A leader of Mamanwa tribe was gunned down by unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle on Friday, Jan. 20 in Claver, a mining town in Surigao del Norte.
The Tiamzon couple of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines peace panel shrugs off the rumor about the alleged factions inside the NDFP.
Rigoberto Sanchez, spokesperson of the Regional Operations Command of the New People's Army in Southern Mindanao said government troops arrived around 5:00 am Saturday in Sitio Concepcion, Barangay Kisante in Makilala town.
National Democratic Front of the Philippines Negotiating Panel chairperson Fidel Agcaoili is not totally closed to the idea of forging a bilateral ceasefire agreement with the Philippine government.
This was how Commission on Higher Education Commissioner Prospero De Vera III described the statement of CHED Chair Patricia Licuanan when she pointed out that the P8.3B allocation will not help the poor because majority have stopped schooling and are no longer enrolled in universities.