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Cotabato City on lockdown
Kidapawan City is also placed under community quarantine

After hotel collapse, Kidapawan mayor urges businesses to inspect buildings
(UPDATED) Post-earthquake, Kidapawan Mayor Joseph Evangelista admits the city does not even know how to demolish the 6-story Eva Hotel

LOOK: Buildings destroyed by magnitude 6.5 quake that struck parts of Mindanao
This happened just two days after a stronger magnitude 6.6 tremor rocked the same area that killed at least 6 people and injured hundreds in the region

Kidapawan church welcomes evacuees after magnitude 6.6 earthquake
Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle also urges other churches from various dioceses to lend a helping hand to communities in need

Arrest warrant out against suspects in Kidapawan broadcaster's killing
Judge Henelinda Molina Diaz has ordered the arrest of Sotero Jacolbe Jr (alias Jun Jacolbe) and Junell Jane Andagkit Poten (alias Junell Gerozaga), according to the Presidential Task Force on Media Security

Court junks drug charges vs North Cotabato state college president
Kidapawan City Regional Trial Court Judge Henelinda Diaz says the search warrants used to conduct the raid on the home of then CFCST president Samson Molao are invalid

Journalist gunned down in Kidapawan City
Brigada News-Kidapawan City radio broadcaster Eduardo Dizon is shot dead by unidentified suspects along the national highway of Kidapawan City

Daniel Quizon captures Kidapawan Chess Open title
The 13-year-old Quizon's win is a fitting follow-up to his second place finish in an international youth chess tournament in China last week

Can you help Palaro athlete's family get home to Kidapawan?
Matthew Jade Tapang s family is going back to Kidapawan after his quest for gold in Palarong Pambansa ends abruptly

Abrupt end of Palaro journey for boxer whose parents drove via tricycle
Matthew Jade Tapang hit his head during the weigh in for bronze His parents who traveled 1 000 km via tricycle need money to go home

From Kidapawan to Antique: Palaro boxer's parents drive tricycle
Parents of young boxing athlete Matthew Jade Tapang drive more than a thousand kilometers from Kidapawan to Antique to support him at the Palarong Pambansa 2017

A year after Kidapawan clash, groups condemn killings of farmers
Since June last year 16 farmers Lumad and land rights defenders have already been killed says Pedro Arnado chair of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas Southern Mindanao Region

North Cotabato farmers decry killings, harassment over land dispute
The murder of farmers group leader Wilerme Dorado Agorde in front of his grandchildren in February further fuels suspicion that farmers locked in a land dispute with a state university are being silenced

50 recaptured, over 100 still on the run in PH's biggest jailbreak
UPDATED The BJMP says 13 high value targets – 7 Muslim rebels and 6 organized crime gang members – were not among the 158 inmates who bolted a North Cotabato jail

Pork barrel, Kidapawan jailbreak, Marcelino | Evening wRap
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Trump inauguration, Kidapawan jailbreak, Marcelino | Midday wRap
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#ThewRap: Things you need to know, January 4, 2017
Hello Here s a roundup of news you need to know this Wednesday

Over 100 inmates escape in Kidapawan jail attack
UPDATED At least one jail personnel is killed during the attack

LOOK BACK: Philippine protests that turned bloody
Filipinos have the constitutional right to peaceably assemble but these protests against the government sometimes end in bloody clashes with police

A Filipino farmer’s plea: ‘Support us, love us’
In a forum hosted by the Asian Development Bank farmers talk about the problems they face and the possible solutions that government and public sector can do

IP leaders hold tribal ritual to save Mt Apo
During the sacred ritual which sought forgiveness from the tribes ancestors for the disrespect of Mt Apo North Cotabato 2nd District Representative Nancy Catamco is named a Diwata or protector

How El Niño threatens Southeast Asia’s food security now and in the future
People’s lives have practically worsened says Wilhelmina Pelegrina Greenpeace Southeast Asia Food and Ecological Agriculture Coordinator

The time has come to break free from fossil fuel
While we have been so active in climate change negotiations we have to match it with actually protecting and conserving our environment We have all the progressive laws and policies but the problem is implementation

Pumili ka: The Philippines beyond the 2016 elections
The future of this nation is neither in the hands of one man nor in the hands of 54 4 million voters It is in the hands of 100 million Filipinos

#PHVote: Mindanao after May 9
Decades of neglect violence and impunity in Mindanao have widened inequality in the country spurring a loathing for imperial Manila

What does the most vote-rich province want from the next president?
Cebu is the most vote rich province in the Philippines with about 2 7 million registered voters

Young, old Sumilao farmers march for Leni Robredo
Nanay Linda Ligmon and Bajekjek Orquillos are two of the Sumilao farmers who returned to the streets to support Leni Robredo

Call for justice: Prevent a repeat of the Kidapawan bloodshed
Now is the time to support each other fight for what is right and change society for the better

Duterte’s lead, Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, Prince | 6PM wRap
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Court orders arrest of North Cotabato governor
The 3 graft charges against Governor Emmylou Taliño Mendoza are bailable

Kidapawan farmers file charges vs Aquino allies, police
Our struggle for food land and justice is legitimate and we will pursue justice in every possible way one of the complainants vows

Sumilao farmers march for Leni Robredo, hungry Kidapawan farmers
On April 22 the farmers from Bukidnon reach Cebu their 8th stop on the journey to Manila

Data leak, Aquino on Kidapawan, Prince | 12PM wRap
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President Aquino: Police not at fault in Kidapawan clash
He says the government should run after organizers who rallied the farmers to exploit the drought issue

Comelec rules, Kidapawan probe, Great Barrier Reef | 12PM wRap
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Gov't should be blamed for hunger, violence in Kidapawan – senators
Government agencies reiterate that they had done what they could

WATCH: Senate hearing on Kidapawan drought protest
Watch the recording of the Senate hearing on the Kidapawan protest on Wednesday April 20

El Niño drying up Cebu’s 'Little Amsterdam'
Cebu province recently declared state of calamity due to dry spell

Philippine Red Cross marks 69 years, looks to the future
The Philippine Red Cross recounts what it has done over the years and strives to further live up to its vision of providing service to humanity

76 Kidapawan farmers released, 2 more to post bail
Police release the farmers over two weeks after their arrest

Kidapawan dispersal showed 'breakdown' of protocols – De Lima
The former justice secretary says the first responders to disperse the protesting farmers on April 1 were armed personnel – violative of existing protocols

Gordon on Kidapawan protest: ‘That’s all lack of vision’
The problem with this government is they have all the laws and they don’t enforce the law ’ Richard Gordon says at Rappler’s ‘The Leader I Want’ senatorial debate
Kidapawan and the rice riots
Negotiations were cut short Riot police were unprepared and outnumbered Cops carried long arms This is the story behind the deadly protests in Kidapawan City

Money raised for detained Kidapawan farmers, but no ID, no bail
Human rights lawyer Gregorio Andolana tells MindaNews that barangay certifications would have sufficed as IDs but some officials in government demand other government issued valid ID

#BigasHindiBala: An outpouring of global support for drought protest
Here s a roundup of protests held in various cities around the globe since the bloody Kidapawan dispersal on April 1

Cops 'may have used unnecessary lethal force' in Kidapawan
An international human rights group is calling on the Philippine government to conduct transparent and impartial investigations

Graft charges, Myanmar prisoners, Mayweather Sr | 6PM wRap
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Kapunan: Address drought to avoid another Kidapawan incident
The human rights lawyer says the farmers protest that turned bloody was a result of the government s failure to address the effects of drought and climate change

Kidapawan tragedy, Brussels blasts, Forbes power women | 12PM wRap
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North Cotabato governor indicted for graft
Governor Emmylou Taliño Mendoza used provincial funds to buy diesel from the Taliño Shell Station which is owned by her mother says the Ombudsman
