Two commanders of the New People’s Army and six others surrendered here this week, a regional military official said Saturday.

A total of 35 children born with cleft-lip and palate benefitted from the free surgeries provided by the Western Mindanao Command and a non-government organization Friday in a military base here.

A New People’s Army errand was jailed for extorting P20,000 from a mayoral candidate -- as “access fee” to rebel enclaves during the campaign period --- in a sting here Friday.

The Blaans saw as “good sign” the visit of Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu to Tampakan town where there are copper deposits they want mined to bail them out from grinding poverty.

A drug suspect was killed while his cohort managed to escape in a sting in Barangay Pulo in San Isidro, Nueva Ecija on Thursday.

The military announced yesterday the surrender of a squad leader of the New People’s Army and seven Milisya ng Bayan members in Bukidnon.

The crime volume in the country dropped by nearly 14 percent last year, the Philippine National Police reported yesterday.

New COVID-19 cases in four provinces in Calabarzon are decreasing, a member of the OCTA Research Group said yesterday.

The Bureau of Customs and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency confiscated P2 million worth of illegal drugs sent from the Netherlands and Germany.

Confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa must be transferred to Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig following his escape attempt, the National Bureau of Investigation appealed to the Department of Justice.