By ALI G. MACABALANG DAVAO CITY Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso has opened his city to the entry, display and sale of products from Mindanao, especially the Bangsamoro region, as he engaged the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) in the conduct of the “MinDA Tienda” in his turf scheduled this month, according to Sec. Manny… Read More Isko opens Manila to Mindanao products, cites concern for Bangsamoro
TOKYO The 60-year-old dispute over the sovereignty of Sabah, Malaysia’s second largest state, has recently reignited, creating tensions between Kuala Lumpur and Manila and adding a further complication to the many sovereignty issues in the South China Sea. It began as a diplomatic spat on Twitter. “Sabah is not in Malaysia,” Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro… Read More 60-Year-old Sabah dispute reignites tensions between Kuala Lumpur and Manila
The Western Mindanao Command (WestMinCom) and the Naval Forces Western Mindanao initiated a coastal cleanup activity at Great Sta. Cruz Island here in this city last Friday.… Read More Military units spearhead coastal cleanup in Zambo City
By John Unson GUINDULUNGAN, Maguindanao Gunmen killed an incumbent municipal councilor in Guindulungan town in a daring ambush on Monday morning. Morsid Lauban, member of the Sangguniang Bayan in Guindulungan, Maguindanao, died on the spot from multiple bullet wounds. He was driving his black Toyota pick-truck when gunmen, positioned along a stretch of a highway… Read More Town councilor killed in Maguindanao ambush
Only Lanao del Sur and its war-battered capital, Marawi, will be placed under a mild lockdown and the rest of the country will be put under more relaxed quarantine restrictions next month.… Read More Lanao Sur the only province with MECQ in Philippines
A top official of the Office of Transportation Cooperatives (OTC) has lauded the implementation of 100 percent “cashless transactions” by modernization-compliant vehicles of two transport cooperatives.… Read More Transport official lauds cashless transactions started by transport coops
Four hundred fifty-three persons with disability (PWDs) from Datu Piang in Maguindanao received cash aid from the Bangsamoro’s Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD-BARMM).… Read More PWDs in Maguindanao receive cash assistance from BARMM
Thousands of mosques and Islamic sites in China province of Xinjiang have been damaged or destroyed in just three years, leaving fewer in the region than at any time since the Cultural Revolution, according to a report on Chinese oppression of Muslim minorities.… Read More Chinese authorities erase Islamic sites
About 27 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) on Thursday night, raising the cumulative total number of cases in the region to 1,000, according to the region’s health ministry.… Read More BARMM records 27 new coronavirus cases
By Noel Punzalan CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao Government troops discovered on Friday a bomb-making factory of the Daesh-inspired Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in the Maguindanao town of Ampatuan, an Army official said. Maj. Gen. Juvymax Uy, the Army’s 6th Infantry Division commander, said soldiers belonging to the Army’s 1st Mechanized Battalion discovered the bomb-making factory… Read More BIFF bomb-making factory discovered in Maguindanao
