President Rodrigo Duterte’s three-day visit to Japan is expected to benefit Mindanao which the President said will be a focus of the talk.
To the delight of thousands of indigenous and Moro people environment and natural resources secretary Gina Lopez said that her office will no longer entertain new permits for mining companies in the country.
Members of the City Council ?here, ?including Vice Mayor Paulo Duterte will be flying to Shanghai, China upon invitation to tighten the bond of the two cities.
Some 1,000 indigenous and Moro people led by “national minority” alliance group Sandugo rallied in front of the Philippine National Police headquarters at Camp Rafael T. Crame here to protest Wednesday's violent dispersal at the US Embassy.
President Rodrigo Duterte said he is not a lapdog of the US, China or any other country, but only of the Filipino people.