Husband arrested for tearing wife's passport at NAIA
MANILA, Philippines: A man was arrested by aviation police for assaulting and tearing the passport of his wife, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who was about to leave for Kuwait.
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17 hurt in Cotabato province road accident
KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines — Up to 17 hitchhikers were injured when a light truck carrying them rolled over at a stretch of a highway in Makilala town in Cotabato province on Monday afternoon.
P7.48 million shabu seized in Iloilo
ILOILO CITY, Philippines — More than a kilo of shabu with an estimated street value of P7.48 million was seized in an anti-narcotics operation in Estancia, Iloilo on Thursday.
Boat capsizes off Cagayan; 14 rescued
MANILA, Philippines — Fourteen fishermen were rescued when their boat capsized in the waters off Calayan, Cagayan on Monday.
9,000 cops deployed for transport strike
MANILA, Philippines — Around 9,000 police personnel and 920 mobility assets will be deployed today for the transport strike, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP).
An emerging seafood capital
THE Jintotolo Channel, connecting the Visayan Sea and Sibuyan Sea, is an important shipping route between Luzon and the Visayas. It is also a rich fishing ground that has made Roxas City, located south of the channel, the Seafood Capital of the Philippines. However, there's an emerging seafood capital north of the channel where you can get the freshest seafood from the local market and have them cooked while enjoying kilometers of empty white sand beaches. This is the town of Balud, on the southern tip of Masbate.
Business with culture in Iloilo
Over the past year, still eagerly emerging from our post-pandemic stupor, my wife Beng and I have been traveling up a storm, limiting ourselves to local destinations such as Bacolod, Virac, Davao, Roxas City and Iloilo City. We chose these places because we’d never been there before – such as Virac and Roxas – or hadn’t visited for many years.