Davao City on Blue Alert for Typhoon Onyok
Davao City is placed under blue alert status as Tropical Depression "Onyok" entered the Philippine area of responsibility Wednesday afternoon.
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AFP commander says NPA cause irrelevant, calls for peace talks
The top-ranking military official here said the armed struggle carried out by the New People's Army is irrelevant in the midst of a country that is "now slowly developing".
Tribal militiamen stage rally outside evacuation camp in Davao City
While a Lumad woman was in labor inside an evacuation center ran by the religious, hundreds of indigenous peoples (IPs) believed to be members of the paramilitary group, Alamara, passed by the center and held a brief protest action against the New People's Army.
HOME BIRTH. Matigsalug-Kulamanon from Kitaotao, Bukidnon Rita Yambanao carries her grandson after she assisted giving birth to her niece, Lindy, on Tuesday afternoon. Lindy is the third woman from their barangay who gave birth inside the church-owned compound where Lumad evacuees are sheltered. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Lumad woman gives birth in evacuation center
Lindy Yambanao, a 23 year-old Matigsalug-Kulamanon tribal woman from Kitaotao, Bukidnon gave birth to a baby boy, her fourth child Tuesday afternoon in a make-shift shelter house inside an evacuation center here.
CPP declares 12-day ceasefire
The Communist Party of the Philippines on Tuesday, declared a 12-day ceasefire for all the commands and units of its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), to observe starting from 12:00 am of December 23 up to 11:59 pm of January 3, 2016.