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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

WEATHER TODAY | The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), an area where winds coming from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres meet, will affect Palawan and Mindanao. According to PAGASA, cloudy skies with light to moderate rains and isolated thunderstorms are expected over Mindanao, Western Visayas and the province of Palawan. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated thunderstorms.

KORONADAL CITY – At least 24 persons have been downed by noodles and rice Saturday in
what officials believed was another case of food poisoning in a mountain town
in South Cotabato, officials said Sunday.

The victims are
now confined in a private hospital in Barangay Edwards, T’boli town in South
Cotabato, according to Romar Azarcon, Church leader from Surallah.

Inter-tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Visayas and Mindanao.This will bring rain showers over Mindanao, Western and Central Visayas and over the provinces of Palawan.The rest of the Luzon including Metro Manila will have good weather apart from isolated rain showers.Meanwhile, Severe Tropical Storm Soudelor was located at 1,570 kilometer from Philippine Area of Responsibility(PAR), moving westward at 25-kph. It is forecast to enter PAR on Wednesday.

MANILA -- Oil firms are expected to cut pump prices of their products by no less than 50 centavos per liter on gasoline next week as global prices continue to tumble due to oil glut in the international market.In an advisory, Eastern Petroleum President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Fernando Martinez said that diesel and gasoline (per liter) prices may decrease by close to a peso and more than 50 centavos.He noted that world oil prices continue to be low until August -- due to the oversupply situation in the market.However, Martinez said that oil prices for September delivery is expecte

COTABATO CITY – The Cotabato Light and Power Company
(Cotabato Light) has started implementing rotational brownout in its franchise
area, the power firm announced today.

Arlene Hipega, Cotabato Light corporate communications
officer, told DXMS Radyo Bida that the five hour scheduled brownout was
rationed in all feeders in its franchised area.

COTABATO CITY - A magnitude 4.8 earthquake hit the coastal towns of Sultan Kudarat province early Wednesday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.In a statement sent to and//www.ndbcnews.com.ph www.ndbcnews.com.ph , Phivolcs said the epicenter of the 2:51 a.m.