barge sacks of oil-coated sands for recycling at the coastal village of Cabalagnan in the island of Guimaras Monday. Massive oil clean up continues in the country's worst oil spill with the Board of Marine Inquiry recommending the filing of charges against the skipper of the ill-fated oil tanker MT Solar 1. (AP photo)
MANILA -- A hole found on oil tanker Solar 1 that sank off Guimaras Island last August 11 was deliberately made, said a team tasked to look into the incident.
CEBU CITY -- The only way a policeman could have avoided imprisonment in the Elpidio dela Victoria case was for the defense to present someone who "looks, walks and moves" like him, a judge said.
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Combined forces from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and anti-terrorist Task Force Zamboanga (TFZ) intercepted on Monday a shipment of some 600 kilos of explosive ingredient off Zamboanga City.
