Drug ring conspirator to serve 13 years.
Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard A 30-year-old man who used his auto repair business as a front for a family drug-trafficking operation was sentenced Tuesday to more than 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to selling four pounds of heroin and 9.4 ounces of methamphetamine to...

De Castro: Defer deportation of OFWs from Sabah.
De Castro wrote a letter to Razak and urged him to postpone the deportation, which starts on Aug. 1, so the government can prepare for the reintegration of thousands of Filipinos from Sabah. In his letter, De Castro said the deportation will be imposed on thousands of...

BI forms Zamboanga deportation task force.
In a statement issued yesterday, the BI said the creation of the task force was BI Commissioner Marcelino C. Libanan's response to Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat's calls asking for more immigration officers to process the Filipino deportees. Reports said that on average, 500 exiles are brought...

Resort owners talk about 'mystery man' in shabu lab case.
The owners volunteered the information after reading reports that one of the operators of the shabu laboratory is foreigner-looking. One of the resort owners, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the man checked- in at the resort from time to time, always wearing sunglasses, and had...

PRA now on stream to profitability.
With a little bit of luck, that figure could go to as much as P65 billion, she added. After assumption of office in the beginning of 2007 that the Authority has for the first time been in the red, the former Public Estates Authority is now enjoying...

Enforcement at work: the strategy of attrition is bearing fruit.
IS immigration enforcement effective? Ask the New York Times: "Children someday will study the Great Immigration Panic of the early 2000s, which harmed countless lives, wasted billions of dollars and mocked the nation's most deeply held values." An enforcement program that can move the Times to such a display...

Died.
Andrew C. Ross, senior lecturer in ecclesiastical history (1966-98) and dean of the Faculty of Divinity and principal (1978-84), New College, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, July 26, 2008, following diagnosis of a brain tumor. In addition to lecturing and writing, he also was associate director of the Centre for...

MTV Networks Grabs Multiple Imagen Awards.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-3 September 2008-MTV Networks Grabs Multiple Imagen Awards(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com MTV Networks (MTVN), a unit of Viacom, took home four Imagen Awards during a recent ceremony in Beverly Hills: -- "Best Television Actor:" Carlos Mencia, of Comedy Central's "Mind of Mencia" ...