OTB News (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
COTABATO CITY, Philippines, July 23 (UPI) — The president of the Philippines said Wednesday that peace is achievable in the often violent Mindanao region through further talks and economic development.
Infidels Are Cool (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has violated a declared cease-fire and peace-zone, and as a result an elderly woman was killed and her sister injured.
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
By JOHN UNSON The Philippine Star COTABATO CITY The House of Representatives is not inclined to postpone the Aug. 11 elections in the Autonomous Region ...
Singapore News Alternative (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Inquirer.net 15 Jul 2008 The Philippines will start selling pork products to Singapore this year, following accreditation of Matutum Meat Packing Corp. in Polomolok town in the southern province of South COTABATO as sole processor of pork exports to the island-state, an official said. > > > > More
Shariah Finance Watch (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Filipina on death row says she accepts her fate, entrusts her life into God’’s hands May Vecina narrates her story exclusively to Al Watan Daily Ricky Laxa Al Watan staff Exclusive to Al Watan Daily KUWAIT: May Vecina, a Filipina domestic helper who was sentenced to death for killing a sevenـyearـold Kuwaiti boy who was under her [...]
M I S C E L L A N E O U S (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Newsletter 1st July 2008, 12:00 (Manila time) Breaking News Army assuages fears of eruption of hostilities in N. COTABATO KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines The Army unit in North COTABATO on Tuesday said it is maintaining its defensive stance amid harassments launched by suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels in key areas in the province the past weeks. Full Story: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/104310/Army-assuages-fears-of-eruption-of-hostilities-in-N-COTABATO...
Hunt of the Sea Wolves (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
ABS-CBN: Fighting between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the military in North COTABATO, broke out again Tuesday morning. Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr., Philippine Army public affairs chief, said some 120 armed MILF rebels attacked members of the Army’s 40th Infantry Battalion in Pagangan village in Aleosan town around 8:30 a.m. Brawner said the Moro fighters were [...]
Laglagan (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 02:46:00 06/20/2008 Opinion On the third day of classes in the hundredth year of the University of the Philippines (UP), a freshman from COTABATO province, a Chemistry major at UP in Diliman, Quezon City, had to drop out. Together with his father, the brokenhearted young man went to see each of his instructors to have his subjects invalidated. While his Math 17...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Philippines officials Saturday said at least 12 people have died from drowning and landslides triggered by Typhoon Fengshen. At least 27 people are reported missing in the Philippines, where the toll included two killed in a landslide in COTABATO City and seven missing in a capsized boat incident in Surigao province, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported. Thousands of Filipinos had been evacuated...
League of Filipino Students (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
On the third day of classes in the hundredth year of the University of the Philippines (UP), a freshman from COTABATO province, a Chemistry major at UP in Diliman, Quezon City, had to drop out. Together with his father, the brokenhearted young man went to see each of his instructors to have his subjects invalidated.
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
*Filipino pirate cable operator in court Rose Major, The Philippines' Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has served its first-ever temporary restraining order to a pirate cable operator in...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
A typhoon is sweeping the central Philippines. It's killed at least 12 people, flooded nine towns and cities and forced 200,000 residents to evacuate to emergency shelters. Most of the victims drowned as the Risao river overflowed around the town of Upi. A landslide in COTABATO city also killed two residents. Typhoon Fenshen is tracking northwest, packing winds of at least 140 kilometres an hour. Forecasters...
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
In the Philippines, Filinvest Development said that it would construct a 9.6 Mgy sugarcane ethanol plant, expected to be co-located in Mindanao with COTABATO Sugar Central and Davao Sugar Central, which have a combined sugar milling capacity of 10 tons per day. Philippines background Basic Energy said last month that they will construct a 14 Mgy multi-feedstock [...]
The Two Malcontents (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
SAN DIEGO – The Navy has temporarily halted flights to and from the San Diego-based hospital ship Mercy after one of the vessel’s helicopters took gunfire in the Philippines on Monday, Navy officials said. The Mercy has been anchored near the city of COTABATO as part of Pacific Partnership 2008, the first stop on [...]
SAILORS, MARINERS & WARRIORS LEAGUE (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The Navy has temporarily halted flights to and from the San Diego-based hospital ship Mercy after one of the vessel's helicopters took gunfire in the Philippines on Monday, Navy officials said. The Mercy has been anchored near the city of COTABATO as part of Pacific Partnership 2008, the first stop on the ship's five-country, five-month mission in the western Pacific Ocean. Medical personnel from several...
