Market Bombing Victims Buried As Military Blame MILF Rebels For Blast

Read Full Post »

Getty Images:UN Food Distribution Reaches Displaced Filipino Communities

DATU BLAH SINSUAT, PHILIPPINES – JUNE 30: Filipino Muslim children evacuees look as volunteers unload sacks of rice to for them on June 30, 2009 in the coastal township of Datu Blah Sinsuat in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao, 960km south of Manila. UN officers from the World Food Programme distributes food and relief [...]

Read Full Post »

Rising Oil Prices & Over-Fishing Threaten The Philippines Tuna Industry

Read Full Post »

2 quakes rock Mindanao areas

 
By Jeoffrey Maitem
Mindanao Bureau
Last updated 11:18am (Mla time) 09/18/2007
 
KORONADAL CITY, Philippines — Two tremors jolted several areas of Mindanao on Monday night and early morning Tuesday but no damages were reported, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
Reports from Phivolcs said that the first quake, which had a magnitude of 5.4 hit [...]

Read Full Post »

ARMM to get bulk of $190-M US grant

 
By Edwin Fernandez, Jeoffrey Maitem
Inquirer
Last updated 02:34am (Mla time) 09/22/2007
 
COTABATO CITY—The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will receive most of the $190 million peace and development assistance pledged by the US government, a ranking US Embassy official said.
“What is interesting about this is that it was a grant, it’s not a loan, it’s a grant [...]

Read Full Post »

2 quakes rock Mindanao areas

By Jeoffrey Maitem
Mindanao Bureau
Last updated 11:18am (Mla time) 09/18/2007
 
KORONADAL CITY, Philippines — Two tremors jolted several areas of Mindanao on Monday night and early morning Tuesday but no damages were reported, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
Reports from Phivolcs said that the first quake, which had a magnitude of 5.4 hit [...]

Read Full Post »

AFTER MARIKINA, Marawi to get police training from British gov’t

By Jeoffrey Maitem
Mindanao Bureau
Last updated 04:18pm (Mla time) 09/05/2007
 
PARANG, Shariff Kabunsuan — The British government has earmarked some $49,000 for the training of Marawi City policemen in a bid to turn them into model law enforcers, Chief Superintendent Joel Goltiao, chief of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) police, said on Wednesday.
Goltiao told the [...]

Read Full Post »

US troops to fix Mindanao road

 
By Jeoffrey Maitem, Richel Umel
Mindanao Bureau
Last updated 05:16pm (Mla time) 08/24/2007
 
KORONADAL CITY — American soldiers participating in the annual Philippine-US military exercise will rehabilitate the bumpy highway that connects Maitum in Sarangani province and Palimbang town in Sultan Kudarat as part of their humanitarian mission, Palimbang Mayor Samrod Mamansual has told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The [...]

Read Full Post »

PHILIPPINES: OVER 100 MILITANTS HUNTING DOWN JI BOMBER

PHILIPPINES: OVER 100 MILITANTS HUNTING DOWN JI BOMBER
Cotobato City, 31 May (AKI) – Over a hundred rebel troops are being deployed by the Philippines largest Muslim militant organisation, the Moro Islamic liberation Front (MILF), to run after a key bomb expert of the al-Qaeda affiliated Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), reportedly hiding in the southern Philippines. Eid [...]

Read Full Post »

Cotabato car bomb disarmed

By Jeoffrey Maitem
Inquirer
Last updated 08:47pm (Mla time) 06/13/2007

SURALLAH, South Cotabato — Alert civilians here on Wednesday helped authorities prevent what could have been another bloody day for Central Mindanao as explosives experts successfully disarmed what was described as a car bomb designed to inflict maximum damage and injuries.
Superintendent Roberto Kiunisala, South Cotabato police chief, said [...]

Read Full Post »