An official of the Davao City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (DRRMO) said residents should not worry on the recent tsunami alert in 20 provinces, including Davao del Sur, Davao Oriental and Davao Occidental.
Around 500 individuals joined the delegation from Davao and North Cotabato for a three-day mercy mission in Barangay White Culaman in Kitaotao, Bukidnon to "give assistance to victims of militarization" in the area.
Two members of the Army and an identified member of the Magahat-Bagani paramilitary group were accosted for taking footages of the funeral of massacre victims in Surigao del Sur on Sunday.
Despite being called "the most vulnerable of sectors," Lumad women chose to be at the forefront in the defense of their ancestral land.
Groups advocating organic farming worry on the possible contamination of cornfields in Mindanao after a study conducted by farmers' group Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (Masipag) showed a white corn variety in Bukidnon tested positive with the genetically modified Round-up Ready (RR corn) hybrid traits.