A total of eight members of the Army and three members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed in separate encounters in Mindanao days before the State of the Nation Address of President Benigno Aquino.
Members of Congress' Makabayan bloc condemned as “forcible and violent” the attempts to evict tribal families from a church compound here.
Mothers, including soon-to-be moms, and their partners will gather here in a breastfeeding mobilization on August 1 to campaign for breastfeeding of their infants.
Local officials here intervened in the commotion inside an evacuation camp, which the Davao City Police Office raided on Thursday morning.
A local official from the town of Caraga in Davao Oriental has filed a resolution urging the local government to regulate the staging of lewd programs after the town’s acting mayor allegedly sponsored an event showing “sensual dancing with suggestive sexual remarks.”