BW FILE PHOTOA SENATOR on Tuesday said construction costs of the new Senate building in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City have ballooned to P31 billion from P8.6 billion, updating a previous estimate of P27 billion.“We’re going to put up a new

PHILSTAR FILE PHOTOTHE Philippines’ anti-graft court has acquitted ex-Zamboanga del Sur Governor Aurora E. Cerilles and nine other provincial officials accused of corruption for allegedly conspiring with a private entity to bag a procurement deal, citing lack of evidence against

JÖRG HUSEMANN DA PIXABAYCOTABATO CITY — The police had finally clamped down an elusive suspect in statutory rape cases in an operation in Barangay Titulok in Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat on Tuesday.Brig. Gen. James E. Gulmatico, director of the Police Regional

LOREN BISER-UNSPLASHCOTABATO CITY — A drug peddler who had eluded five entrapment was nabbed in an operation led by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-12 and the police in Barangay Perez in Kidapawan City on Wednesday.Aileen T. Lovitos, director of PDEA-12,

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. solicited potential investors in the Philippines’ chemical industry, particularly projects involving materials needed for the green transition. “One of the largest sub-sectors in our manufacturing industry is the chemicals industry,” he was quoted as saying at