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Fireworks sales slump in 2015

By Ramon Efren Lazaro | December 31, 2015 - 9:00am

The sale of firecrackers and other fireworkslumped this year as the Philippine Pyrotechnics Manufacturers and Dealers Association...

Headlines

BFP inspects fireworks stores in Bulacan

By Ramon Efren Lazaro | December 17, 2015 - 9:00am

To ensure safe and joyous revelry this season, Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) Director Ariel Barayuga personally led yesterday the inspection of fireworks stores here.

Headlines

Fireworks industry fights for survival

By Ramon Lazaro | January 1, 2015 - 12:00am

With all the warnings against using firecrackers and other pyrotechnic devices during the New Year’s Eve revelry, fireworks...

Headlines

Gov't officials remind public on safe New Year festivities

December 31, 2006 - 12:00am

With year 2007 just hours away, government officials have issued final reminders to the public about toxic noise-making devices, garbage, and pollution-causing pyrotechnics that have been the concerns every New...

Cebu News

Bulacan crackermakers alarmed over imported fireworks

By James Mananghaya | November 15, 2005 - 12:00am

MALOLOS CITY — Local pyrotechnics industry players yesterday expressed fears that the industry, one of the major businesses in the province of Bulacan, might suffer huge losses due to the unabated influx of...

Nation