The Bureau of Fire Protection tallied 362 fire incidents in Davao region as of October 31, this year, with Davao City recording the highest number of casualties.
Government chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III vowed to release some 50-70 political prisoners before the international human rights day on December 10, as he extended his condolences to the family of Bernabe Ocasla, one of the 400 political prisoners who recently died of a heart attack.
President Rodrigo Duterte urged the public to be more active in community and national issues as his message for the 153rd birth anniversary of national hero, Andres Bonifacio.
President Rodrigo Duterte took the opportunity during the inauguration of the mega drug rehab facility in Nueva Ecija to lambast anew critics of his anti-drug war.
Various human rights groups scored the government for the death of a political prisoner who suffered a cardiac arrest.