(Eagle News) – Funds from the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, or 4Ps, meant to benefit the country’s poor, have been discovered in a camp of the communist rebel group, the New People’s Army (NPA). President Rodrigo Duterte himself bared this in a speech on Tuesday, when he said that the Pantawid Pamilya funds, still inside the envelopes, were found inside one NPA camp. “They recovered from an NPA camp envelopes containing the Pantawid,” Duterte […]
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Philippines, Communists sign indefinite ceasefire deal
by Pierre-Henry Deshayes OSLO, Norway (AFP) — The Philippine government and Communist guerrillas on Friday signed an indefinite ceasefire deal to facilitate peace talks aimed at ending one of Asia’s longest-running insurgencies. “This is a historic and unprecedented event … (but) there is still a lot of work to be done ahead,” President Rodrigo Duterte’s peace adviser Jesus Dureza said at a signing ceremony in Norway, which is mediating the talks. Both sides agreed […]





