A private guard walks around burnt buses in Manila's Quezon City Thursday. Armed men claiming to be communist rebels barged into the compound of a bus company Victory Liner early Thursday and set five buses on fire, police said. (AP photo)
CEBU CITY -- The minimum daily wage in Central Visayas was increased by P17 Thursday.
Members of the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) approved the P17 daily increase during final deliberations at the Casino Español late Thursday afternoon.
MANILA -- A group of armed men believed to be members of the communist New People's Army (NPA) barged into the terminal of the Victory Liner in Cubao, Quezon City on Wednesday night and burned at least three of its buses, police and military officials reported Thursday.
MANILA -- Four of the suspects in last week's bloody robbery at the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) branch in Cabuyao town, Laguna province were shot dead by policemen in separate operations.
ILOILO CITY -- A day before his 50th birthday, Ajuy town Vice Mayor Ramon Rojas was gunned down while jogging with a friend along Barangay Central, Ajuy town in Iloilo province.