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NCR fire bureaus on alert starting Dec 19
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MANILA — The Bureau of Fire Protection in Metro Manila will go on heightened alert starting December 19. According to a GMA News report, the move is to address the possibility of more fires during the holidays. The heightened alert will last until at least the first week of January…
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Militants to hold “Occupy” rally at Mendiola on Dec. 6
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MANILA — Militant labor groups have announced plans to hold a Philippine version of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement at Mendiola Bridge near Malacañang on December 6. Kilusang Mayo Uno said the camp-out will voice calls for radical social change amid intensifying hunger and poverty in the country. Dubbed “Kampuhan…
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Gov’t to ensure labor rights of security guards
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MANILA – The Department of Labor and Employment has announced that it is looking on how to ‘secure’ the rights and social protection benefits of security guards. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said that her department is now solidifying the guidelines toward voluntary compliance of security agencies with general labor standards…
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CIDG reshuffle starts
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MANILA — Police Senior Superintendent Bernabe M. Balba is now the head of Southern Tagalog (Calabarzon) Region Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG). Police Director Samuel D Pagdilao Jr., CIDG director, said the appointment is part of the first wave of adjustments he has ordered to further improve the performance…
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Riding-in-tandem robbers take away P100K from single mom, then shoot her
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MANILA – Three men on a motorcycle shot dead single mother Shiela Mendoza who has just withdrawn cash worth PhP100,000 from a bank in Manila last Friday (December 2), reports said. The thirty-seven year old woman was first shot in the hands so she would release her bag and was…
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PNoy to keynote 1st National Summit on Criminal Justice
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MANILA — President Benigno Aquino III will be the keynote speaker of the 1st National Summit on Criminal Justice on December 5 and 6 in Manila. The event is a gathering of stakeholders of the justice system to reexamine the institutional criminal justice issues and to forge strategies towards enhanced…
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Palace releases list of 2012 holidays
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MANILA – Malacañang has released the dates of the official holidays for the year 2012. Among the new non-working holidays next year are the Chinese New Year (January 23) and Nov. 2, or All Souls’ Day. In Proclamation No. 295, President Benigno Aquino III noted that Chinese nationals all over…
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Arroyo to be detained at Veterans Hospital
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MANILA — The Regional Trial Court Branch 112 of Pasay City, the court hearing the electoral sabotage case of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, ordered Thursday the transfer of the former head of state from St. Luke’s Medical Center to Veterans Memorial Medical Center. Judge Jesus Mupas gave the Department of…
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