MANILA: President Benigno Aquino III has declared October 15 a regular holiday nationwide in observance of Eid Al Adha or the Feast of Sacrifice among Muslims.
Deputy President Spokesperson Abigail Valte said Aquino signed on Thursday Proclamation Number 658 declaring the holiday.
The Republic Act 9849, which was signed in 2009, includes Eid Al Adha among the country’s regular holidays because of the significance of the day for the Muslims.
Suspected drug dealer nabbed
MANILA: Anti-narcotics agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested a suspected drug dealer, tagged as Top 12 regional priority target-listed drug personality, during a buy-bust operation in Nueva Ecija.
PDEA director general Arturo Cacdac Jr said yesterday that the suspect identified as Adrian Quinagon, 36, of Carangalan, Nueva Ecija, is the Number 12 regional priority target-listed drug personality of PDEA Regional Office 3.
Cacdac said Quinagon was arrested in a buy-bust operation at Purok 7, Ilano Subdivision, Barangay H Concepcion, Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija last October 1.
Leatherback turtle treated
LEGAZPI CITY: Two and a half months after a giant leatherback turtle laid eggs along the shoreline of Albay Gulf here, another similar species was treated of its wounds and then released into the sea on Tuesday in Balatan, Camarines Sur, according to a regional official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Ruby Mendones however, said the leatherback turtle that was wounded when it got entangled into a fishing gear called “barangayan” in Camarines Sur could not be the same turtle that laid at least 105 eggs in Barangay Rawis in this city on July 14.
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