Leftist students display placards during a press conference opposing the government's cyber education project Saturday in Quezon City. The students said the U.S.$465.5 million project with China is overpriced and is impractical at this time since television and satellite broadcasting connections will be set up in far-flung areas where electricity is a luxury. (AP Photo)
CEBU CITY -- A bronze trunk believed to contain counterfeited bonds worth US$3 trillion was abandoned in a banana grove in the southern town of Argao last Friday.
A report from the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) stated that a Caucasian man who did not have a shirt on drove a red Mitsubishi Pajero to Sitio Prenza, Barangay Talaga and dropped off an antique-finish bronze chest in a banana grove beside the highway and drove away further south.
MANILA -- Money may have changed hands during the Thursday breakfast meeting in Malacañang between President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her allies in the House of Representatives, a senior Palace aide admitted Saturday.
DAVAO CITY -- An American national who worked as a clown at an orphanage in Davao Oriental was charged with child pornography and other offenses in the United States after authorities discovered photos of naked young boys in his digital camera.
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- The Canadian Embassy has advised its citizens in the country against traveling to 10 places in Mindanao identified to have terror threats unless they have compelling business or family reasons to do so.
