Philippines News

Over a million and a half Muslim Filipinos have voted in a regional election held amid escalating violence between the government and Muslim separatists in the southern Philippines.

COTABATO CITY, Philippines, : Leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front were tight-lipped on Sunday on the pronouncement of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for nongovernment peace advocates to lead in ...

MILF TRIPOLI AGREEMENT ON PEACE OF 2001 The Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front herein referred to as the "Parties" to this Agreement, TERMS OF REFERENCE: The ...

Via ABS-CBN News: 1,500 Zambo residents have traces of Malaysian flu . Local health workers in Zamboanga City said Saturday at least 1,500 residents have been found with traces of the "Malaysian flu." Rodel ...

Santos, South Cotabato last Aug. 4. DOJ Task Force 211 commander undersecretary Ricardo Blancaflor, in a statement, assured Cuesta's family that the government will use all the resources at its disposal in ...

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Peace falls to pieces in the Philippines By Noel Tarrazona ZAMBOANGA CITY - Will recently concluded democratic elections usher in more war or peace in the conflict-ridden southern Philippines? Voters last week ...

When the price of rice nearly doubled to about 90 US cents per kilo, two months ago, Liza Valino put cheaper substitutes like bananas and sweet potatoes on the table to feed her family of ten.

It was high noon when the family left the pier of Lucena, bound for a three-hour boat ride across the waters of the deep China Sea.

Two suspected New People's Army guerillas have been killed and a soldier was wounded in a fresh encounter in Calauag town in Quezon province Friday morning, the military said.

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A homemade bomb hurt a would-be attacker in the Philippines on Thursday while another device was defused at a southern bus terminal in what the military suggested was retaliation from Muslim rebels for a recent ...

MANILA, Philippines : A fragile peace process would be threatened if a Muslim guerrilla commander involved in the occupation of predominantly Christian villages in the southern Philippines is charged, a rebel ...

Foreign observers and a poll watchdog said Monday the elections in Lanao del Sur were marred with irregularities despite the deployment of automated machines designed to make poll cheating a "thing of the ...

MANILA, Philippines - Muslim guerrillas began withdrawing from several occupied southern Philippine villages Tuesday following fierce fighting with government troops that has displaced nearly 160,000 civilians ...

JOLO, PHILIPPINES -- Efforts to revive a landmark peace deal could collapse if renewed fighting between government forces and Muslim rebels spreads in the southern Philippines, the guerrillas warned Tuesday.

Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta Sunday started his four-day visit to the Philippines aimed to expand bilateral cooperation in business and trade.

MANILA - The United Nations said on Wednesday it was concerned about a humanitarian crisis in the southern Philippines where a ferocious battle between government forces and Muslim rebels has displaced about 160,000 people.

"The Secretary-General appeals for restraint, protection of all civilians as well as access for the provision of speedy humanitarian assistance to the affected population," the statement read.

Entire communities have fled 15 villages in North Cotabato province since late Sunday to escape military airstrikes and mortar fire aimed at Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels holed up in North Cotabato.

MANILA, Philippines - Muslim rebels said they were pulling back from a dozen of occupied southern Philippine villages Tuesday after government forces began retaking them amid fierce fighting that has forced ...

Malaca ang has said that the president does not intend to stay beyond 2010, but fears of a possible term extension have resurfaced, no thanks to the aborted Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain between ...