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APRUB – Department of Social Welfare and Development

Noong 1915 binuo ang DSWD kung saan Public Welfare Board o PWD ang naging unang pangalan nito. Taong 1976, ito ay ginawang Department of Social Service and Development (DSSD) sa bisa ng Presidential Decree No.944 sa ilalim ng pamumuno ng dating pangulong Ferdinand Marcos. Ang Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) ang siyang napro-protektahan at napa-pangalagaan ang kapwa mga Pilipino at mabawasan ang kahirapan.

Uploaders of Mamasapano videos, now under NBI custody

The two uploaders and the cellphones they used in uploading the videos of the Mamasapano tragedy are now in the hands of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). NBI Anti-Cybercrime Division Chief Ronald Aguto confirmed and was able to identify them after the forensic examination, yesterday. The first video showed a wounded Special Action Force (SAF) member being shot twice in the head at very close range by an unidentified gunman. Another video was then uploaded […]

BIFF will not return SAF guns

The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) will not return the guns that they retrieved from Special Action Force (SAF) commandos in Mamasapano, saying that they got said armaments after defeating the SAF commandos.

AFP will buy drones from US

With President Barack Obama’s offer to sell drones to allied nations for their fight against terrorism, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is studying the possibility of buying drones from the United States (US).