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COTABATO CITY – The illegal activities of two men here ended Wednesday afternoon
after they were arrested in a drug buy bust operation where more than half
million worth of illegal stuff were seized.

Director
Juvenal Azurin of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDE-ARMM) identified the suspects as Alton Sansawi
Racman alias Ellie, 27, pedicab driver and his cohort Nashrolah Sambolawan
Salipada, 33 years old, jobless, both were residents of Barangay Rosary Heights
7, Cotabato City.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Two motorists were killed when their motorbike rammed a passenger van while traversing the Maguindanao-North Cotabato highway, 2 p.m., Tuesday, police reports said.Inspector Rasul Pandulo, chief of the Datu Montawal municipal police station, identified the slain victims as Blah Sinolinding, 29, driver of the Honda Beat motorcycle and Aiza Masual, 24, both residents of Poblacion, Datu Montawal in Maguindanao.Pandulo, citing witnesses, said the motorcycle driven by Sinolinding was speeding too fast when it overtook a vehicle but failed to see a Toyota D4D passenger van from

MAGUINDANAO --- The Army said Thursday it was for the vigilance of central Mindanao residents that authorities succeeded in preempting recent bombing plots by terrorists in the region.Gen.

MAGUINDANAO --- Farmers lost 67 heads of cattle in rampaging floodwaters that swept through barangays in Sultan Mastura, Maguindanao on Saturday.Local officials said many of the farm animals drowned in floodwaters are water buffaloes that Sultan Mastura’s flood-stricken Moro residents used in plowing their rice and corn farms.Farmers in the municipality rely largely on draft animals, such as carabaos and cows, in tilling their lands.Workers of the Humanitarian Emergency Assistance and Response Team, most known as HEART, immediately relocated the flood victims to areas far from rivers that o

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COTABATO CITY - Workers of the Aboitiz-owned Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) and volunteers joined Friday parents and education officials of a public school here in this year's Brigada Eskwela. Arlene Hepiga of the Cotabato Light Human Resources and Reputation Enhancement (HR-RED), said the firm's participation in the preparation of school for this year's classes opening involved repainting of chairs and classrooms, re-wiring and cleaning the surroundings.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – The second batch of this year’s Candidate Soldiers took oath here at 6th Infantry Division Grandstand this morning, June 1, 2018.A total of 285 qualified aspiring soldiers stand before 6th ID Commander, Brig. Gen. Cirilito E. Sobejana, and to their proud parents, relatives and love ones, as they took oath before they will be sent to Division Training School (DTS) in Brgy. Semba, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) and the National Youth Commission (NYC) had given appreciation and recognition of the Kidapawan City government’s anti-drug programs, said a local official.City Mayor Joseph Evangelista said he received the accolade from the DDB and the NYC after his lectures during the anti-drug forum held a week ago in Kalibo, Aklan where he introduced two of his special programs to the participants.Evangelista’s anti-drug programs include the, Balik Pangarap(To Dream Again) Program , and Barkada Kontra Droga(Friends who are Against Drugs).

MANILA – A bill
extending the franchises of Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation (NDBC) for 25
more years had been approved on third and final reading early this week.

Rikki Climaco,
NDBC Media Marketing chief operations officer, said the hearing and eventual
approval of the Senate version of the bill went on smoothly with all the firms’
representatives in attendance.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- A driver of a multi-cab passenger jeep in Kabacan ws shot dead by still unidentified assailant in Barangay Kayaga Wednesday Thursday.The Kabacan municipal police office identified the victim as Andro Manaka, 34, a resident of Sitio Lumayong, Barangay Kayaga.Police said the victim died on the spot from multiple gunshot wounds and his vehicle fell off a roadside canal after the shooting at 2:45 p.m.