A fuel tanker carrying PHP1.5 million worth of bunker fuel was hijacked in Quezon Province early Wednesday while authorities captured one of the three suspects in the incident.   Quezon police provincial director Col. Joel Villanueva on Thursday identified the suspect as Vincent Reyes, 31. Two others, Phillip Magtanggol and a certain alias ‘Joli’, managed to escape.   Reyes was arrested after authorities tracked him through his mobile phone that was left inside the tanker.   Police officers recovered the tanker owned by 4M Transport & Sales Corporation with plate number NBM 5519 loaded with 10,000 liters of crude oil

The Court of Appeals (CA) affirmed its earlier ruling over the contested collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the management and the employees association of the APO Production Unit Inc. (APO).   In its resolution dated June 14, the appellate court denied for lack of merit the motion for reconsideration filed by the Asian Productivity Employees Association (APEA), an organization of the rank and file employees of APO, a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) first put up in 1974.   “These matters…were already previously propounded and…were in fact. point by point, extensively exposited in the decision,” the CA said as it

State-run Philippine Information Agency (PIA) is currently rectifying its audit discrepancy through the recommendation of the Commission on Audit (COA), an official of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) said Thursday.   PCOO Undersecretary and acting deputy presidential spokesperson Michel Kristian “Kris” Ablan made this assurance after the COA flagged the PIA over a PHP206.3 million discrepancy in the value of its property plant and equipment (PPE).   Ablan said the PIA has already responded to the COA, noting that the agency failed to reconcile the list of its PPE to the actual inventory.   “Mayroon po kasi tayong discrepancy