Reuse gift wrappers, trimmings
By DJ Yap
Now that your Christmas presents have been unwrapped, don’t just throw away the wrappers and trimmings.

Now that your Christmas presents have been unwrapped, don’t just throw away the wrappers and trimmings.
Hidden wonders may yet lurk in these caves. More than 150 natural caves across the Philippines have been placed under varying degrees of protection from treasure hunters, polluters and vandals, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said on Friday.

Her fiery spirit continues to stoke the passions of her fellow earth defenders. And so it is that three years after her death, Odette Alcantara is still called upon to be the champion of the trees.

For a lot of Filipinos, dogs are food, not friends. The illegal dog meat trade continues to thrive in the Philippines with nearly 300,000 canines butchered each year, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the Philippine National Police said Tuesday on the heels of an operation against dog meat traders in Pangasinan.

More than half of all personnel in the headquarters of the Philippine National Police are overweight, while almost one in 10 is obese, records at the organization’s Health Service showed.