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Lamitan City LGU helps fix houses destroyed by storm
COTABATO CITY (September 22, 2025) — The Lamitan City government distributed on Saturday, September 20, construction materials to families whose houses were damaged by the Tropical Storm Wipha, or Bagyong Crising, that ravaged the Philippines and other Asian countries last July. Radio reports on Monday, September 22, stated that the construction materials, comprised of corrugated
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Motorcycle crash victim, killed, robbed by bystanders
COTABATO CITY (September 21, 2025) — Policemen arrested on Saturday, September 20, a known drug dependent who, instead of helping a motorist who figured last week in an accident, killed and robbed the victim of his money and other belongings instead. Local executives in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte told reporters on Sunday, September
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BARMM supports new ASEAN cross-border anti-crime pact
COTABATO CITY (September 20, 2025) — Two Filipino lawyers, one of them from the Bangsamoro region, participated in a conference of prosecutors from 10 Southeast Asian countries in Indonesia early this week where they forged a compact binding their governments to cooperate in addressing cross-border crimes. Radio reports on Saturday, September 20, in Cotabato City
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UN agency embarks on pro-poor program in Cotabato province
COTABATO CITY (September 20, 2025) — An agency of the United Nations shall implement a community economic development and livelihood program in two barangays in Cotabato province, officials announced on Saturday, September 20. Provincial officials and Winston Aylmer Camariñas, who is overseeing the activities in Central Mindanao of the United Nations Development Programme, met at
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217 villagers in Cotabato town benefit from medical mission
COTABATO CITY (September 18, 2025) — More than 200 residents of Barangay Anick in Pigcawayan town in Cotabato, including children and pregnant women, benefitted from a medical mission of their provincial government on Wednesday, September 17. Local executives and Shirlyn Macasarte-Villanueva, an incumbent Sangguniang Panlalawigan member, separately told reporters on Thursday, September 18, that the
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2 dead, 3 hurt in Cotabato City ambush
COTABATO CITY (September 16, 2025) — Two were killed while three others were wounded in an ambush in a busy thoroughfare in this city at about noon Tuesday, September 16. Local executives and officials of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region told reporters on Tuesday afternoon that Mike Pusaka, husband of Fahima Pasawiran Pusaka, who
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Alleged Maute terrorist arrested in Kidapawan City
COTABATO CITY (September 16, 2025) — Policemen arrested on Sunday, September 14, in Kidapawan City an alleged member of the defunct Maute terror group wanted for crimes related to its May to October 2017 siege of Marawi City in Lanao del Sur. The 43-year-old Jamal Solaiman Romato yielded peacefully when policemen from different units of
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P2.7-M worth shabu seized in Maguindanao del Sur checkpoint
COTABATO CITY (September 16, 2025) —- Policemen seized P2.7 million worth of shabu found inside a car of two couriers intercepted at a checkpoint in the center of Shariff Aguak town in Maguindanao del Sur on Sunday afternoon, September 14. Municipal officials and traditional Moro leaders told reporters on Monday, September 15, that they shall