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1. Aquino faces media on hostage fiasco
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...quo;grandstanding” during the hostage-taking, and that he was simply doing his job. Tulfo and Radio Mindanao Network’s Michael Rogas, who also faced the IIRC, both spoke with Mendoza ove...

2. Andal Jr. massacre executor
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...31 journalists, on Wednesday told a court that the patriarch of a politically powerful clan in southern Mindanao and his youngest son had covered the bases weeks before the actual mass murder. A...

3. Judge defers hearing on Ampatuan case
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...tember 8 and 15. Andal Jr., the former vice mayor of Datu Unsay town in Maguindanao province in southern Mindanao, asked the court to suspend the scheduled hearings on September 1, 8 and 15 until ...

4. Church warns vs. whitewash
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...e is being partly blamed for the entire fiasco. Earlier reports said that Mendoza was talking with Radio Mindanao Network (RMN). At the start of the interview that would last more than an hour, ...

5. Same probe results a must
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...ficial of the PNP Crime Laboratory, an independent forensic expert and radio anchorman Mike Rogas of Radio Mindanao Network. No fault-finding Honasan said that the inquiry is in aid of legislation ...

6. 34th Milo marathon Davao draws 14,000 runners
(Sports/Sports)

...Emili Avergonzalo, Roy Leonor and Juliet de Asis. Also participating in the biggest running event in the Mindanao region are enthusiasts from the different running clubs and members of the Philip...

7. Hostage-taker a bemedaled officer
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

... for 90 days. He was then ordered transferred to the Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PRO-ARMM) but did not make it there because of his dismissal. Case records showe...

8. Discontent grips military
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...huffle announced on August 13 by the Armed Forces. Angue was named commander of the Naval Forces Western Mindanao, which, he claimed, was a demotion. He would be replaced by Maj. Gen. Arthur Taba...

9. Muslims renew faith with Ramadan fast
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...on along with a long-running Muslim insurgency. A separatist Muslim insurgency in the southern region of Mindanao has claimed more than 150,000 lives over the past four decades, and peace talks be...

10. Muslims start 30-day Ramadan fasting
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...to fulfillment as we support the new administration’s quest for final and lasting peace in Southern Mindanao,” Lucman said. “I foresee that President Benigno Simeon Aquino 3rd ca...

11. Arms pilferage continues
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...ds of private armies of influential politicians such as the Ampatuans of Maguindanao province in southern Mindanao and in other parts of the country. The PNP Directorate for Intelligence said that...

12. Pacquiao dares Floyd to a fight
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...ho was elected congressman in the May 10 balloting in the lone district of Sarangani province in southern Mindanao. The reigning pound-for-pound boxing king, Pacquiao added that he was glad about...

13. Sulu political rivalry blamed for attack
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

... Sulu Island chain about 100 kilometers south of Zamboanga City. Both areas are part of the impoverished Mindanao region, where deadly Muslim and communist insurgencies have raged for decades. Th...

14. One dead in airport attack
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...the terminal. The blast was just outside the terminal, he added. Zamboanga is one of the main cities on Mindanao island, where a Muslim separatist insurgency has left more than 150,000 people dea...

15. Peace efforts in Mindanao Tokyo priority
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...ambassador to the Philippines on Thursday said that one of its priorities is to help in the development of Mindanao, particularly in government peace efforts there. Makoto Katsura said during an exc...

16. Police, military vow dismantling of remaining 107 private armies
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

... armed groups, or private armies in the country, particularly in specific provinces in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The Armed Forces chief of staff, Lt. General Ricardo David and National Police...

17. Escalation of Sultan Kudarat hostilities feared
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...e is feared to escalate as hostilities between the two camps continue to claim lives. Muslim leaders of Mindanao have tried but failed to pacify Datu Randy Karon, a top MNLF commander, and Jing C...

18. Mayweather draws flak for avoiding Pacquiao
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...avoiding a showdown with Pacquiao, now the congressional representative of Sarangani province in southern Mindanao. “Mayweather has run from his biggest challenge. The fans, even those who h...

19. Poor regions vital in attaining UN goals
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...needs to focus on helping the country’s poor regions, particularly the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in southern Mindanao. “There are a lot of things happening, but the...

20. President gets invitation to address UN
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...wants President Aquino to address more speedily and effectively—extra-judicial killings and peace in Mindanao, job creation and reproductive health. “This whole era of impunity needs to...

21. Garcia-led PSC eyes grassroots
(Sports/Sports)

...previous administrations were the Cebu City Sports Center at the Abellana School ground in Cebu City, the Mindanao Civic Center in Tubod, Lanao del Norte and the Cagayan de Oro Sports Center of Gov...

22. Court to arraign Ampatuan Jr. next week
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...k. Most of the police officers are members of the Regional Mobile Group in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and are currently detained at Camp Bagong Diwa. Reyes also issued warrants of arre...

23. Napocor, Belgian firm to build solar plants state-owned
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...nts in nearby islands and missionary areas—or places that are not connected to the Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao grids—to ensure that there would be adequate demand for the solar plants&rsqu...

24. US TROOPS TO STAY IN MINDANAO, SAYS ENVOY
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...Affairs William Burns said the troop commitment was part of US efforts to develop the strife-torn region of Mindanao, where al-Qaeda-linked militants are active. Militant students stage a protest i...

25. Kidnapped Japanese makes contact
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

... Toshio Ito, also known as Amer Katayama Mamaito, who was kidnapped on July 16 in Sulu province in southern Mindanao. PHOTO BY AL JACINTO   His passport, issued January 31, 2000 at the Japanese ...

26. Greater leeway for NGCP eyed to solve power woes
(Business/Business)

... look into the feasibility of establishing a fully linked national grid that connects Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The Energy department said it will also review the implementation of the Electri...

27. Malacañang backs Roxas’ poll protest
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...atistical improbabilities in certain clustered precincts, particularly in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), which, he said, were too glaring but the Commission on Elections (Comelec)...

28. Freed Chinese trader arrives in Manila, turned over to embassy
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...; Consul Wang said. Chief Supt. Angelo Sungalo, PNP director for Integrated Police Operations in Western Mindanao, said police forces from the Luuk Municipal Police Station under Police Insp. Muha...

29. Napocor seeks third rate hike
(Business/Business)

... April this year. To recover its forex costs, Napocor proposed to increase its rates in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao by P0.05, P0.03 and P0.04 a kilowatt-hour. For its fuel costs, the company also w...

30. Social project turns over P20M in school buildings
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...room school building at Datu Hofer Municipality is one of the two projects of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Social Fund Project in Maguindanao implemented through a soft loan from Japan Inte...