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==Featured News of The Philippines==
==Featured News of The Philippines==
Updated: November 12, 2021
Updated: November 13, 2021


'''Fake vax card maker arrested in Basilan'''.<br>
'''Ex-ASG member ventures into buy-sell biz'''.<br>
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police authorities have arrested in an entrapment operation a printing shop owner allegedly reproducing counterfeit vaccination cards in Isabela City in Basilan, a top police official said Friday. Lt. Col. Julpikar Sitin, Isabela City police chief, identified the arrested suspect as Ahamad Jamal Astian, 37, a resident of Barangay Tabuk, Isabela City. Sitin said that Astian was arrested around 7 p.m. Thursday in an entrapment operation in his shop in Barangay Tabuk. “He (Astian) is now detained at our headquarters and formal charges will be filed against him,” Sitin said.<br>
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A former member of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) has ventured into business as he strives to start a new life in mainstream society. Bensar Majan (alias Bunso), 29, one of five ASG members who surrendered Thursday to the 1102nd Infantry Brigade at Camp Bud Datu, Barangay Tagbak, Indanan, Sulu, has started a rice business. Romil Paraja, Yasher Jamalul, Jimrasil Isnaji, and Roger Kahan also surrendered to the Philippine Army. “I am preoccupied with my livelihood,” Majan said in a statement Saturday. Majan actually started the business three months ago after he was temporarily released from detention when his mother bailed him out. He was arrested sometime in 2017 after his group disbanded following the death of their leaders.<br>
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'''Angara says no to NTF-ELCAC abolition'''<br>
'''Negros Oriental’s first on-site vax for private firm held at BPO'''<br>
MANILA Despite proposals to slash its budget for 2022, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has accomplished its mandate in implementing grassroots projects and helping stamp out insurgency in the countryside. Abolishing the NTF-ELCAC is uncalled for at the moment, according to Senator Sonny Angara on Friday. Vice President Leni Robredo is among the most vocal critics of the task force tasked to “provide an efficient mechanism and structure for the implementation of the whole-of-nation approach to aid in the realization of collective aspirations for inclusive and sustainable peace”.
DUMAGUETE CITY A total of 227 call center agents and other employees of a business process outsourcing (BPO) company here received the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine on Saturday, the first on-site inoculation rollout of a private firm in Negros Oriental. Joslyn Canon, community relations director of Qualfon Philippines, Inc. - Dumaguete, told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) it would be a series of on-site vaccination activitie for their employees following an arrangement with the Provincial Health Office (PHO). Qualfon, which has 3,500 employees, will have twice-a-month on-site vaccination to fall on a Saturday, Canon added..


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