The 11 candidates to this year’s Hiyas ng Kadayawan pose for the cameras in a press conference on Thursday, August 10 at the Star Hotel in Davao City. The candidates were selected by their tribes to represent them to the competition which will be held on August 18. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
The local town officials in Lanao del Sur are asking help from the regional and provincial government to help them address livelihood problems brought by the crisis in Marawi City that has dragged on to its 80th day since the siege laid by extremists started on May 23.
More rural villagers are expected to arrive at the evacuation center in the municipality of Opol, Misamis Oriental after a group of armed men believed to be members of the New People’s Army were seen in the town’s four hinterland communities since last week, the mayor said Wednesday.
The militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan scored the proposal of the United States of America to use airstrikes against the ISIS-linked groups in the country.
First Lieutenant Geraldo Alvarez of the 5th Mechanized Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army is now ready to go back to the front line after recovering from the wound he sustained from the main battle area here.
Some Mindanao lawmakers have expressed their support for the rehabilitation of the besieged Marawi City through allocation of funds as the Lower House has started deliberating the budget for next year.
Less than two weeks before the Kadayawan festival officially opens, the Davao City Tourism Office is already 75 percent done with overall preparations, an official said.
Two weeks since President Rodrigo Duterte announced he does not want to talk to the communists anymore the National Democratic Front of the Philippines said it has not yet received a formal notice from the Philippine government.
The two National Interfaith Humanitarian Missions, especially the recently-concluded second wave, were able to open venues for the victims’ demands. These were venues that even the poorest, and in social heirarchies normally voiceless, evacuees were able to access. This
allowed the fleshing out cases of human rights
violations under Martial Law beyond the
common narrative of the effects of the aerial
bombings.
Internally displaced residents will be given role in constructing the transition houses here, an official said over the weekend.
