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Supplier suspected in chicken smuggling probed
by Rey Arquiza - February 3, 2004 - 12:00am
The ongoing investigation into the smuggling of a P50-million shipment of frozen chicken in the wake of the bird flu outbreak in Asia was expanded yesterday to include a Texas-based American supplier. At the same...
The law allows BOC to sell seized goods — Bernardo
by Rey Arquiza - August 9, 2003 - 12:00am
The Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines (TCCP) allows the Bureau of Customs to sell seized contraband goods under certain conditions, Customs Commissioner Antonio Bernardo said yesterday. Bernardo said these...
BOC strike force nets 30 cars
by Rey Arquiza - August 6, 2003 - 12:00am
Agents of the Bureau of Customs seized yesterday 30 smuggled cars as they were about to be unloaded at the Port of Manila. Customs Commissioner Antonio Bernardo has issued warrants of seizure and detention on the...
Visiting US official: Saddam ouster not enough
by Rey Arquiza - January 10, 2003 - 12:00am
Exiling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is not enough to avert war between Iraq and the United States, US Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton said yesterday. "The centerpiece...
Nomad planes grounded
by Rey Arquiza - December 19, 2002 - 12:00am
Philippine Air Force (PAF) chief Lt. Gen. Nestor Santillan ordered yesterday the grounding of all N-22 Nomad planes following Monday’s crash of a PAF light transport plane of its type some 100 meters from the...
3 killed in another PAF trainer plane crash
by Rey Arquiza - December 13, 2002 - 12:00am
Two Air Force pilots and a civilian worker on the ground were killed when an Italian-made SF-260 trainer plane crashed into the roof of a computer parts factory in Sto. Tomas, Batangas yesterday morning. Initial...
Gordon backs new airport terminal’s opening next month
by Rey Arquiza - November 7, 2002 - 12:00am
Despite mounting pressure on the government to scrap the Philippine International Air Terminals Co. (Piatco) contract, Tourism Secretary Richard Gordon is batting for the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal...
No whitewash in Dante Ang’s case, NBI assures public
by Rey Arquiza - October 24, 2002 - 12:00am
There will be no whitewash in the case of presidential publicist and businessman Dante Ang, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) assured the people yesterday. "We will investigate the case based on the...
Revilla returns; Senate back to ‘square one’
by Rey Arquiza - June 21, 2002 - 12:00am
The return to the country yesterday of ailing Sen. Ramon Revilla has brought the Senate’s political configuration "back to square one," or its state before the June 3 failed opposition coup, Senate...
17 Pinoys trained at Osama camp
by Rey Arquiza - March 26, 2002 - 12:00am
Seventeen Filipino Muslims arrived home Sunday after reportedly undergoing four months of military training in Saudi Arabia under the aegis of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Upon disembarking from a Saudia plane...
5 killed in S-211 crash in Nueva Ecija
by Rey Arquiza - January 15, 2002 - 12:00am
CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — A Philippine Air Force (PAF) S-211 trainer jet crashed into a row of houses in Cabanatuan City yesterday, killing the two pilots and three people on the ground and injuring a still undetermined...
BI: Foreigners in RP not in terrorists’ list
by Rey Arquiza - October 12, 2001 - 12:00am
CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — The 4,500 long-time residents and newly arrived foreigners in the country are not in the list of 180 suspected terrorists who are wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),...
US alert: Terrorists may seek sanctuary in RP
by Rey Arquiza - September 21, 2001 - 12:00am
The US government alerted Philippine authorities yesterday that terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 attacks in Washington, DC and New York might flee to the country and seek refuge among their cohorts. The US Federal...
Prime suspects in Dacer murder flee to US
by Rey Arquiza - August 3, 2001 - 12:00am
The brains behind the Dacer-Corbito kidnap-murder case may never be known at all after police Senior Superintendents Michael Ray Aquino and Cesar Mancao — two of the prime suspects — were able to flee the...
Davao police arrest plane thief
by Rey Arquiza - July 18, 2001 - 12:00am
DAVAO CITY – Police arrested late Monday afternoon in Sto. Tomas, Davao del Norte the pilot who went missing after allegedly stealing a light aircraft to demand the release of his separation pay. According...
Estrada pal’s firm asked to pay P111 M in cigarette taxes
by Rey Arquiza - February 6, 2001 - 12:00am
Customs authorities are demanding P111.1 million in taxes from a company linked to an associate of ousted President Joseph Estrada for allegedly smuggling Winston and Marlboro cigarettes through the Subic Bay Metropolitan...
Customs: No more cronies
by Rey Arquiza - January 30, 2001 - 12:00am
No more cronies. With this vow, new Customs Commissioner Titus Villanueva is crossing his fingers that his agency will finally slow down, if not stamp out, the smuggling that ran rampant during the Estrada administration. In...
Choppers on standby at Villamor
by Rey Arquiza - January 20, 2001 - 12:00am
Two Air Force bases were placed on high alert late yesterday afternoon as top military officials awaited confirmation of reports that President Estrada would be flown to an unannounced destination by a US air force...
Laarni evades subpoena;‘aide’ collared with P6 M
by Rey Arquiza - January 12, 2001 - 12:00am
Presidential mistress Laarni Enriquez left for Hong Kong yesterday morning after evading officers of the Senate sergeant-at-arms who were trying to serve her a subpoena to appear in President Estrada’s...
Estrada: Everything is under control
by Rey Arquiza - November 24, 2000 - 12:00am
President Estrada left for Singapore yesterday to attend a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), getting a respite from the jueteng scandal still raging in Manila. In a brief speech before...
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