The New People's Army claimed it seized a total of 74 firearms and other war materiel during a raid of a town mayor's mining compound Tuesday night in Monkayo, Compostela Valley.
Four of the 78 overseas Filipino workers who returned home from Yemen on Tuesday, are from Davao Region, an OWWA (Overseas Workers Welfare Administration) official here said.
Government soldiers "evicted" farmers from their homes and installed sand bags surrounding them to use them as “barracks”, the human rights group Karapatan said after a fact-finding mission in the area Wednesday last week.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte tied Interior Secretary Mar Roxas in the third spot in the recent Social Weather Station survey on the best leaders who should succeed President Benigno Aquino in 2016.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue estimated that more than 700 taxpayers beat the deadline last April 15.