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LANAO DEL SUR --- Maranaw peasants in two Lanao del Sur towns stand to benefit from a P220 million road project that would connect their enclaves to major trading hubs in the province and in Bukidnon.Lanao del Sur is a component province of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) while Bukidnon is inside Administrative Region 10.ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman and Lanao del Sur’s chief executive, Gov. Mamintal Adiong, Jr.

DATU SALIBO, Maguindanao -- Close to 12,000 individuals have been displaced by floods in Maguindanao as a result of torrential rain brought about by Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone the past week, disaster officials today said. The Office of Civil Defense and the Humanitarian Emergency Action and Response Team (HEART) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), said nine towns of Maguindanao were severely affected but no displacement of locals.

KORONADAL CITY - A highway in Banga, South Cotabato known as accident prone has claimed another life after two motorcycles collided head on Friday night, authorities said. Killed due to head and body injuries was Julius Aspa, 43, resident of Banga while his back rider, Christopher Asong, 27 was seriously wounded. Aspa was driving his Honda RS 125 motorbike along the highway in Barangay Liwanay when his bike collided head on with another motorbike driven by Joey de Guira, 25 of Barangay Kusan, also in Banga.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - A village council member in a remote village of Magpet, North Cotabato has accused his village chair for violently attacking him during council session.The attack happened after Village CouncilorBoy Mandamlay raised a question during session why it was always he who has been sent by the village council to Army seminar on communist revolutionary tax collection. Why always me, why not our chair and other members attend the seminar as well? Mandamlay asked the council duringsession.

COTABATO CITY - A
fire destroyed the Cotabato City Evangelical Church and Agape
Schoolalong Makakua
Street at dawn Wednesday.

COTABATO CITY - The Cotabato City governmentsuspended classes Wednesday in elementary and secondary schools, both in public and private due to inclement weather.Lawyer Cynthia Guiani Sayadi, Cotabato City administrator, in a text message to DXMS Radyo Bida,announced the suspension of classes as early as 5 a.m.The city government also suspended classes Tuesday afternoon for elementary and high school due to day-long rain over the city and its environs.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Professor Miriam Coronel-Ferrer of the government panel talking with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is still hopeful the passage of Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) will meet the ‘deadline.’ The deadline they set is before the filing of the Certificate of Candidacy (CoC) in October for the 2016 elections, she explained.

COTABATO CITY - Dr. Kadil Sinolinding, Jrregional health secretary in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is contemplating of filing charges against the country's second largest airline company for negligence.Sinolinding's 12-year-old son who traveled by himselffrom Cotabato to ManilaMonday on board Cebu Pacific.Sinolinding said his son was not new to traveling alone. He even traveled alone by plane from the United States to Manila to Cotabato.The regional secretary sent off his son Monday at the Cotabato airport and said he was taken cared of by CebPac Cotabato crew.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao -- More than 500 aspirants took the Philippine Military Academy Entrance Examination (PMAEE) on Sunday at the 6th Infantry Dviision, the biggest number of examinees who took the test at the 6th Infantry Division.About 517 examines arrived to try their luck at joining the country’s premier military school. Out of 517 applicants, 378 were males and 139 were females. The number of examinees this year is greater than last years 400for Central Mindanao, Capt. Joan Petinglay, 6th ID spokesperson said.

DAVAO CITY -Presidential prospect and Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte is expected to share his vision for Philippine agriculture when he visits the rural town of M'lang, North Cotabato which celebrates the farmers' week and foundation today.Duterte, the only Presidential hopeful who is considered to have a deep understanding of agriculture, has been advocating for greater government intervention in food production, including the marketing of farmers' produce.His proposal that irrigation services should be provided free to the country's rice farmers to encourage them to produce more is expecte