More than 400 motorcycle riders from all over Mindanao converged here on Saturday, September 30, to show their support to government forces who are fighting the extremists in Marawi City.
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Former senate president Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel Jr. expressed his support for the mayor of this city who has been threatened with dozens of criminal and administrative cases.
The ongoing conflict in Marawi City and the consequent displacement of thousands of civilians can be linked to many factors affecting the situation in Mindanao, a multi-sectoral group composed of Christian and Muslim leaders said.
Approving the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) should not only be the initiative to solve the decades-long conflict in Mindanao, a lawmaker from Lanao del Norte said Thursday, September 28.
More students in Metro Manila are now aware of the plight of the indigenous peoples (IPs) of Mindanao due to the conduct of the Lakbayan of National Minorities as its hundreds of Moro and Lumad delegates returned home Tuesday, September 26.
A new court order has blocked the dismissal of this city’s chief executive who is set to face a series of complaints in the coming days.
A tectonic earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 jolted parts of Bukidnon and Lanao del Sur provinces early morning on Sunday, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Philvocs) 10.
More than 300 members of the militant groups from Misamis Oriental and Bukidnon joined the protest action held nationwide Thursday as the country marked the 45th year of the declaration of Martial Law by former President Ferdinand Marcos.
It might have a different mandate from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), but the Bureau of Customs (BOC) is playing a very important part in the government’s war on drugs, Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña said Friday.
The city mayor here is optimistic that the series of criminal and administrative charges filed against him will not prosper and will be decided by the higher courts in his favor.
