On the first day of this school year, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) called anew for the increase in salary of public school teachers.
Another school year is set to open next week, but public schools were expected to struggle with same "age-old problems".
The human rights group Karapatan welcomed the Supreme Court’s issuance of writ of amparo and habeas data in favor of rights groups, which have been accused as “communist fronts” by the military.
This city would not slacken on enforcing the ban on smoking in public places as it commemorated its 17th anniversary of the anti-smoking campaign and in observance of the World No Tobacco Day.
Six persons, including two police officers, were wounded when law enforcers exchanged gunfire during a "misencounter" in Barangay Puerto, this city, Thursday night, police said Friday.