Armed followers of a Moro revolutionary faction were able to penetrate this week into a major military camp in Maguindanao and reportedly confiscated some small weapons from government soldiers, the group said.
Police here filed carnapping charges against an Army sergeant and his companions, including alleged government top crime investigators, after a Pakistani national complained of losing two cars to the carnappers.
An activist who was supposed to join a Human Rights Day rally in Cagayan de Oro City was among those killed in the bomb explosion inside a passenger bus in the central Mindanao province of Bukidnon, on Tuesday.
The quiet campus town of Maramag, Bukidnon in central Mindanao is now gripped with shock after the bus bombing on Tuesday that claimed ten lives, including five college students, and injuring many other students aboard the bus.
Police authorities here said that the city is still on red alert status after the bus bombing incident in Maramag, Bukidnon that instantly killed 10 and injured 42 others.
Thousands of protesters joined the commemoration of the International Human Rights day in different parts of the region Wednesday.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) said that the killing and wounding of civilians in an ambush against a barangay official in Barangay Marfil, Rosario, Agusan del Sur last November 30 was unintentional and they are ready to indemnify the civilian victim who was killed.
City government employees will be enjoying their bonuses this Christmas as the city council approved on Tuesday an ordinance granting Mayor Rodrigo Duterte the authority to release the Productivity Enhancement Incentive.
A group of high-profile politicians from a motley group of political parties and persuasions have renewed previous efforts to unseat President (Benigno III) Aquino from office.
Contingents of a human rights caravan from Mindanao to Manila, Manilakbayan, is now preparing their legal documents to file a case against the Philippine National Police-Quezon City Police District (PNP-QCPD) officerPolice Superintendent Col. Pedro Sanchez and his subordinates, following a violent dispersal last November 29 that left fifteen injured including two media practitioners.
