MANILA, Philippines — Environmental officers in Cotabato have documented a rare instance of an endangered large flying fox nursing her pup during a routine wildlife monitoring trip earlier this month. The behavior was recorded by the Matalam…
MANILA, Philippines — Approximately 160,000 flying foxes were recorded in a forested area of Banisilan, Cotabato, after a two-day population survey and roosting site evaluation conducted last month. The monitoring activity was carried out by the Department…
COTABATO CITY — At least 22 people, including children, were injured in a grenade attack in Matalam town, Cotabato province, at about midnight Wednesday, New Year’s Eve, December 31. Police in Soccsksargen, Cotabato, condemned the grenade attack…
KIDAPAWAN CITY — Rising temperature in Cotabato province has led to the deaths of at least six residents of a remote village in Makilala town, due to heat stroke, reports from village officials showed. The victims were…
COTABATO CITY — In Cotabato province, heavy rains and strong winds that battered Kabacan town amid excruciating heat on Maundy Thursday left 85 houses destroyed, the local disaster office said. Kabacan Mayor Evangeline Pascua-Guzman said four villages…
KIDAPAWAN CITY –(UPDATED, March 26, 2024) At least 17 individuals died in a road accident in Cotabato involving a passenger van and a dump truck. The accident occurred along the national highway in Purok 2, Barangay Luhong, Antipas…
KIDAPAWAN CITY — The local government has placed Kabacan town in Cotabato province under a state of calamity as 10 of its 24 villages were flooded after the Kabacan river swelled due to torrential rains last week. Vice…
MANILA, Philippines — A police officer was arrested in the province of Cotabato after a video of him “mauling and physically maltreating” his live-in partner went viral early this week. In a report issued Wednesday, police said…
COTABATO CITY, Maguindanao del Norte, Philippines — A Catholic priest transporting an image of the dead Christ (Santo Entierro) from Digos City in Davao del Sur on Monday was held at a checkpoint in Kidapawan City after…
A man from North Cotabato who skillfully transformed a casket into a one-of-a-kind barbecue grill recently went viral on social media for his clever creation. Last Feb. 27, Vincent Levi Bayona Doletin, who runs a funeral home business in Pigcawayan town,…
PIKIT, Cotabato, Philippines —The municipal government here on Wednesday ordered a three-day suspension of classes at all levels here following the shooting of three high school students on their way home on Monday, the latest in a…
On Aug. 23, 2020, Bae Merlin Ansabu Celis, a lumad Manobo leader, was brutally murdered in Magpet, Cotabato. “Four unknown men shot her, slashed her throat, and removed her eyes with a machete,” per one report. Celis…
