Army official vows to complete mission vs. Reds before 'deadline'
A top-ranking military official has vowed an intensified drive against insurgency along with his counterparts in the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC) in Region 3 (Central Luzon) to finish its mission and objectives "within the time frame"
PNA

NPA recruitment to prosper under UP Security bill: youth group
The bill institutionalizing the 1989 University of the Philippines (UP) - Department of National Defense (DND) accord into the UP Charter will allow communist terrorist groups to continue recruiting more students into the armed conflict.
PNA

4 rebels surrender in Surigao
The military identified them as alias Beboy/Ervin and two minors, both 17, who were all members of Guerilla Front (GF) 16, North Eastern Mindanao Regional Committee (NEMRC) who surrendered to the soldiers in Barangay Mahanub, Gigaquit, Surigao del Norte on Jan. 16. 
Mindanao Times

NPA rebel killed, high-powered guns seized in Sorsogon clash
A New People’s Army (NPA) rebel was killed while high-powered guns and an anti-personnel mine were seized after a three-hour armed clash between the rebels and government forces in Barangay Sta. Lourdes, Barcelona town in Sorsogon province on Jan. 21.
PNA

Peace talks

Incidents/Operations 
 

MARAWI 

Isko Moreno says he will finish Marawi City rehab by December 2022
Moreno, citing his projects in Manila where he built housing projects on government land, said he will do the same for Marawi City which was left in ruins during the conflict between the military and Islamic State-linked militants in 2017.
Inquirer

Rehabilitation updates

WORLD 

Airstrikes kill 70 people and knock out internet in Yemen
At least 70 people were killed and more than 130 injured when an airstrike hit a detention center in Yemen on Friday, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said, as the Saudi-led coalition continued to ramp up its deadly offensive on rebels in the war-torn nation.
CNN Philippines | Al Jazeera | New York Times

Taliban say Oslo talks with West will ‘transform atmosphere of war’
A Taliban delegation arrived Saturday in Norway for three days of talks with Western diplomats and members of Afghan civil society, which it hopes will help “transform the atmosphere of war” in Afghanistan.
Inquirer

Taliban says bombers target minivan in Afghanistan, 7 dead
A bomb attached to a packed minivan exploded in Afghanistan’s western Herat province on Saturday, killing at least seven civilians and wounding nine others, Taliban officials said.
AP News

Deadly ISIS prison break attempt fuels fears of the group's resurgence
At least seven fighters from the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces were killed when ISIS attempted to break thousands of its fighters out of a Syrian prison on Thursday, an attack underlining concerns the terror group could be quietly resurging.
CNN Philippines

MAGUINDANAO AND COTABATO CITY 

23 ‘terrorists’ surrender in Maguindanao, North Cotabato
Nineteen members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and four Dawlah Islamiya gunmen turned over assorted firearms to the 90th Infantry and First Mechanized Battalions.
Philstar

LANAO PROVINCES

NPA remnants in Bukidnon scampering toward Lanao Sur
The Eastern Mindanao Command (Eastmincom) said the remaining combatants of the New People's Army (NPA) in Bukidnon province have moved to the borders of Lanao del Sur.
PNA

BASILAN

Ex-Abu Sayyaf bandits drop guns for farm tools
A peculiar morning for Motong Indama involves taking the rounds in a 3-hectare vegetable garden in Baguindan village here, inspecting the condition of the plants and surveying which ones have become mature for harvesting.
Inquirer

SULU

TAWI-TAWI 

Drugs, personal affairs possible motives in killing of 2 men in Aloguinsan town
The Aloguinsan municipal police continue to coordinate with their counterparts from Cebu City in verifying the alleged involvement in illegal drugs of the two men from the city whose bodies were found in the town on Thursday morning, January 20, 2022. 
Inquirer

Operations/Incidents

P5.1 million shabu seized in Pasay, Caloocan
Operatives of the police Drug Enforcement Group (PDEG) confiscated P5.1 million worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu in separate stings in Pasay and Caloocan on Friday.
Philstar

Police shoot her son dead. The funeral parlor says he died of sepsis.
Joy Anne is forced by the funeral parlor to say her son died of an infection. She knows the police killed him.
Rappler

BURIED JUSTICE | How investigations die in Duterte’s drug war
For the 4 families whose dead have been exhumed, it is a bitter homecoming. Five years on, justice continues to be out of reach, investigations languishing.
Rappler

Recovery and Rehabilitation

ILLICIT FIREARMS, EXPLOSIVES, AND AMMUNITION

2 held for gunrunning in Makati
Quoting a police report, Silvio said the suspects belong to a criminal group operating in southern Metro Manila.
Philstar

277 held for gun ban violation
Fifteen of those arrested were from the National Capital Region and six from Calabarzon. The other violators were from Central Luzon, Central Visayas, Ilocos and Eastern Visayas.
Philstar

Leader of carnapping group caught with firearm, grenade in Taguig
The police arrested a suspected leader of a carnapping group for possession of a firearm and a grenade in violation of the nationwide gun ban in Taguig on Friday, Jan. 21.
Manila Bulletin

CROSS-BORDER TRADING/ SMUGGLING/ COUNTERFEIT GOODS  

BOC-10 chief warns smugglers' attempts in defrauding gov't anew
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) 10 (Northern Mindanao) has warned suspected smugglers anew that they will not get away with their attempts to defraud the government.
PNA
 

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

KIDNAPPING/ ABDUCTION

ILLEGAL GAMBLING

ILLICIT FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS/ EXTORTION

ILLEGAL LOGGING

Press Freedom/ Freedom of expression

Task force backs arming of journalists
The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) is backing the decision of some members of media organizations to arm themselves as protection against threats.
Philstar

Martial Law 

COVID-19

Cases

DOH tallies 30,552 new COVID-19 cases, over 41,000 recoveries
The DOH said 95% or 41,471 of the new infections were detected within the last 14 days. Calabarzon is now the top contributing region with 5,991, followed closely by Metro Manila with 5,989, and Central Luzon with 2,563.
CNN Philippines

COVID-19 cases ‘surging’ in 7 highly-urbanized cities — OCTA Research
Data shared by OCTA Research fellow Guido David showed that COVID-19 cases are “surging in Baguio City, Iloilo City, Cebu City, Lapu-Lapu City, Tacloban City, Davao City, and CDO (Cagayan de Oro).”
Inquirer

Department of Health

DOH: Too early to say if Metro Manila can shift to Alert Level 2 in February
The Department of Health (DOH) said it is still too early to say whether Metro Manila can deescalate to Alert Level 2 next month.
CNN Philippines

IATF/NTF COVID-19 

Employees’ Compensation Commission pauses COVID-19 aid program due to backlog
The Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) has temporarily halted online applications for its COVID-19 assistance program due to pending requests from 2021, ECC executive director Stella Zipagan-Banawis said in a Laging Handa briefing on Saturday, January 22.
Rappler

Regions

Luzon including NCR 

Visayas 

Mindanao

World 

Data shows U.S. mass shootings continue unabated
The United States saw up to 17 mass shootings by Jan. 15 in the new year, Cuba-based news agency Prensa Latin reported over the weekend.
PTV News

Incidents and Violations 

Editorial, Analysis, Opinion and Features

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT

Robredo cites programs for attaining energy security
Vice President Leni Robredo lamented the country’s supply of energy is the “number one concern now” as she called for the development of indigenous energy sources to alleviate the rising energy prices.
Manila Bulletin
 

AUDIT, GRAFT, AND CORRUPTION

BUDGET, FINANCE, and TAXATION 

BUSINESS, ECONOMY AND INVESTMENT 

BUILD, BUILD, BUILD and PUBLIC WORKS

DISASTER AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

DEFENSE AND SECURITY 

Armed Forces of the Philippines 

Philippine National Police 

EDUCATION

ELECTION RELATED

Biased? GMA tells Marcos camp Jessica Soho’s questions ‘tough’ like the presidency
GMA Network on Saturday, January 22, refuted the claim of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s camp that veteran journalist Jessica Soho is “biased against the Marcoses” – the reason it had cited for refusing to join her interview with presidential aspirants.
Rappler

Presidential bets say no to same-sex marriage; 2 open to civil unions
Presidential candidates for the 2022 elections do not think same-sex marriage should be allowed in the Philippines, but two candidates said they could support civil unions among LGBTQ+ couples.
Rappler

Lawmaker and lawbreaker? Past haunts Lacson in GMA interview
In the Jessica Soho Presidential Interviews, Soho grilled Lacson about the time when he was a fugitive from early 2010 to 2011, as he left the country shortly before a court issued an arrest warrant against him over the murders of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito in November 2000.
Rappler

Incidents

INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY  

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES

JUDICIARY

Supreme Court

Court of Appeals

Sandiganbayan

Municipal/Regional Trial Courts

LABOR

LEGISLATIVE

Senate of the Philippines

House of Representatives

LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS (LGUs)

OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE

FOREIGN RELATIONS   

West Philippine Sea

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

GENDER

Woman flogged 100 times for adultery, partner gets 15 in Indonesia
An Indonesian woman was flogged 100 times Thursday in conservative Aceh province for adultery while her male partner, who denied the accusations, received just 15 lashes.
Philstar

YOUTH

HOUSING and SETTLEMENT

Rebuilding framework for calamity-hit homes set
The Philippines’ housing authority and the World Bank have come out with a framework to rebuild shelters damaged or destroyed by calamities, estimated to reach 300,000 units per year.
Inquirer

472 gov't housing units in Zambo City sold off illegally
Some 472 units or 20 percent of the permanent houses at the Zamboanga City Roadmap to Recovery and Reconstruction (Z3R) resettlement sites have been sold to other individuals.
PNA

POVERTY

SOCIAL WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT

TRANSPORTATION

TOURISM

WATER and ENERGY

More consumers oppose Aboitiz firm as power distributor in Davao provinces — coop execs
More power consumers in Davao del Norte and Davao de Oro provinces have opposed the impending takeover of Aboitiz-owned Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) of the franchise area of Northern Davao Electric Cooperative Inc. (Nordeco).
Inquirer

MinDA urges ‘thorough review’ of mining practices
The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), the premier coordinating body for peace and development efforts in the region, batted for a “thorough review” of the practices of mining operations to prevent a similar incident in Davao Oriental when heavy rains brought siltation and discoloration in a river system last week.
Inquirer

Davao Oriental Gov wants permanent closure of mining operations in Banaybanay
Davao Oriental Governor Nelson Dayanghirang has recommended the permanent closure of the mining operations of the Riverbend Consolidated Mining Corp./Arc Nickel Resources, Inc. (RCMC/ANRI) for allegedly polluting the  Mapagba and Pintatagan Rivers in Banaybanay town. 
MindaNews