The military in Davao Oriental vowed to block the New People’s Army’s attempts “to disturb the peace” after more or less 30 alleged rebels attacked Sitio Barobo, Barangay San Isidro in Lupon, Davao Oriental at 10:30 a.m. last Saturday. Brig. Gen. Leonido Bongcawil, commander of the 701st Infantry Brigade, said they have been receiving consistent reports about the rebels setting up to attack ...

AT LEAST 55 poor cities and municipalities in Eastern Visayas were included in the 600 focus areas in the implementation of bottom-up budgeting, an approach that will incorporate in budgets of key departments the priority requirements of poor local government units (LGUs).

BINMALEY, Pangasinan -- Two boys taking a vacation with their family here drowned at the beach at Barangay San Isidro Norte Monday morning. The body of Juan Leroan Guija III, 8 years old, was found Monday afternoon while his 10-year-old brother, Jun Michael, remains missing as of Tuesday afternoon. /taxonomy/term/0 read more

MANILA, Philippines - As part of its thrust to develop a new generation of young Filipino leaders, the Ateneo de Manila University-School of Government (ASOG), in cooperation with the Kaya Natin! Movement for Good Governance and Ethical Leadership and the Office of Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan, will hold the 1st Youth Leaders Summit for Good Governance on April 19-21, at the Ateneo campus ...

BINMALEY, Pangasinan -- The body of the 10-year-old boy who drowned with his younger brother last Monday morning at the beach in Barangay San Isidro Norte was finally found. Police Inspector Rommel Sembrano, Binmaley Police Station administrative officer, said the cadaver was found by a concerned citizen around 10 a.m. Wednesday along the shoreline in Barangay Buenlag near the boundary of ...

MANILA, Philippines - Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) nabbed two persons in a buy-bust operation on a private residence doubling as drug den in Jaro, Iloilo this week.

ANTIPOLO City, Jan. 27, 2012—Karapatan Southern Mindanao Region (SMR) has sounded the alarm over the arbitrary occupation by the composite troops of the 2nd and 28th Infantry Battalions of schools and barangay halls in Brgy. San Isidro, in Lupon town, province of Davao Oriental. read more

JARDELEZA NAMED SOLICITOR GENERAL President Benigno Aquino 3rd has appointed Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon Francis Jardeleza as the new Solicitor General.

Two barangay or municipal district officials and a companion traveling with them were shot dead while a fourth man on the same motorcycle escaped unscathed from the ambush early Tuesday evening in the town of Uson in Masbate, a police official said Wednesday.

At the end of a month-long South American sojourn, after the cool wind and rain of Cuzco and Machu Picchu, we were ready for sea level and the warmth and fine food of Lima.