FACING THE MEDIA. Military police officials field questions from members of the Davao City media during a recent edition of the PNP/AFP Press Corps’ weekly media conference at the headquarters of Task Force Davao. JIM TAN NUEVO

NPA VOWS MORE ATTACKS VS. AFP; DENIES HAND IN COMPOSTELA VALLEY GRENADE BLAST

The communist New People’s Army (NPA) owned up the raid on a town hall in Davao Oriental, but fingered the military in a grenade blast in Nabunturan, Compostela Valley province that killed 3 people and wounded 12 others last week.

Miracle in Davao: Manna from heaven in styrofoam lunch packs

By ROGER M. BALANZA

It could have been manna from heaven in the form of seemingly inexhaustible free lunch packs in Styrofoam that fell on poor Dabawenyos grappling with stiff cost of rice and other basic commodities.
Or it could have been a result of poor arithmetic. But lay workers who helped distribute [...]

Mindanao conflict: A vicious cycle of endless fighting

A ceasefire may clear the path to peace talks between the Philippine government and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), but the political aspects of the conflict for peace to reign in troubled Mindanao.
Without these political aspects resolved, there will be no end to the fighting, said Muhammad Ameen, chairperson of the MILF Secretariat, [...]