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MANILA -- Oil firms are expected to cut pump prices of their products by no less than 50 centavos per liter on gasoline next week as global prices continue to tumble due to oil glut in the international market.In an advisory, Eastern Petroleum President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Fernando Martinez said that diesel and gasoline (per liter) prices may decrease by close to a peso and more than 50 centavos.He noted that world oil prices continue to be low until August -- due to the oversupply situation in the market.However, Martinez said that oil prices for September delivery is expecte

COTABATO CITY – The Cotabato Light and Power Company
(Cotabato Light) has started implementing rotational brownout in its franchise
area, the power firm announced today.

Arlene Hipega, Cotabato Light corporate communications
officer, told DXMS Radyo Bida that the five hour scheduled brownout was
rationed in all feeders in its franchised area.

COTABATO CITY - A magnitude 4.8 earthquake hit the coastal towns of Sultan Kudarat province early Wednesday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.In a statement sent to and//www.ndbcnews.com.ph www.ndbcnews.com.ph , Phivolcs said the epicenter of the 2:51 a.m.

MANILA -– President Benigno Aquino III on Monday highlighted in his sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA) the long list of achievements of his administration that has even eclipsed the feat of his predecessor.Feeling slightly ill, the President arrived at 3:35 p.m. and skipped the traditional walk but welcomed by Senate President Franklin Drilon and House Speaker Feliciano Sonny Belmonte Jr.The President entered the Batasang Pambansa session hall at exactly 4 p.m.

MANILA - Another tiniwalag (expelled) minister of Iglesia ni Cristo today corroborated the claims of Nathaniel Angel Manalo of rampant corruption inside the most influential religious group in the country. Corruption thrive in the highest echelon of INC, ex-minister Isaias SamsonJr. said in Filipino as reported by print, radio and TV news outfits.Samson, former editor in chief of the INC's official publication Pasugo, said he was a personal witness to the corrupt practicessuch asirregular use of the church funds.

MANILA (PNA) -- The national government’s interest in probing the recent controversy involving members of Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) is limited to verifying whether a crime has indeed been committed, Malacañang said Saturday.Speaking over Radyo ng Bayan, Undersecretary Abigail Valte said both the Department of Justice and the Philippine National Police are already looking into the matter, amid reports that the INC is in possession of high-caliber guns, which it allegedly used to intimidate ministers who are critical of its current leadership.

COTABATO CITY - A man lost P76,000 cash to a robbery suspect who appeared to have knowledge thathe was carrying huge amount of cash.Johnny Suarez, 30, a resident of Poblacion 8,Midsayap, North Cotabato and works in an appliance store as collector, was driving his red Honda motorbike when flagged down by the suspect in a highway in Barangay Binoligan, Kidapawan City.The suspects gestured he knew Suarez so he pulled over as the man approached him at 7 a.m. Friday.

MAMASAPANO, Maguindanao (July 24)- A day before the6th month anniversary of the bloody Mamasapano carnage, tension has gripped the village of Tukanalipao after a rifle grenade fired from nowhere landed near a house Thursday night.Norodin Madsig, farmer and resident of Barangay Tukanalipao, said the rifle grenade landed and went off about 10 meters away from his house.Nobody was hurt but the incident sent jitters among Madsig family and his neighbors.Madsig recalled that he was fixing his motorbike at past 9 p.m. when a loud explosion occurred.

Allegations of massive corruption and other
irregularities rocked the country’s second largest religious group, the son of
its founding chair revealed in social media Friday.

Felix Nathaniel Angel” Manalo, one of the sons of
Iglesia ni Kristo (INC) executive minister Eraño, posted a video on Youtube.com
revealing that the most influential religious group has been
embroiled with massive financial anomalies since his elder brother Eddie” took
the helm in 2009.

COTABATO CITY - A retired jail guard was shot dead by still unidentified gunmen a remote village here Wednesday night.Police identified the victim as Mohammad Mamocao, 48, former jail officer of the Maguindanao provincial detention facility.Mamocao was about to close his variety store in Buaya-buaya, Barangay Kalanganan, Cotabato City at10 p.m. when three men arrived on a motorbike.Without provocation, the gunmen armed with cal.