The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) released two more soldiers as scheduled despite the arrest of one of the commanders of its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), in Agusan del Sur on Tuesday, May 3.

Davao City will take a shot in breaking Bangladesh’s record of the most number of people singing the national anthem in one place two days before the elections.

Vice Presidential bet Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero said he supports the Mindanao Rail Project to expand the region’s productivity and trade competitiveness.

The Davao Light and Power Company is short of 105 megawatts or an equivalent of five hours of power interruption because of the ongoing drought.

The New People’s Army put up checkpoints in seven areas in Mindanao on Sunday, April 3 and captured three police officers and two soldiers.

While the farmers’ demands were unquestionably just, the powers-that-be have in the instant answered them with astonishing indifference.

NDF Mindanao spokesperson Maria Malaya explained that based on the principle of guerilla warfare “the NPA does not establish permanent camps or structures.”

A peasant group on Monday scored the government for its dry, slow and weak response as dry spell is reaching on its peak.

The New People’s Army set up a checkpoint in an unpopulated part of the national highway in Agusan del Sur at the start of the campaign period for national candidates, in a move meant to warn politicians who are entering the areas where the revolutionary groups operate to abide by their policies.

The suspect in the killing of indigenous peoples’ leaders and a school director in a town in Surigao del Sur last September 1, was seen partying a day before New Year’s eve in a village near a military detachment.