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Malagos recently won four gold awards at the World Drinking Chocolate Competition 2020 under the category Plain/Origin Drinking Chocolate Dark (made with water).

Davao chocolate wins big in 1st virtual competition

The famous Malagos Chocolates of Davao continues to prove its dominance after it bagged top awards in the first-ever online international chocolate... Read more

Members of the Quezon City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office monitor the path of Typhoon Rolly from an emergency operations center yesterday as the tropical cyclone moves closer to the eastern portion of the country.

Powerful typhoon roars toward Philippines

Typhoon Rolly barreled toward the country yesterday, with weather forecasters warning that it could intensify into a super typhoon that will... Read more

The general community quarantine (GCQ) will remain in the National Capital Region, the provinces of Batangas and Lanao del Sur and in the cities of Iloilo, Bacolod, Tacloban and Iligan for the entire November.

It’s final: Metro Manila, 6 areas under GCQ in November

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Facing â��The Chiefsâ�� on Cignal TVâ��s OneNews, Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said the VCMs used in the 2016 and 2019 polls will see action again in the 2022 general elections.

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Comelec: VCMs to be used again in 2022 polls

Presidential spokesman Harry Roque Jr. yesterday said the new task force the creation of which was prescribed by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases would work on mechanisms for effective distribution of vaccines as well as orderly immunization activities.

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9 hours ago - Ombudsman Samuel Martires says he welcome President Rodrigo Duterte's latest order to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra to probe allegations...

11 hours ago - Akbayan party-list will hold a "bicycle action" on November 3 "coinciding with the Supreme Court's en banc session to deliberate on the petit...

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15 hours ago - Ten members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters surrendered to the Army in Sultan sa Barongis town Thursday. The BIFF, also known as the Dawlah Islamiya...

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Screen grab taken on Oct. 30, 2020, shows self-proclaimed former communist rebel Jeffrey Celiz, alias "Ka Eric,"who was presented to the public by the anti-communist task force.

Ex-activist comes out as NTF-ELCAC source

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PNP chief Gen. Camilo Cascolan directed the Internal Affairs Service and the Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (IMEG) to conduct the investigation to rid PNP ranks of scalawags.

PNP chief orders lifestyle check on police officers

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Engineer Carlo Arcilla, director of the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (DOST-PNRI), said construction of the building will begin soon with a funding of P50 million.

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In a Facebook post on his 50th birthday last Wednesday, the former speaker said he will remain a â��partner for changeâ�� of Duterte who brokered the takeover of Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco of the House leadership pursuant to the term-sharing agreement they forged at the outset of the 18th Congress last year.

Cayetano to remain Duterte ‘partner for change’

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Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri, who is also from Mindanao, said yesterday he had spoken to the overseas Filipino worker daughter, who said her mother is willing to execute an affidavit to the DFA on the abuses she allegedly suffered at the hands of the ambassador.

Abused OFW back home; ambassador returns November 2

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Zamboanga City players, from left, Troy Rike, Joshua Munzon, Alvin Pasaol and Santi Santillan celebrate their Chooks-to-Go 3x3 title run. With the winning team is event chief Eric Altamirano.

Munzon’s heroics make Zamboanga 3x3 king

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Phoenix Super LPG gunner Matthew Wright attacks a phalanx of Alaska defenders in their game Thursday where the Aces prevailed, 105-97. Wright is the leading scorer in the PBA bubble play.

Wright going no wrong

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Upon instruction from the Inter-Agency Task Force and Department of Health and aiming to protect the bubble, the PBA shelved the Philippine Cup hostilities at the AUF Sports Arena Powered by Smart 5G pending the issuance of new protocols.

PBA takes a pause, awaits release of new protocols

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Madam Auring is shown in a photo posted on Facebook yesterday by her grandson, Simon Pescon.

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