The top-ranking military official here said the armed struggle carried out by the New People’s Army is irrelevant in the midst of a country that is “now slowly developing”.
While a Lumad woman was in labor inside an evacuation center ran by the religious, hundreds of indigenous peoples (IPs) believed to be members of the paramilitary group, Alamara, passed by the center and held a brief protest action against the New People’s Army.
Lindy Yambanao, a 23 year-old Matigsalug-Kulamanon tribal woman from Kitaotao, Bukidnon gave birth to a baby boy, her fourth child Tuesday afternoon in a make-shift shelter house inside an evacuation center here.
The Communist Party of the Philippines on Tuesday, declared a 12-day ceasefire for all the commands and units of its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), to observe starting from 12:00 am of December 23 up to 11:59 pm of January 3, 2016.
Over 6,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were deployed abroad every year but not all of them were accounted by the government, a migrant advocacy group said.
Some 133 survivors of Typhoon Pablo from Compostela town in Compostela Valley Province returned home today after hearing news that the Army has left their community.
A total of 120 Manobo evacuees from Bukidnon returned to their homes Sunday after military forces were reported to have pulled-out from their communities in the past weeks.
The New People’s Army on weekend launched separate attacks in Davao region injuring 19 individuals and killing four others.
Various church groups today vowed to stand against human trafficking describing it as an “absolute evil” which denies dignity of the victims.
The Bureau of Fire and Protection (BFP) said the number of fire incidents this year surged 50 percent higher compared to last year.
