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Noynoy holds wide margin in latest Pulse Asia survey

BY ROMMEL C. LONTAYAO Reporter, The Manila Times

Less than five months before the elections, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino 3rd continued to lead other presidential candidates by a sizeable margin, pollster Pulse Asia reported Tuesday.

Aquino of the Liberal Party was favored by 45 percent of the...

Bus coop holds strike versus Hanjin

Some 50 bus operators, drivers and conductor, transporting workers to and from Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Phils. Inc., held a transport strike Saturday to denounce what they call unfair practice of the Korean ship building giant.

The Zambales Operators Drivers Cooperative Association (Zamodca) said that...

SBMA to close down Kalaklan bridge in Feb

The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority reported Thursday that it will be starting the construction of a new bridge to replace the old Kalaklan bridge which was built by the Americans in 1960’s.

The Kalaklan bridge will be close down to all vehicular traffic on February 15...

2M devotees join procession for Black Nazarene

Hundreds of thousands of people prayed for relief from natural disasters Saturday in a barefoot religious procession across the capital of the mainly Roman Catholic Philippines. The annual festival centers on a black icon of a cross-bearing Jesus Christ, which many Filipinos believe can perform...

Residents ignore ban, celebrates New Year with a Bang

Despite an ordinance banning firecrackers in the city, residents of the city opted to ignore the city ordinance and celebrate the New Year with a bang.

The ban covers manufacture, sale distribution, possession and use of firecrackers or pyrotechnic device within the territorial jurisdiction of Olongapo...

P260M worth of goods lost in Iba fire

Iba, Zambales: An estimated P260 million in properties and merchandise was lost due to fire that hit this towns public market, Tuesday evening.

According to reports the fire started around 9pm and in just 15 minutes the whole market was ablaze.

The Iba fire department who first...

SubicTimes record 1 million hits in 4 months

SubicTimes the first and only independent news website in the Subic Bay area recently broke the 1 million hit mark, making its present felt in the online community in just 4 months.

“The website went online around mid-July this year, it was actually July 16, our...

Filipina model is Int’l animal rights’ group Person of the Year

Filipina model Isabel Roces is named Asia’s “Person of the Year” by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), a global animal rights organization.

PETA said Roces, a vegetarian since elementary school is a granddaughter of wealthy publisher Don Joaquin “Chino” Roces. She was...

Magsaysay’s gives nod for Ebdane’s gubernatorial bid

SUBIC BAY Freeport: Local politics took a turn around Monday after the Magsaysay clan including majority of the mayors in the province of Zambales pledge their support for former Public Works Secretary Hermohenes Ebdane, who after begging of from the presidential race opted to run...

Ayala Land to re-develop famous Magsaysay strip

Subic Bay Freeport: The Subic Bay Metropolitan on Friday announced that it had signed a deal with Ayala Land, Inc (ALI) in an effort to push developments beyond  the secured area of Subic.

The plan according to SBMA Administrator Armand Arezza  is to draw a master...

Subic media condemn ‘monsters of Maguindanao massacre’

Subic Bay Freeport: Members of the Olongapo City-Subic Bay chapter of the Union of Journalists of the Philippines (UJP-OS) yesterday set lighted candles adrift on Subic Bay as a symbolic petition for justice for media colleagues slain in the infamous Maguindanao massacre last month.

Calling for...

1 ½ kilo of Marijuana confiscated by police

Olongapo City: Authrothies here arrestedtwo suspect drug pusher and confiscated one and a half kilo of brick marijuana in barangay New Cabalan Tuesday.

(Photo Caption: PO1 Sherwin Tan (left) points  to suspected drug dealer Anthony Alonzo and Narciso Bautista after being arrested in a...

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