Group urges GRP-NDFP to include drug-related killings in peace talks

A church-based group on Tuesday urged the Government Republic of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front to include in the next round of peace talks, the spate of drug-related killings across the country.

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MEET AND GREET. Incoming Presidential Communications Operations Office chief, Martin Andanar, meets with reporters to lay down his plans for the office Saturday, June 4. Andanar is also a reporter and news anchor before his appointment. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

NUJP scores Andanar for blaming media over Duterte’s Martial law remark

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines scored on Monday Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar’s claim that the media “misreported” President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement on Martial Law in his administration’s war on drugs.

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Gabriela pitches ‘One Billion Rising’ 2017 for GRP-NDFP talks

Organizers of the “One Billion Rising,” a mass action campaign to end violence against women, pitched the OBR campaign to show support on the slated 3rd round of peace talks between the government and the communist group in Rome, Italy.

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Read more about the article Rival coop denies hand in shooting of farmers
Roberto Mantilla of Hearbco-1also denied that it was their group which hired the plantation guards, saying all the allegations are baseless and untrue. PHOTO BY JAYCEL VILLACORTE / DAVAOTODAY.COM

Rival coop denies hand in shooting of farmers

A representative of the Hijo Employees Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Cooperative – 1, denied on Monday that they have had a hand in the recent shooting incident and the forced eviction of the Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries, Inc. farmers.

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