DAVAO CITY – Amid police assurance that the situation in Pikit, North Cotabato is still under control, the atmosphere of fear still reigns among residents. Many residents are still afraid of going out of their houses because they feel that they could be the next victim. Last week, two minors were...
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister on Monday warned of "corresponding counteraction" to US-South Korean joint military drills, state media said, after Pyongyang carried out two banned missile launches in two days. KIM YO JONG (AFP) "The frequency of using...
A woman walks past a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on February 18, 2023. Anthony WALLACE / AFP SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea fired a suspected long-range ballistic missile Saturday, South Korea's military...
TOKYO, Japan -- A North Korean missile that is believed to have landed in Japan's exclusive economic zone on Saturday was intercontinental ballistic missile-class, the government in Tokyo said. Pyongyang "fired one ICBM-class ballistic missile toward the east. It flew for about 66 minutes," chief...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has declared a gun ban in two provinces and 63 barangays in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) following an ambush on Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Alonto Adiong Jr on Friday, Feb. 17, that left four people, three of them policemen, dead....
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos Jr. ordered on Thursday, Feb. 16, the Philippine National Police (PNP) to investigate the shooting incident that killed a 13-year old boy and injured two others in a remote area in Pikit, North Cotabato....
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. on Thursday, Feb. 16, ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP) to investigate the shooting incident in a remote barangay in Pikit town, North Cotabato province in which a 13-year-old student was killed and two...
DAVAO CITY – The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has expressed alarm over the shooting incident in Pikit, North Cotabato in which a 13-year-old student was killed and two other students were wounded on Valentine’s Day. “The killing of innocent children is unacceptable...
PIKIT, North Cotabato (PNA) – A police manhunt is under way for gunmen who shot three school children in a remote barangay here, killing one and wounding two others on Valentine’s Day. “We strongly condemn the shooting at Barangay Gli-gli of minor students who are residents of Barangay...
Police arrested a member of a gun-for-hire group wanted for murder in Batangas in Kabacan, North Cotabato. Col. Pedro Soliba, Batangas police chief, in a report to Brig. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez, Police Regional Office 4-A director, identified the suspect as Rafael Bancoro, 50, a native of San...
The Department of Finance (DOF) has signed two loan agreements worth Y377.02 billion, equivalent to P156.08 billion, with the Japanese government for the implementation of the North-South Commuter Railway project and its extension on the sidelines of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.'s visit to...
This picture taken on February 8, 2023 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 9, 2023 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (C) saluting as his daughter presumed to be named Ju Ae (back C) and wife Ri Sol Ju (back L) look on while observing a...
