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.
Children of victims of paramilitary killings in Surigao town urged President Benigno Aquino III to end the killings of indigenous peoples or Lumads.
A group of child-rights advocates lamented the government’s inaction over educational institutions “villified” as New People’s Army schools.
Friends and relatives of school administrator, Emerito Samarca, arrived in throngs last Saturday to pay their last respects to the man who they fondly called as "Tatay Emok".
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte dispelled the news that he has throat cancer.