Angel under construction. Work has started on the annual Christmas display at Fuente Osmeña in Cebu City. (Sun.Star Cebu/Arni Aclao)
MANILA -- Ayala Land Inc. urged police Sunday to further investigate a deadly blast at one of the group's malls last month, saying it could not have been an accident.
Jaime Ayala, the president of Ayala Land Inc., said local and foreign experts hired by his firm had debunked the police conclusion that the October 19 blast at a Manila shopping mall, which killed 11, was caused by negligence.
DAVAO CITY -- The police and military are busy digging up what is believed to be a mass grave in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur where communist guerillas buried bodies of their slain comrades and victims of the group's kangaroo court.
CEBU CITY -- Guadalupe Barangay Captain Eugenio Faelnar is resigning as Cebu City Association of Barangay Councils (ABC) president to concentrate on his job in the barangay, in effect giving up a seat at the City Council.
KORONADAL CITY -- At least 65 villages in the agriculturally-dependent provinces of South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat are prone to flood, and this situation had caused the destruction of crops and properties worth at least P512 million since 1995.