BTA bill to preserve Marawi City’s historical, cultural properties

COTABATO CITY - Bangsamoro lawmakers are championing a bill that seeks to establish a comprehensive database of cultural properties lost during the infamous siege in 2017 in an effort to preserve and protect the cultural heritage of Marawi City.

BTA bill seeks to create IDPs resettlement, rehabilitation framework action plan

COTABATO CITY — A proposed bill which outlines the guiding principles for the Rehabilitation Action Plan and the Livelihood Restoration Plan has been introduced by MP Ali Sangki, the main author of the proposed law.

Youth leader successful with her mushrooms business

MARAWI CITY - Sittie Asia Mai, a youth leader who pursued having a mushroom business, would have laughed if you told her six years ago that she would lead not one but two projects to insurmountable success, but in four years with Plan International's USAID-funded Marawi Response Project (MRP), she found an advocacy she believes in and a voice to speak out.

IOM, South Korea to the rescue

MARAWI CITY - When the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KoICA) came knocking on their door, the fifteen members of the Banga Community Working Group (CWG) knew that this wasn't just a business opportunity but a chance to give back. 

Perseverance, resiliency keep Muslim woman going on

MARAWI CITY - When you think resiliency, you think Filipino, and no community embodies that better than the displaced residents of Marawi City.

From enterprise to coop, the Al-Hilal story

MARAWI CITY – The Al-Hilal Enterprises was doing fairly well for itself – it had built a reliable consumer base within its community, established a healthy relationship with its customers, and was the go-to market due to its low wholesale prices.

Women power persevere

MARAWI CITY - Imagine teaming up with a bunch of people you barely know, starting a business with them, only to get a couple goats in return. A pretty anticlimactic deal, but that was exactly what happened to Bai Mona Mangotara and 31 other women when they first met at the Department of Agriculture at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Agrarian Reform in Cotabato City.

Halal industry pushed

MARAWI CITY - The Raheemah Peace Weavers Producer Cooperative and the Save the Children Philippines have banded together to step up their campaign for a sustainable halal industry in the province of Lanao del Sur. 

Another senior army official drowns while scuba diving

PAGADIAN CITY – The deputy commander of the Philippine Army’s 103^rd Infantry Brigade drowned while scuba diving off Misamis Oriental’s Initao town, reports said.

Terrorist killed, 9 others wounded in Marawi fighting

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Security forces killed a pro-ISIS sub-leader and wounded his wife in a fierce battle that also injured 7 policemen and an army soldier in Marawi City, a stronghold of the notorious Islamist group Daulah Islamiya.

DENR builds material recovery facility in Marawi

MARAWI CITY – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources said it has begun constructing a central material recovery facility here which is part of the Solid Waste Management project.

Ancient Lake Lanao remains pristine

MARAWI CITY – The ancient Lake Lanao, the largest lake Mindanao, and the second largest in the Philippines and counted as one of the 20 ancient lakes in the world, remains pristine and its water clean, according to a recent study.

Saudi sends food aid to poor Marawi residents

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Saudi Arabia donated some 5,000 food baskets to poor Muslim families in Marawi City in the southern Philippine province of Lanao del Sur.

First Duterte crushed Marawi, now he is ignoring it

SIX MONTHS after the end of the 2017 battle of Marawi in the southern Philippines, residents were allowed into ground zero for just a few hours to retrieve whatever they could of their possessions destroyed in the five months of fighting and bombing. But they could not return, until today, to their ruined lakeside city, to pick up the pieces of their lives.

Kailangan wasakin ang Marawi: Duterte

INAMIN NI Pangulong Duterte ang pagwasak sa Marawi City sa kasagsagan ng labanan kontra mga teroristang grupo ang tanging paraang upang mapuksa ang mga ito.

Filipino ISIS sub-leader surrenders in Marawi City

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – A Filipino ISIS sub-leader involved in bloody battle with security forces in the southern Philippines has surrendered to the military in the battle-scarred city of Marawi in the Muslim province of Lanao del Sur, officials said Wednesday.

Marawi war survivors get psycho-social support

ILIGAN CITY - Over 2000 refugees who were victims of fighting between security and rebel forces in Marawi City on May 2017 were given psycho-social support (PSS) under the Gawad Angat BAYan (GABAY) Program of the Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK).

Stranded Iligan City workers return home from Lanao Sur

LANAO DEL SUR – Six workers stranded in the town of Lumba-Bayabao in Lanao del Sur province have finally returned home in Iligan City through the efforts of local government officials from the two areas.

Lanao del Sur begins GCQ 2 days behind schedule

MARAWI CITY – Lanao del Sur province on Sunday begun implementing general community quarantine, two days later after the national government released the list of areas under the GCQ.

Soldiers bring home 250 stranded university students in Lanao Sur

LANAO DEL SUR – Over 250 students stranded in their dormitories in Lanao del Sur province finally returned to their homes Friday after army soldiers provided vehicles and assisted the local government and university officials in bringing them to safely to 25 different towns here.