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BUTUAN CITY – The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) station in Surigao del Norte temporarily suspended sea travel on Monday due to the threat of Tropical Depression Kristine. The suspension, issued just after noon on Oct. 21, followed the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)’s announcement of Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 1 for Surigao del Norte, Dinagat Islands, and the Siargao and Bucas Grande islands. The order covers vessels traveling from mainland Surigao del Norte to Dinagat, Siargao, and Bucas Grande. As of 11 a.m. Monday, PAGASA reported that Tropical Depression Kristine was located 870 kilometers east of

A bloody encounter involving two armed groups in an island village in Parang, Maguindanao del Norte left seven gunmen dead, police and military authorities reported Saturday. Col. Christopher Panapan, chief investigator of the Police Regional Office in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said the armed encounter occurred in Bongo Island, off the coast of Parang town on Friday. ‘One of the armed groups belonged to Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) while the other was led by a certain Aragasi Tamano, a resident of Bongo Island,’ Panapan said in a report. Initial police information showed that several motorized bancas

MANILA: The Philippines has agreed to collaborate with the United States and Japan to enhance the nation’s cyber and digital resilience. The three nations held the US-Japan-Philippines Trilateral cyber and digital dialogue on the sidelines of the 9th Singapore International Cyber Week, according to a statement released by US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller on Friday. The trilateral dialogue was co-chaired by Information and Communications Technology Undersecretary for Infostructure Management, Cybersecurity, and Upskilling Jeffrey Ian Dy, US Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy Nathaniel Fick, and Japan’s Deputy Assistant Minister for Cyber Security and Information Technology Management Yukio

MANILA: Some areas in the country will experience rains due to the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), the weather bureau said Saturday. In its 4 a.m. bulletin, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said the ITCZ will bring cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms over the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Zamboanga Peninsula, Soccsksargen, Davao Occidental, and Palawan. The ITCZ will likewise bring partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms over the Visayas and the rest of Mindanao. PAGASA said flash floods or landslides are possible in these areas during moderate

BACOLOD CITY – Declared as the ‘largest building in the shape of a chicken’ by the Guinness World Records, the ‘Manok ni Cano Gwapo’ inside the Campuestohan Highland Resort in Barangay Cabatangan, Talisay City, Negros Occidental is the newest tourism icon in the province. The 115-foot hotel structure, which depicts a rooster, is a nod to the province’s multi-billion game fowl industry, with a number of fighting cock farms located near the resort. ‘Why I adopted the rooster design? My answer is very simple. Our fighting cock industry is second to sugar. When the sugar industry slumped and threatened our