The militant labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) has appealed to the government to implement a P750 wage across the board wage increase in a bid to ease the inflation.
The City government of Davao is set to give P10 million as financial and relief assistance to five provinces affected by Tropical Depression Usman.
The New People’s Army (NPA) in Northern Mindanao has deferred the release of the alleged 16 prisoners of war due to the intensified joint offensive operations by the police and the military, an NPA spokesperson said.
A militant Moro group on Tuesday hit out the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for quickly blaming alleged ISIS militants as the group behind the deadly bomb explosion in Cotabato City last December 31 even a thorough probe has yet to conclude about the incident.
Exiled Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison warned that Filipinos are expected to experience the worst economic and political crisis for 2019, attributing to the imposition of higher taxes and commodity and services prices are expected to rise faster this year.