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COTABATO CITY (Updated 7:04 p.m.) — More than a thousand Moro and non-Moro residents in Maguindanao del Sur and Maguindanao del Norte on Thursday joined a regional partly trying to fix the economic woes in the Bangsamoro region by improving commerce and trade in its six provinces and three cities.
COTABATO CITY— Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency confiscated P3.4 million worth of shabu from four peddlers, one of them a woman, who fell in a sting in Barangay Poblacion 2 in Cotabato City on Thursday.
COTABATO CITY — Gunmen killed a 26-year-old female official of a provincial office of the Bangsamoro social services ministry in an ambush in Barangay Semba in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte on Wednesday afternoon.
MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Surigao del Norte shortly after midnight yesterday.
MANILA, Philippines — Speaker Martin Romualdez asked his lawmaker-counterparts in US Congress for an expansion of joint military exercises in the Philippines and also sought an increased US foreign military financing.
MANILA, Philippines — The sudden “aggressive influx” of Chinese nationals near sites of the Philippines-US Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) should be a cause for concern for the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Bureau of Immigration (BI), according to a congressman.
MANILA, Philippines — National Security Adviser Eduardo Año has joined calls for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate and file charges against Davao del Norte first district Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez.
MANILA, Philippines — The National Security Council (NSC) called on the Department of Justice to consider legal action against Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez (Davao del Norte) after the ally of former leader Rodrigo Duterte told the military and the police to withdraw its support for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.