Despite the noise coming from hardcore environmentalists who oppose mining but propose no alternative to offset the economic losses should mining be stopped, former congressman Ace Barbers is making even more noise in support of mining.
...A jobless man stabbed dead his two-year-old nephew in Biñan City, Laguna yesterday, police said.
...Three suspected carjackers were killed in a shootout with lawmen after they stole two vehicles and staged a heist in a convenience store in Dasmariñas, Cavite before dawn yesterday.
...A passing vessel reportedly rescued 43 passengers and crewmembers of a motorized boat that sank off Surigao del Norte last Tuesday morning, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said yesterday.
...A three-minute tornado hit Pontevedra and Hinigaran towns in Negros Occidental Tuesday afternoon, destroying 97 houses in nine barangays, a report from the provincial social welfare office said.
...The use of child combatants poses a “serious threat” to the state forces’ campaign against armed insurgents, a multinational risk consultancy firm said.
...The Davao City council has finally approved the proposed 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant of Aboitiz Power Corp. as well as the conversion of the plant site in Binugao, Toril district.
...The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the conviction of Zacaria Candao, the first governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), for several counts of malversation of public funds amounting to P21 million.
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