BATAM, Riau Islands, May 27 (PNA/Antara) -- The Fifth ASEAN Jazz Festival, to be held in Batam, June 22 and 23, 2012, is expected to attract about 500 tourists, particularly from Malaysia and Singapore.

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The Aquino administration announced that the number of the country's banana exports that have been allowed by the Chinese quarantine officials to enter the People's Republic of China (PROC) has increased to 170 containers, an indication that Philippine products are not contaminated with pests.

President Benigno S. Aquino III spearheaded on Thursday the 2012 Brigada Eskwela of the Department of Education and its partners in Quiapo, Manila highlighting the importance of volunteerism to national progress.

CABANATUAN CITY, May 27 (PNA) - Two suspected motorcycle thieves, including a 16-year-old boy, were killed in a shootout with police operatives in the urban village of Aduas Centro here before dawn on Saturday.

XICHANG, May 27 (PNA/Xinhua) -- China successfully sent a telecommunication satellite, "ChinaSat 2A," into orbit on Saturday evening, using a Long March-3B carrier rocket launched from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

CAMP JUAN, Ilocos Norte, May 27 (PNA) -- The Laoag City police are investigating the disappearance of a yacht that was earlier found stranded along the shoreline in Metro Gabu, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, May 26 (PNA) – The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is strengthening its revenue generation campaign to boost its tax collection in this southern port city.

A lawmaker expressed alarm on Sunday over estimates that up to 50 percent of the country’s backyard hog producers will be forced to close shop if rampant pork smuggling continues unabated.

This, as Cagayan Rep. Jack Enrile challenged the Bureau of Customs (BoC) to produce concrete results in its campaign against illegal and excessive importation of meat products into the country.

MAMUJU, Head of One Door Integrated Service (PTSP) and the Electronic Information Service and Investment Licensing (SIPISE) of the West Sulawesi Capital Investment Coordinating Agency (BKPMD) Ir.Surung Katta said that investments had been increasing with 38 foreign businessmen investing in West Sulawesi.

The tourism industry is expected to get a huge shot in the arm from the Las Vegas-style gaming resort being developed at the Entertainment City of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor).

"Integrated resort and gaming projects are powerful drivers of tourism revenue growth, as may be gleaned from Singapore’s recent experience," said Cebu Rep. Eduardo Gullas.

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The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is setting up training interventions to turn ripe bananas, which failed to reach the China’s market due to stricter quarantine measures, into agricultural feeds.

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