Businessman Crisologo Saavedra filed last week an amended complaint to have the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas include Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Arturo Radaza in its investigation on the purchase of streetlamps for the Asean summit. (Sun.Star Cebu/Ruel Rosello)
MANILA -- Soldiers have reported uncovering nine burial sites where dozens of victims of the alleged New People's Army's (NPA) purges in the late 1980s were supposedly buried, a military spokesman reported Sunday.
Army spokesman Ernesto Torres said members of the Army 43rd Infantry Battalion (IB) were led to the gravesites on March 21 by informants he refused to identify.
MANILA -- One of the two contractors who delivered lampposts for the Asean summit in Cebu asked the government Sunday to honor their contract and pay them at least P104 million.
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- An election official said Sunday that police here lack personnel to guard the conduct of the May 14 elections in the island province of Sulu.
ILIGAN CITY -- A 26-year-old graduating law student of Xavier University who was reported missing since March 22 was found dead Saturday in a remote area in Taraka, Lanao del Sur.
