PHOTO BY MIKE GONZALEZTHE Philippine Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to pay a construction firm more than P5 million plus interest for rehabilitation work on the Abacan Project that was damaged by

PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCASTHE Commission on Audit (CoA) has flagged the provincial government of Agusan del Norte for failing to reclassify close to half-a-billion pesos worth of construction projects to its property accounts, resulting in misstatements that casts doubt on

COTABATO CITY — A bomber lobbed a fragmentation grenade at one side of a roadside police detachment in Barangay Sunrise in Isabela City in Basilan late Sunday, hurting a policeman and causing tension among villagers in houses around.In a report

REUTERSBy Revin Mikhael D. Ochave, ReporterPHILIPPINE STOCKS closed lower on Monday as investors booked gains after a four-week rally.The bellwether Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) fell by 2.09% or 155.65 points to 7,272.65. The broader all-share index lost 1.3% or

BW FILE PHOTOTHE PHILIPPINE PESO rose against the dollar on Monday, tracking the greenback’s broad weakness after US personal consumption expenditures for August came out cooler than expected.It closed at P56.03 a dollar, 4.7 centavos stronger than its P56.077 close