The construction boom felt in Mindanao is seen as a major factor that could potentially decongest the Philippine capital of Manila, where millions of Filipinos from the provinces go for work opportunities.
Lumad and Moro delegates to this year’s Lakbayan of National Minorities stormed the south gate of the House of Representatives on Tuesday morning, Sept. 5 to press a zero allocation and budget for the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and call for its abolition.
A local official from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and two others were arrested in a drug buy-bust operation at a high-end subdivision here Sunday, September 3.
Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and his brother-in-law Manases Carpio said on Monday, September 4, that they are willing to attend the Senate hearing over allegations of their involvement in drug smuggling.
A leading pediatric group in the country is recommending against in-school random drug testing because there’s not enough evidence to show its effectiveness.
Former House Speaker Prospero Nograles on Saturday, September 2, reiterated his support to President Rodrigo Duterte and vowed his loyalty to Duterte’s family, turning around a political feud that stretched for decades.
There was no truth to reports that the local government of Kapalong blocked barred a team of social workers from conducting a one-stop shop service to a Lumad community, the mayor of the town said on Sunday, September 3.
Leaders of non-Islamized indigenous tribes in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are taking a “non-confrontational approach” to demand for a revision of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), a bill that has been filed in Congress which they say still lacks provisions that will protect their right to ancestral domain.
President Rodrigo Duterte said he is opening the country’s borders to its neighbors to help hunt down jihadist militants that have been spreading terror in Southeast Asia.
Almost a year ago, Edmon Arellano, who was a former security guard at a shopping center here, vowed to run after terrorist groups if the government gives him the chance.
