Japanese foreign affairs exec meets MILF leaders

August 31, 2006
Updated 18:25:59 (Mla time)
Jeoffrey Maitem
Inquirer
COTABATO CITY — Japan’s minister of foreign affairs for Southeast Asia on Wednesday met with top leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in their camp in Maguindanao to personally relay his country’s decision to send a development expert to become part of the International Monitoring Team (IMT) [...]

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MILF backs gov’t birth-spacing program

 
By Jeoffrey Maitem
Inquirer
Last updated 05:00pm (Mla time) 12/03/2006
 
COTABATO CITY — Leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have urged their fellow Muslims in Mindanao to practice the government’s birth-spacing program.
MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu told reporters Saturday there was nothing wrong with the program because it was supported by the Dar’ul Iftah, an organization of [...]

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Grenade injures 4 kids in South Cotabato market

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Last updated 06:20am (Mla time) 06/30/2007
KORONADAL CITY—At least four children were injured in an explosion at the public market in Barangay Lamian in Surallah, South Cotabato around 5 p.m. on Thursday, police said yesterday.
Supt. Robert Kiunisala, South Cotabato police director, said the explosion was caused by a rifle grenade, which a group of children had [...]

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