Human rights group Karapatan wrote the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (UN SPT) to visit and look into the conditions of a breastfeeding mother detained at the Taguig City Jail.
Students of the University of the Philippines Mindanao were chosen as finalists in Philippine Association of National Advertisers (PANA) awards.
Davao Light and Power Company started implementing a maximum of one-hour rotating power interruptions Monday (May 11) after the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) imposed a load curtailment due to about 200MW deficiency in the entire Mindanao grid.
A seven-year old child drowned in a 4-feet deep pool in Sto. Tomas, Davao del Norte.
A labor group said fewer Filipino families experienced involuntary hunger in the last quarter because of the proliferation of “pagpag” (food from scraps) and not because of the Aquino administration.