President Rodrigo Duterte is bent on crushing the extremists fighting government forces in the embattled Marawi City.
Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison said he has nothing to do with the group called the Patriotic and Democratic Movement (PADEM) that is calling for the ouster of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
The Office of the Ombudsman launched a new process of transferring and digitizing the case records through Data Migrations System (DMS).
A 32-year old farmer was shot dead by still unidentified assailants in Mawab, Compostela Valley province on Wednesday noon.
Private First Class Rudillo Bartolome was fresh from the fighting in Marawi City and was on his way home when he was killed on the spot by police officers in Zamboanga del Sur on Wednesday, Aug. 23.
A church musician of a local parish here was arrested by police authorities after allegedly taking hostage the parish priest around 10 a.m on Wednesday, Aug. 23.
There is a GIF cartoon I recently saw on the internet of PNP Chief Ronald “Bato” de la Rosa and Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana Jr feverishly licking a phallic bullet until it climaxes. Racy and graphic as it is, it captures the overall fixation of the Duterte administration upon guns and arms, and the unabashed resorting to militaristic solutions to current social problems: Bato and the so-called “War on Drugs” and Lorenzana with the declaration and upholding of Martial Law.
After its existence for 50 years, Filipinos apparently are still not well aware of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the low coverage of the media on ASEAN matters is partly to be blamed for this, a study conducted by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies showed.
With the rising number of drone-users in the city, a local security chief urged that the use of the remote-controlled aircraft equipment should be monitored.
Prof. Hidetoshi Nishimura, president of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), presents the fourth volume of the commemorative publication titled, “Building ASEAN Community: Political-Security and Socio-Cultural Reflections” on Thursday, Aug. 24 at the Marco Polo Hotel, Davao City. (More…) (Robby Joy D. Salveron/davaotoday.com)
