Who can resist buying a smiling souvenir -- something that can only be associated with Bacolod and nowhere else? (Sun.Star Bacolod/Nicolas Delfin)
MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed Wednesday Administrative Order (AO) 160 that empowered the DPWH to abate and/or bring down billboards, whether commercial or otherwise, throughout the country in anticipation of the arrival of at least six more typhoons.
CEBU CITY -- Despite fears of offending the World Bank Group, one of the country's largest financing partners, the Cebu City Council approved a resolution questioning the consultancy services the International Finance Corp. (IFC) is providing Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD).
BISLIG CITY -- A 60-year-old woman was killed, 25 others were injured and P150-million estimated worth of properties were razed when a fire, the biggest in years, hit a residential area in Bislig City on Tuesday, police said.
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Unidentified motorcycle gunmen on Wednesday ambushed a car carrying an official of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (Armm) in the southern Philippines, police and military said.
