After two weeks of delayed school opening and almost six months of protests over allegations of graft and corruption, classes at the state-run University of Southern Mindanao finally kicked off on Monday.
A militiaman was rushed to a hospital here near midnight Tuesday after a colleague fired at him with a shotgun for taking away leftover rice gruel and giving it to a detainee without the former’s permission, the authorities said.
The National Democratic Front (NDF)-Southern Mindanao said Arakan Valley town policeman Police Officer 3 Maula Ali will be freed today (Wednesday) in an undisclosed area in the province.
Ten drowned while two remained missing as of Tuesday, when the passenger boat they were riding in capsized on the turbulent Liguasan River passing through Pagalungan and Sultan sa Barongis towns in Maguindanao on Monday afternoon, a town official said.
Three men were killed after they were fired upon by unidentified men as they traveled along the national highway in Mlang, North Cotabato early Saturday, police said.
Three communist rebels were killed while three soldiers were injured in a clash in Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, a report reaching the military’s Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) based here, said.
The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has announced the suspension of classes in all levels in Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao on Tuesday as Typhoon “Pablo” hit land.
Two improvised landmines planted along national highway in the village of Marbel here were recovered by authorities around 7:45 a.m. Tuesday.
The tourism officer of this city was shot dead by one of two motorcycle-riding assailants on Tuesday morning, Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco said.
Three farmers were taken hostage by a group of armed men who stormed a village in Tulunan, North Cotabato, on Tuesday morning, a police field report reaching the provincial police office here said.
Nature parted the curtains to reveal one of its long held secrets here in a process that took decades and one of the country’s fiercest storms to complete.
Typhoon Frank had brought so much devastation when it hit the country in 2008, but for the people of this sleepy town, they had something to thank the typhoon for.
Officials of Kidapawan City are pressing the Philippine National Oil Company’s Energy Development Corp. (PNOC-EDC) to abide by a Department of Energy ruling that says hosts of power-generation facilities must be given preferential treatment in the allocation of electricity whenever there is a power crisis.
