Spokesperson Zia Alonto-Adiong of the Provincial Crisis Management Committee denied earlier reports that some displaced families from Marawi have already experienced hunger inside evacuation centers, and that others were already forced to eat blankets and food boxes.
The Department of Education is now establishing learning spaces inside the evacuation centers and public schools here that will provide conducive areas for displaced schoolchildren from Marawi to study their lessons.
Despite the unfavorable weather condition, President Rodrigo Duterte pushed through with his scheduled visit to more than 169 families now seeking temporary refuge at the gymnasium of the Fisheries High School in Buru-un here on Tuesday afternoon, June 20.
Memoranda citing intelligence reports of possible terror attacks in some areas in the country are making its rounds in social media.
The City Council is on the process of finalizing an ordinance which seeks to punish terrorist activities linked to the Islamic State or ISIS.
An associate director of the Ayala Corporation has been appointed as honorary adviser of the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
The removal of Filipino and literature subjects in colleges and universities will make CHED officials liable for contempt, a militant lawmaker said on Tuesday.
The Joint Task Force Marawi said land and air forces of the Armed Forces of the Philippines involved in the continuing military offensives against the ISIS-linked Maute Group here do not use poison bombs.
Naval forces of the United States and the Philippines will hold a weeklong maritime training in Cebu from June 19 to 25.
Malacanang on Monday said the focus of the government security forces in clearing the besieged Marawi City remains on combat, intelligence and civil military operations.
