MILITANTS

A group of militant youth staged a protest rally in front of a department store along Colon street Monday, hours before US President Obama is set to arrive in the Philippines for his first State Visit to the country. Some of them flashed streamers saying “Leave us alone America” and “Say No to US Military.”

Earlier on Monday, just hours before Obama’s arrival, the officials of the Philippines and the United States signed the agreement that will allow an enlarged rotational presence of American troops in the country.