Congress bet’s aide shot dead in Binangonan
A man reportedly serving as bodyguard of a congressional candidate in Rizal province was shot by motorcycle-riding assailants Wednesday morning in front of a courthouse in Binangonan town, the police said.
1 rebel, 1 candidate in Quezon town slain in clash
Two people were killed in a clash between government forces and a lone communist insurgent in Padre Burgos, a police report said Wednesday.
Over 5,000 ballot boxes delivered
The Commission on Elections on Wednesday received 5,012 plastic ballot boxes, the first batch of the 76,000 plastic ballot boxes to be used for the May 10 polls, an official said.
46 died, 6,190 fell ill with dengue in January, February — report
Dengue cases went up to 6,236 cases in the first two months of 2010, an 11 percent-increase over last year’s figures (5,616) in the same period, the National Epidemiology Center (NEC) of the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday.
Haitians get food ’surge’
Aid groups in Haiti’s shattered capital Port-au-Prince began handing out heavy bags of rice to thousands of post-quake homeless on the first day of a food “surge” designed to feed 1.9 million people for a month.