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(UPDATED)COTABATO CITY
(Sept. 11/NDBC) – Hoursafter
the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law was submitted by Malacanang to Congress,
renegade Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) tried anew but failed to take over Army detachments in the borders of Maguindanao and North Cotabato.As a result, two soldiers were killed and six others wounded, according to Maj. Gen. Edmundo Pangilinan.Pangilinan, chief of the 6th Infantry Division, said more than 10 BIFF members were killed, four of the dead were recovered by local officials.BIFF, armed with assault rifles and rifle

MLANG, North
Cotabato (Sept. 11/NDBC) – Residents of Mlang and North Cotabato who wish to work
abroad, here’s good news for you.

A Manila-based
recruitment agency has prepared a total of 1,337 jobs in Saudi Arabia, from
carpenters, plumbers, electricians, engineers, bus and truck drivers to heavy
equipment operators and mechanics, coming from the province and Davao City.

COTABATO CITY (Sept. 10/NDBC) -- Atleast 800 families or about 4,000 individuals have been affected by floods that hit a remote barangay in Sultan Kudarat province Monday night, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.Workers of themunicipal disaster relief team of a coastal town in Sultan Kudarat province are busy attending to the needs of families displaced by recent floods,The flooding occurred at 9 p.m.

COTABATO CITY (Sept.10/NDBC) -- Officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are confident of the enactment as is” of the draft Basic Bangsamoro Law (BBL) which Malacañang officially endorsed to Congress on Wednesday.ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman and his regional secretaries, who witnessed President Benigno Aquino III’s turnover of the draft BBL to Senate President Franklin Drilon and House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr.

The submission of the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law to the leaders of the Philippine Congress today, 10 September 2014, brings us to the next, crucial stage in our roadmap to the Bangsamoro political entityand the formal legislative process. The proposed BBL has transposed into legal form and further elaborated on the various annexes -- notably the Wealth-sharing and Power-sharing Annexes -- to the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB). It builds on the foundation provided by the past organic acts on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

(UPDATE)MANILA
(Sept. 10/NDBC) – President Aquino today witnessed the turned over the draft
Bangsamoro Basic Law to Senate President Franklin Drilon and House Speaker Jose
Belmonte in ceremonies at Malacanang.

Aquino
said he was confident the draft law was constitutional after Mohaqher Iqbal,
chair of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) that drafted the proposal,
handed over the document to Drilon and Belmonte.

Today, we reach a turning point in our national quest for peace in Mindanao. His Excellency President Benigno S. Aquino III has submitted to the leadership of the House of Representatives and the Philippine Senate a document embodying the administration’s proposal on the provisions of the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law. This draft embodies the substance and spirit of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro that was signed by the government and MILF negotiating panels last March 27 in Malacañang Palace.

COTABATO CITY (Sept. 10/NDBC) - Strong economic growth in the Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM) has paved the way for the coming ofmore investors in the region, the Regional Board of Investments (RBOI) today said.In a joint
Board of Governors’ and Management Committee (ManCom) Meeting in Davao City on Tuesday, three new firms were given the green light for
registration by the RBOI.

KORONADAL CITY (Sept. 10/NDBC)-— For failure to vote for two consecutive elections, at least 10,000 voters was deactivated in Koronadal City. Out of the 78,559 registered voters in Koronadal, 10,442 were deactivated,” Lawyer Richard Opinion, Koronadal city election officer, told DXOM-FM Radyo BidaKoronadal, Tuesday. To avoid inconvenience and overcrowding in Comelec offices in October 2015 deadline set by Comelec, Opinion appealed to the registered and deactivated voters to register now.

COTABATO CITY
(Sept. 9/NDBC) – Business leaders in Mindanao have urged Congress to fast-track the
discussions and deliberations then pass the Bangsamoro Basic Law to complete
the peace process in southern Philippines, a peace advocate said Tuesday in a
statement.
The call came
a day before the much awaited submission by President Aquino of the draft bill
to House leaders Wednesday morning in a ceremonial hand over in Malacanang.