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KORONADAL CITY - Sen. Chiz Escudero today visited DXOM-AM Radyo Bida Koronadal for a short interview about his views on South Cotabato.Escudero was in South Cotabato along with Sen. Grace Poe asguests of honor during the culminating program of T'nalak Festival and South Cotabato's foundation anniversary.A Poe-Escudero tandem is emerging ahead of the 2016 national elections.Escudero was asked Bakit puti po ang suot ninyo? He replied smilingand Para hindi malagyan ng kulay politika ang aming mga ginagawa at ang aming pagbisita.

KORONADAL CITY - Senator Grace Poe is treated with Rambutan by DXOM-AM Radyo Bida Koronadal station manager Agnes Myra Pinol during the senator's visit to NDBC station Saturday.Poe was among the guests of the 49th foundation anniversary of South Cotabato.

COTABATO CITY – A man is now in critical condition at a government hospital here after
he was hit by a stray bullet at the height of Eid’l Fitr celebration Thursday
night, police said today.

Interviewed by DXMS Radyo Bida,Senior Supt. Rex Anongos, Cotabato City police director,
said Rommel Abdul Rashad, 36, of Barangay Rosary Heights Mother, was resting in
his house at 8:40 p.m. when a bullet landed on the roof of his house and pierce
on his head.

COTABATO CITY - The Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation (NDBC) news website and//www.ndbcnews.com.ph www.ndbcnews.com.ph is celebrating Eid'l al-Fitr with the Muslim World on the occasion of the culmination of the fasting month of Ramadhan.Eid Mubarak!

Muslims prepare to celebrate Eud'l Fitr to end fasting month of Ramadhan

KIDAPAWAN CITY -A former budget officer of a local government unit in a town in North Cotabato was terminated from public service for her alleged poor performance and failure to submit performance evaluation sheets for two years, starting July 2013. The order to drop from rolls former Magpet municipal government budget officer Erly Roque-Baudi came from Magpet Mayor Florenito Gonzaga. Gonzaga, in his Office Order Number 002 dated July 7, cited three reasons for doing such.

KORONADAL CITY - Fifteen persons, 13 students and two teachers, were hospitalized after eating the famous pastil, aMaguindanaoan Muslim dish made of steamed rice topped with shredded chicken adobo flakes.All the victims are now confined at theSouth Cotabato Provincial Hospital (SCPH), hours after eating Pastil sold to them by a student of Sultan Kudarat State University-Lutayan campus in Barangay Blingkong, Lutayan, Sultan Kudarat.Victims told DXOM-AM Radyo Bida in Koronadal City that the pastil was their lunch sold to them by a classmate who was also hospitalized.PO2 Romulo Lorania,

KORONADAL CITY -- Two teachers and 13 students of Sultan Kudarat State University - Lutayan campus were hospitalized after eating Pastil, a Muslim food Wednesday afternoon.The students and teachers who complained of severe stomach pain and dizziness were rushed to the South Cotabato Provincial Hospital at past 5 p.m.They said the pastil were bought from a side walk vendor outside the school campus.Medical officials are still determining if it was a case of food poisoning.

KORONADAL CITY - Two children, aged 5 and 1, were charred to deathwhen afire of still unknown origin razed a residential house in Purok Libertad,Barangay Top Land, Koronadal City Wednesday morning, officials said.Trapped and charredinside the house made of concrete andlight materials were 5-year-oldJohn Fritz Atubang and his younger sister, known as IC, one year old.

ESPERANZA, Sultan Kudarat - Two women, including a minor, who wereallegedly used as sex slaves by a man in Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat managed toescape Tuesday, police said.Police Senior Inspector Esbon Llamasares, Esperanza police chief, said the suspect who was later arrested befriended the two girls and extended help.But they were brought to the suspect's house and tied after allegedly molesting them.The survivors told police the suspect untied them one day.