NEITHER AN AGREEMENT nor a joint statement was announced after the second meeting of Kim Jong Un, leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea), and US President Donald Trump during the last week of February in Vietnam. The objective of the said meeting was to rediscuss the denuclearization of the […]

THE NEW PEOPLE’S Army (NPA)-Bukidnon seized three R4 assault rifles (attached to one of which is an M203 grenade launcher), two M14s, a .45 caliber pistol, eight ammunition and vests in a successful raid against a base of the 1st Special Forces Battalion (SFB)-Civilian Active Auxiliary in Sitio Green Valley, Barangay Dalwangan, Malaybalay City on […]

THE NEW PEOPLE’S Army (NPA)-North Eastern Mindanao Region (NEMR) successively released 16 prisoners of war (POWs) on February 14-19. In the first batch, the NPA-Agusan del Sur released six members of the CAFGU Active Auxiliary (CAA) on February 14 in Barangay San Juan, Bayugan, Agusan del Sur. In the second batch, the NPA released PFC […]

THE SUPREME COURT issued a ruling in favor of the third extension of martial law in Mindanao on February 19. This was issued by the court in response to the appeal filed by the Makabayan bloc, lawyers and the opposition against the said extension. The extension was approved during a joint-session of the Congress on […]