The Alejandro Lanaja Command-Front 3 Operations Command of the New People's Army is holding under its custody Army detachment commander Sgt. Raul Reyes, along with paramilitary Civilian Action Auxiliary members Glorieto Mahumas, and Rudy Villaflor. The three were arrested during the October 7 NPA tactical offensive that successfully raided the 72nd Infantry Battalion-AFP detachment in Canidkid, Montevista in Compostela Valley Province.
Davao Teen Center, with the Ma-a National High School Supreme Student Government, celebrates the month of October as Children’s Month despite of the increase of children’s rights violation in the city, particularly the issue of Summary Execution and lacking of reproductive health services to children.
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The Mindanao Science and Technology Centrum Foundation, Inc. (MSTCFI), a non-stock, non-profit science foundation accredited by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), will hold a scientific forum with the theme, ?The Exciting Possibilities of Robotics? on October 19, 2007, Friday, at the conference hall of the University of the Philippines in Mindanao downtown campus, Terraza Melisa Bldg., Anda St., Davao City. The guest speaker to expound on the theme is Dr. Randy Gamboa, professor and faculty member of the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP). MSTCFI extends invitation to the scientific community, industry, business and the academe to attend this very timely and informative forum on the various applications of this new and fast developing technology.
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The Patriotic Officers Union ? Southeastern Mindanao section, a clandestine organization of progressive bloc within the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), is denouncing the statements of Major Medel Aguilar of the 10th Infantry Division blaming the protesting workers of Davao Integrated Transport Facilities, Inc. (DITFI) for the company's "closure".
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo got one of the biggest investments worth $1.6-billion for the establishment of the first large steel mill in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte.
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