President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday gave local chief executives a stern warning, either to resign or confess what they know, if their names were found to be on the drugs list, among other personalities involved in the illegal drugs trade.
Around 600 personnel from the airforce, navy and army will form most of the 1,000 troops to be deployed during the launching of the ASEAN Summit here on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017.
The military refuted claims made by the New People’s Army that Mandaya tribal chieftain Cupertino Banugan was killed in Davao Oriental province due to self-defense.
Davao City is known for its very stringent traffic rules. Through Executive Order 39 signed by then Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on 2013, drivers currently have to stay within the speed limit of 30 kph in downtown areas, 40 kph along roads leading to downtown areas, and 60 kph on national highways.
Poll watchdog Kontra Daya welcomed on Friday the findings of the National Privacy Commission on the liability of Commission on Elections chairman Andres Bautista to the massive data breach of voters’ data last year.
Authorities here are tightening security measures in preparation for two international events, the ASEAN Summit and Ms. Universe fashion show.
A tribal Mandaya tribal chieftain and two other members of a paramilitary group were killed by the New People’s Army (NPA) in Caraga town, Davao Oriental province on Dec. 30 last week.
The Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, Inc., a labor non-government organization, said that Social Security System can wholly finance the P2,000 pension increase.
Russia is offering its friendship and cooperation to the Philippines including any form of military cooperation.
Militant lawmakers slammed the economic managers of President Rodrigo Duterte over the Social Security System pension hike issue and dared them to live with P40 only, the present daily equivalent of the P1,200 monthly base pension of the country’s SSS pensioners.
