NPA forming new front in Davao City

THE NEW PEOPLE’S ARMY IN THE DAVAO REGION has reassigned a special unit to Davao City in what is apparently part of a plan to establish a new communist rebel front in Mindanao’s premier city.
An underground source identified the unit as the Paking Quimbaolibot Command which has been pulled out from Compostela Valley province for [...]

Abu Sayyaf: From terrorists to drug merchants

By ROGER M. BALANZA
The head of the Philippines’ anti-drug agency said the Abu Sayyaf—the country’s most notorious Islamic militant group—may be running marijuana farms and protecting drug lords in Mindanao to finance its terroristic activities.
Our latest discoveries of marijuana plantations were in the islands of Basilan and Jolo, indicating the Abu Sayyaf Group may have [...]

Davao City council to look into water district, union row

AS THE DAVAO CITY WATER DISTRICT (DCWD) meted termination and suspension on activist employees, the Davao City Council said it would look into the problem triggered by workers’ demand for benefits, a stop to a proposed P100 million expansion program and harassment.
Edgar Ibuyan, chair of the committee on labor and employment opportunities, said he would [...]