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COTABATO CITY - The city government of Cotabato has urged the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to look into the welfare of Badjaos in the city.

MARAWI CITY -- The education department dismissed on Tuesday as illegal the salary claims without daily time records of ten employees here loyal to the city’s ousted schools division superintendent.The group, identified with retired Marawi City schools superintendent Mona Macatanong, has complained to different forums early on about the non-payment of their wages by the Department of Education-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DepEd-ARMM).John Magno, regional secretary of DepEd-ARMM, on Tuesday told reporters the ten employees could not submit valid daily time records (DTRs) as proof of

AL-BARKA, Basilan – Since February 2015, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has brought free services closer to the public through People’s Day, a monthly activity. On Monday, March 27, the regional government went to Basilan province's Al-Barka town, the Abu Sayyaf Group’s former stronghold, to mount such event.People’s Day brings different line agencies of the ARMM in convergence to offer free basic social services to the region’s constituents for free, and to reach the people at the grassroots level.

MAGUINDANAO --- Local leaders and senior security officials on Saturday forged a covenant to cooperate in preventing the spread of misguided Islamic militants in Maguindanao province.The event capped off a summit against terrorism and lawlessness at the public gymnasium in Guindulungan town in Maguindanao.The five-hour activity was organized by Guindulungan Mayor Midpantao Midtimbang, Jr., the Army’s 603rdBrigade, the 6thInfantry Division and the Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.Gen.

MAGUINDANAO --- The governor of Maguindanao has offered lots for offices of two national agencies essential to domestic campaigns against human trafficking and misguided Islamic militants.Gov.

MAGUINDANAO --- Authorities arrested before dawn Wednesday three more large-scale drug traffickers in Maguindanao province, two of them women, in a renewed crackdown that began last week.Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM) and local police personnel cornered the cohorts Kehar Dido, his wife Tayalin, and a female relative, Bai Dido, in Barangay Pinguiamin southeast of Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.They are among the top ten most wanted drug dealers in the municipality.Chief Inspector Achmad Alibonga of the Datu Odin Sinsua

WAO, Lanao del Sur -- A Magnitude 3.5 earthquake hit this mountain town Saturday morning, the state volcanology office reported today.Traced 15 kilometers west of Wao, the tremor was tectonic in origin and felt at 9:19 a.m., according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).No casualty or damages to properties was reported.Intensity 4 was felt in Wao, Lanao del Sur and Kalilangan, Bukidnon.Before the 9:19 a.m. quake, Wao felt Magnitude 3.0 at 8:52 a.m., Magnitude 3.7 at 7:53 a.m. and Magnitude 3.4 at 6:27 a.m., also on Saturday.

COTABATO CITY --- Twenty two large-scale drug traffickers were arrested in two days of separate joint police-military operations in the neighboring Maguindanao and North Cotabato provinces.North Cotabato is in Region 12 while Maguindanao is a component province of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).Senior Supt.

MAGUINDANAO --- Relatives of three villagers killed in a mysterious conflagration that razed their house in S.K. Pendatun town are certain there was foul play in the incident.Elders of Mianong Pagalad, Rahim Pagalad and Bai Rajima Pagalad, are certain they were killed before their house in Barangay Bagundang in S.K. Pendatun, Maguindanao was set on fire before dawn Sunday.Senior Superintendent Agustin Tello, director of the Maguindanao provincial police, said Wednesday he has directed the S.K.

COTABATO CITY – The sixth-year commemoration of the Bangsamoro Week of Peace officially commenced today, March 13, with an opening ceremony held in the ORG compound and led by Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).This year's theme for the annual event is‘Bangsamoroand Revisiting the Past, Continuing the Cause.Gov. Hataman said it is only through remembering the previous struggles of the Bangsamoro can today’s generation be empowered to continue the cause and achieve lasting peace in this part of the country.