Fighting erupts between MNLF, MILF fighters in North Cotabato
By Karlos Manlupig
Fighting between members of the Moro National Liberation Front and Moro Islamic Liberation Front broke out in Matalam, North Cotabato, on Thursday.
Fighting between members of the Moro National Liberation Front and Moro Islamic Liberation Front broke out in Matalam, North Cotabato, on Thursday.
Out of the 11 towns in the province of Davao Oriental, five failed to transmit election results for canvassing.
For survivors of Typhoon “Pablo,” election also means payback time. In Poo, an islet off the coast of Barangay (village) Kinablangan here, residents said they would not vote for candidates and politicians who are involved in logging and mining activities.
Glitches marred the final testing and sealing of several precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines in Negros Oriental and Davao City.
Three Marines were wounded during a firefight with communist rebels in Gingoog City Saturday morning, a military official said.
At least a thousand persons barricaded Paylon Street here Tuesday morning, demanding the release of rice they accused Davao Oriental Gov. Corazon Malanyaon of hoarding.
More than 70 health workers, social workers, nuns, journalists and environmentalists have accused government soldiers of sabotaging their transportation, which had forced them to spend the night in a hinterland village in Baganga, Davao Oriental.
At least 58 health advocates, who participated in a run here Wednesday morning, condemned the bomb attacks at the Boston marathon on Monday that left three people killed, including an 8-year-old boy, and over 170 others injured.
People living in areas devastated by Typhoon “Pablo” in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental will be casting their votes inside huge tents used as temporary learning spaces instead of classrooms, according to the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM) has assured election candidates that it is safe to campaign in rebel territories.
As the tension between Malaysian authorities and armed followers of the Sultanate of Sulu holed up in Sabah continues, goods coming to and from Malaysia have been constricted, forcing traders here to jack up their prices.
A leader of Barug Katawhan, which led the occupation of the regional office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development here last week, was shot and killed in Baganga, Davao Oriental on Monday evening.
A three-day protest “occupation” outside the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) regional office in Davao City might have ended on a reconciliatory note on Wednesday night, but Secretary Corazon Soliman is haling the agitators and looters to court.
