LOS ANGELES (AFP) -- Jalen Brunson scored 34 points as the New York Knicks completed a wire-to-wire 119-112 road victory over the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco on Monday, March 18. Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks goes up for a shot on Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors in the...
TACLOBAN CITY – Authorities have dismantled two more New People’s Army (NPA) units in Eastern Visayas. These were Platoon 2 of Island Committee 47 Levox operating in the provinces of Leyte, Biliran, and Southern Leyte, and the Elcon Platoon of Sub-Regional Committee Browser operating in the...
BACOLOD CITY – A New People’s Army (NPA) leader surrendered to the 79th Infantry Battalion in Sagay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, March 17. MAP of Negros Occidental with Sagay City highlighted. The rebel returnee was a vice squad leader or intelligence officer of Squad 1, SDG Platoon...
BUTUAN CITY – Four New People’s Army (NPA) rebels surrendered to the 36th Infantry (Valor) Battalion in Carmen, Surigao del Sur, over the weekend. FOUR New People’s Army surrendered to the 36th Infantry Battalion in Carmen, Surigao del Sur last weekend. (Photo of via Mike U. Crismundo) ...
BACOLOD CITY – The 62nd Infantry Battalion foiled the plan of the New People’s Army (NPA) to disrupt socio-economic programs in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental on Friday, March 15. Troops engaged four remnants of the Leonardo Panaligan Command of the NPA under Komiteng Rehiyon-Negros, Cebu,...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Women’s Month this year became an opportunity for SM Supermalls to continue what now looks like a tradition of inviting, and flying in, very interesting speakers to highlight an SM occasion. Just last year, we had noted Canadian author...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Two New People’s Army rebels surrendered to the police in Mountain Province and Kalinga. Police Brig. Gen. David Peredo Jr., Police Regional Office-Cordillera chief, said a 35-year-old team leader of Squad Dos, Unit Malliari of Ka SLY under the Lejo Cawilan...
SURIGAO CITY – Surigao del Norte has been declared insurgency-free after the massive and successive surrender of high-ranking New People’s Army leaders in the province at the provincial gymnasium here on Friday, March 15. Gov. Lyndon Barbers said that the province has become conflict-manageable...
Countryside Investments Holdings Corporation (Countryside), a company wholly owned by Leandro Leviste, is investing over P5 billion to help propel the development of rural Batangas. In a statement, Leviste said this will be done in partnership with his renewable energy firm Solar Philippines Power...
BUTUAN CITY – A New People’s Army leader surrendered to the government in Surigao del Norte on Monday, March 11. A TOP NPA amazon and her three comrades yielded these guns and bullets in Surigao del Norte. (Photo via Mike Crismundo) Capt. Jonel G. Castillo, Civil-Military Operations (CMO)...
BUTUAN CITY – Fourteen New People’s Army (NPA) rebels have surrendered to the military in the Caraga region. They surrendered nine high-powered firearms and vowed to support the government’s peace and development program, said 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office (PAO) chief Lt. Col....
In the urban landscape of Metro Manila, where available land is increasingly scarce, the Department of Finance is suggesting the development of new modern business districts on two large state-owned lands that could replicate the success of Bonifacio Global City (BGC). Finance Secretary Ralph G....