Umra Kato accused of atrocities vs MILF
A renegade Moro rebel leader had committed atrocities against his former comrades in the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in an ongoing feud over land, an official of the MILF said Wednesday.
A renegade Moro rebel leader had committed atrocities against his former comrades in the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in an ongoing feud over land, an official of the MILF said Wednesday.
An eerie chill gripped Charlie Cudiamat the moment he came close to the remains. Instantly, the 26-year-old thought those were Ama’s—his 62-year-old grandfather, Alfredo Bucal. “We already went to see about 15 corpses but we never felt the same as we did (with this one),” Cudiamat said. His mother’s knees shook as the family’s hunch [...]
PALAYAN CITY—Residents of Nueva Ecija are concocting a potion that could be sweet but deadly to mosquitoes in the continuing search for cures and preventive measures against the fatal disease dengue fever. Dr. Benjamin Lopez, the province’s health officer, said he has disseminated the formula for the antimosquito potion to residents who have had encounters [...]
Organizers claimed success in a transport strike in provinces close to Metro Manila that was launched to protest continuing increases in oil prices and which, strike leaders said, was a preview of bigger protest actions. Transport groups under the Piston (Pagkakaisa ng mga Tsuper at Operators Nationwide) said public transportation routes in many parts of [...]
Some two million children in Metro Manila can’t be bothered about putting “go, grow and glow” food in their diet since their foremost concern is how to find breakfast, lunch or dinner, Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo said. According to Robredo, these children (out of about 12 million people in the metropolis) are “systematically deprived [...]
What started out as a simple domestic spat morphed into a father taking his own children hostage in Tondo, Manila, on Tuesday evening. After an argument with his wife, Danilo Roncales, 45, barricaded himself in his house on Sto. Niño Street with his four children. He then armed himself with three kinds of bladed weapons, [...]
Militant transport groups led by the Pinagkaisang Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (Piston) held a protest caravan Wednesday against the so-called “Big 3” oil companies’ alleged overpricing of petroleum products. From Quezon City, some 100 demonstrators in around 20 vans and passenger jeepneys trooped to Pilipinas Shell’s main office in Makati City at around [...]
Around two million people joined the funeral march for former Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. on Aug. 31, 1983. The 30-kilometer funeral march from Sto. Domingo Church in Quezon City to Manila Memorial Park in Parañaque, which lasted 11 hours, is said to be one of the longest funeral marches in the world’s history.—Schatzi Quodala, [...]
A policeman and a criminology student were arrested recently for selling stolen motorcycles in an entrapment operation. The duo’s modus operandi involved buying and selling stolen bikes. Their market? Mostly policemen who want to own cheap motorcycles. How do the cops who buy the stolen motorcycles get a license for the bikes? They don’t. They [...]
A moderate earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale rocked Taiwan’s south east coast on Wednesday, officials said, as the region grapples with the island’s worst flooding in recent years.
The city council declared Baguio under a state of calamity during a special session on Wednesday, following almost two hours of debates over who was to blame for the August 27 collapse of a section of a decommissioned dump in Barangay (village) Irisan here.
The city of Manila failed to follow a basic power-saving rule last year: turn off the lights when they are not needed.
An alleged notorious drug pusher from Iloilo was arrested over the weekend in Pasay City, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) Police Director Samuel Pagdilao Jr. said Wednesday.
