As the South Chinese Sea dispute continues to heat up, former associate justice Antonio Carpio has recommended that the Philippines submit the conflicting claims in the Spratly Islands to voluntary arbitration in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
SURRENDER CALL. File photo shows Noel Legaspi alias "Ka Efren" (center), former spokesperson of the New People's Army-Far South Mindanao Regional Revolutionary Committee, urging comrades to surrender during a press conference in General Santos City in 2020. Legaspi made the same call on Tuesday (Nov. 2, 2021) in response to the killing last Saturday of ranking NPA leader Jorge Madlos alias "Ka Oris" and another companion in an encounter in Barangay Dumalaguing, Impasugong town in Bukidnon. (Screengrab of press conference) GENERAL SANTOS CITY -A former leader of the New People's Army (NPA) in South-Central Mindanao reiterated his call to remaining combatants in the area to surrender to avoid suffering the same fate of their slain comrades. Noel Legaspi alias "Ka Efren," who had served as deputy secretary and long-time spokesperson and of the NPA's Far South Mindanao Regional Revolutionary Committee, said on Tuesday they should grab the chance to