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Photo from the PCG shows five Filipino fishermen getting assistance after their boat was reportedly hit by the Chinaflagged bulk carrier MV Tai Hang 8 in the waters near Paluan, Occidental Mindoro on Dec. 5.

China-flagged carrier hits Philippines fishing boat

By Evelyn Macairan

The Philippine Coast Guard would be “very serious” in investigating a China-flagged bulk carrier that reportedly hit a Philippine fishing boat at daytime last Dec. 5 in Occidental Mindoro, PCG Commandant Ronnie Gil Gavan said yesterday.

The final version of the P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024 is expected to be released by senators and congressmen comprising the bicameral conference committee on Dec. 11, Romualdez told The STAR at the yearend gathering of the Cornell Club of the Philippines.

Priority bills passed by House before Yule break

By Delon Porcalla

dmiral Ronnie Gil Gavan, PCG commandant, said they are communicating with the group about its Dec. 10 departure from El Nido in Palawan, although the latter still has not provided information on the exact number of boats to be used and the people who would be joining the caravan.

PCG to WPS caravan: Don’t bring children, elderly

By Evelyn Macairan

Marina chief submits resignation

By Evelyn Macairan

Another accused in Percy Lapid slay gets 8 years

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La Salle's Nelle not expecting to nail perfect ending to college career

La Salle's Nelle not expecting to nail perfect ending to college career

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Heartbreaking finals loss should fuel Maroons, says coach

Heartbreaking finals loss should fuel Maroons, says coach

By Ralph Edwin Villanueva | 1 day ago

A painful loss in the UAAP Season 86 finals should be a motivation for the UP Fighting Maroons next season, head coach Goldwin...

Now-champion coach Topex bares self-doubt after Archers lopsidedly lost Game 1

Now-champion coach Topex bares self-doubt after Archers lopsidedly lost Game 1

By Luisa Morales | 1 day ago

La Salle head coach Topex Robinson joined an elite company on Wednesday, as he now counts himself among the first-year coaches...

Outgoing Maroons Cansino, Diouf upbeat on UP future

Outgoing Maroons Cansino, Diouf upbeat on UP future

By Ralph Edwin Villanueva | 1 day ago

Despite their heartbreaking loss in the UAAP Season 86 finals, the UP Fighting Maroons will be fine in succeeding tournaments,...

Tigresses champs again after 17 years

Tigresses champs again after 17 years

By John Bryan Ulanday | 1 day ago

There’s a new ruler in the UAAP basketball queendom.

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â��In the last two years, 70,000 people were incarcerated and charged with drug offenses. Because of this, we are calling on stakeholders to review the drug law,â�� Justice Undersecretary Jesse Hermogenes Andres said in an interview during the National Jail Decongestion Summit on Wednesday.

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Anjo Sardoma and Joland Cabotaje were tagged as persons of interest in separate Skyway robberies on March 12 and Jan. 5, respectively.

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Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista and Philippine Coast Guard chief Ronnie Gil Gavan (left) inspect the firearms and other assets used by PCG personnel patrolling ports, at the PCG headquarters in Manila yesterday.

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Military personnel stand guard at the entrance of a gymnasium while police investigators look for evidence after a bomb attack at Mindanao State University in Marawi, Lanao del sur province on December 3, 2023. At least three people were killed and seven wounded in a bomb attack on a Catholic mass in the insurgency-plagued southern Philippines on December 3, officials said.

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Philippine police named two Filipino members of a pro-Islamic State militant group on Wednesday as suspects in the deadly bombing of a Catholic mass in the country's insurgency-plagued south.

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Lanao Del Sur Governor Mamintal Adiong Jr. looks on as law enforcement officers investigate the scene of an explosion that occurred during a Catholic Mass in a gymnasium at Mindanao State University in Marawi, Philippines, December 3, 2023.

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Armed Forces chief Gen. Romeo Brawner and top military and police officials in Western Mindanao brief the media yesterday at the headquarters of the 103rd Infantry Brigade in Marawi City.

AFP validating IS hand in MSU bomb attack

The Armed Forces of the Philippines – in coordination with the Philippine National Police – is validating claims by the Middle East-based Islamic State that it was behind the explosion that killed four people and injured 45 others attending mass on Sunday in the gymnasium of the Mindanao State University in Marawi City, Lanao del Norte.

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This photograph taken on December 3, 2023 shows flowers where a tourist was stabbed to death on the eve, near the Eiffel Tower (background), in Paris. A person known to the French authorities as a radical Islamist with mental health troubles stabbed a German-Filipino tourist to death and wounded two people in central Paris on December 2, 2023 before being arrested, officials said.

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