Davao floods force 37,000 to evacuate

By ACE R. MORANDANTE, JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA & MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today The continuous light to moderate rains yesterday caused the alarming rise of water levels in the city.   “It’s just too many water in the river,” said Emmanuel Jaldon, chief of the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council and Central 911 in an afternoon press briefing, January 20.

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NPA captures police and soldier in Laak; AFP in hot pursuit

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesman of the NPA’s Merardo Arce Command-Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command, said operatives of the NPA’s Guerilla Front 34 Operations Command arrested Pfc. Jesrel Colanggo (Jezreel Culango, according to the military) of the 60th Infantry Battalion and SPO1 Ruel Pasion of the Philippine National Police (PNP) at a checkpoint they set up in Mangloy village in Laak town, Compostela Valley on January 17.  The NPA said they confiscated a .45 caliber pistol from their captives.

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Migrants demand PHL gov’t for the immediate repatriation, full compensation of Algeria’s OFW victims

Press Release 19 January 2013 A migrant workers’ rights political party expressed sympathy and alarm over reports of Filipino workers who were held hostage in Algeria.  More than 36 overseas…

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