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By LALA ORDENES LIKE most Filipinos, Cel loves to sing. When her father died when she was in third year high school, she thought of capitalizing on her beautiful singing voice to help support her family.

N0 one would think that 17-year-old Ariel Bowagan was a child offender before he became the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK)chairman of Barangay Dontogan in Baguio City.

By KHRYSTA IMPERIAL RARA
ASPINS, the Philippine native dogs, are finally making history. Two aspins have graduated with 25 other purebred dogs from the Philippine Coast Guard’s (PCG) K9 school and will be joining the roster of security dogs guarding the country’s ports against smuggled narcotics and bombs. They proudly trooped to the stage with their handlers to receive their diplomas during a ceremony honouring them at the PCG base camp in Taguig last week.

By HOMER TEODORO
TARLAC CITY—Six years after, the murder case of Hacienda Luisita labor leader Ricardo Ramos is expected to soon come to a close. The regional trial court here is scheduled to hand down on Nov. 16, 2011 its decision on the charge against Sgt. Roderick “Joshua” de la Cruz of the Army’s 7th Infantry Division.

THE Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the petition of eight of the country's largest banks for a temporary restraining order on the Bureau of Internal Revenue ruling imposing a 20 percent final withholding tax on the controversial 10-year Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificates (PEACe) bonds.

By Interaksyon.com
EIGHT banks on Monday asked the Supreme Court to stop the government from imposing a 20-percent final withholding tax on P35 billion worth of the controversial Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificates (PEACe) government bonds, which will mature on Tuesday, October 18. (Read the full report here)

THE Bureau of Internal Revenue modified on Monday its Oct. 7 ruling to include “all subsequent holders” of the PEACe Bonds, in addition to the original buyer, the Caucus of Development NGO Networks (Code-NGO), as liable to pay the 20 percent final withholding tax on the bonds that mature Tuesday.

WHILE countless Filipinos still believe in the American dream, the big names in local entrepreneurship have proven that dreams can come true even here at home.

By LUZ RIMBAN and YVONNE T. CHUA
THE BUREAU of Internal Revenue has found the Caucus of Development NGO Networks (Code-NGO) liable to pay close to P5 billion in taxes for its purchase of the so-called PEACe Bonds 10 years ago.

By LALA ORDENES Photos by Mario Ignacio THEY didn’t have the tsunami walk of Miss Universe third runner-up Shamcey Supsup.Their legs were not as long, their bodies not as lean.

ARE things better now for local governments 20 years after the Local Government Code, or Republic Act 7160, was signed into law on October 10, 1991?

By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
ARISTON Dawang Jr does not take the strings of floods brought about by typhoons sitting down.