With Philippine flaglets in hand, World War II Veterans Emmanuel Go, 92, and Teofilo Gamutan, 94, participate on Monday’s flag-raising ceremony in celebration of the 119th Independence Day celebration held at the Rizal Park along San Pedro Street in Davao City. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio hands a souvenir gift to Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, who was the city’s guest of honor during Monday’s (June 12) Independence Day celebration held at the Rizal Park. Lorenzana led the flag raising ceremony in Davao which was conducted simultaneously in major cities around the country. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
The peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas said the country will only gain war, not freedom and independence as the US continue to step on the Philippines’national sovereignty.
Life is on a standstill, literally, on a cardboard for hundreds of thousands of civilians affected by the May 23 terrorist attack here.
Major Ezra Latawan Balagtey, spokesperson of Eastern Mindanao Command, said that military troops from the 16th Infantry Battalion encountered a group of New People’s Army at Sitio Bajada, Paradise Embac, Paquibato District, this city early morning on June 11.
The government’s operations against the Maute group resulted in 50 casualties among the Philippine Army troops on Friday, 17 days after President Rodrigo Duterte declared Martial Law in Mindanao.
The Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns on Sunday condemned the death of a Grade 6 pupil inside a Mosque in Marawi.
President Rodrigo Duterte pins a wounded personnel medal to Cpl. Jose Raymond Estorion of the Philippine Marines on Sunday afternoon, June 11, at the Camp Brig. General Edilberto Evangelista in Cagayan de Oro City. Estorion was among the 84 government troops who were wounded in action in the fight against the Maute group in Marawi City. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said he is not aware of the role played by the US Special Forces in Marawi City
Bookstore Sari-Sari Storybooks announces the launching children’s books that will promote language renewal as it is set to release into the market picture books written in local dialect.
