Long power outages irk Panabo’s first-time registrants
Prolonged power outages have angered first-time registrants during the city’s continuing voter’s registration at the Commission on Election.
Estafa case vs. ‘unlisted’ Daneco-NEA mulled; rival lawyer says registration no need
Because it was not registered as a corporation, collection of payments made by the Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative (Daneco), under the wing of National Electrification Administration (NEA), is “illegal.”
‘Fall guy’ trick slammed; activists fear crackdown
Davao activists expressed alarm that they might be the next target of arrests and “trumped-up” charges by the military in the wake of recent incidence of rights abuses. This, as a partylist congressman condemned what he calls as the use of “fall guy trick(s)” to justify illegal arrests.
Govt snubs calls for peace talks as war vs reds continue
Mounting offensives from both Armed Forces of the Philippines and the New People's Army have escalated in the past weeks as the government peace panel snubbed proposals to re-open talks with the National Democratic Front.
Nat’l probe in Lumad, peasant communities starts
Manila-based rights advocates and partylist representatives joined a week-long fact-finding mission starting Monday to look into the region’s “rampant human rights violations” in farflung communities.