A non-government organization concerned with workplace safety said they are disappointed over the report of Pres. Benigno Simeon Aquino III regarding the Kentex slippers factory fire tragedy which claimed almost 80 lives.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said the P3.2 million collected from violators of the Expanded Anti-Smoking Ordinance or Ordinance No 0367-12 here will be used to support the cancer patients.
A total of 12,750 sets of school packs, consisting of notebooks, papers and pens, were distributed by the City Government of Tagum to the scholars of the local government and children belonging to the indigenous peoples and Muslim communities on Friday.
A political prisoner who is also a mother of a seven-month old baby wished she would be freed during her birthday on Sunday.
A lawmaker said over two million school-age children, or almost 10 percent between the ages of 5 and 15, will not be going to school as the new school year opens on Monday.