Davao, Philippines News

Former Maguindanao governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. has filed charges of arbitrary detention against senior military officials in the Southern Mindanao region.

AMPATUAN, Maguindanao, Philippines Police and troops sighted yesterday armed Ampatuan partisans in the hinterlands of Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat and in Cotabato City.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - " The Southern Philippine region of Mindanao, despite its vast natural resources and beautiful and pristine beaches, remains to be a dangerous place.

A TOTAL of 79 people were killed by New People's Army rebels in Davao Region from January 3 to December 17, 2009, the military said.

The world's largest miner, BHP Billiton yesterday exited from the $2-billion Pujada nickel project located at Southern Mindanao in the southern Philippines after divesting its 40-per cent stake and ending a protracted battle with its local partner.

Santa Claus will have some company in the airspace above Richmond on Christmas Eve, as five young Richmond residents will be busy flying to the Philippines to spread the word about the benefits of scouting.

Last December 1, 2009, Fritz R. Gemperle joined his Creator and left a void in the lives of his relatives, friends, and beneficiaries of his numerous initiatives to help the underprivileged, especially the rural poor.

COTABATO CITY Acting ARMM governor Ansaruddin Alonto Adiong will likely stay in his post up to the end of the term of officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on September 30, 2011 because the crimes "charged against the regional governor are of the nature that bail is not recommend is not possible," Local Governments Secretary Ronaldo ...

" Suspected New People's Army rebels killed a farmer before his horrified family in the southern Philippines , the military said on Friday.

Officially, the networth of the Ampatuan clan's patriarch is P11 million. Unofficially, however, the wealth of embattled Andal Ampatuan Sr., former Maguindanao governor, and his family members, could reach up to at least P1.3 billion.

Amid the emerging realities and challenges facing the country's human resource, a five-year roadmap for Mindanao 's technical and vocational sector was recently launched here to serve as a blueprint and guide to enhancing competitiveness, viability and sustainability of the island's tech-voc industry.

Dayang Payton burst into tears when she heard on the radio how the most powerful man in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao was forcibly taken by soldiers from a hospital.

Every year, December 10 is the United Nations' designated Human Rights Day. After World War II, the Philippines earned considerable fame for being a principal proponent of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was proclaimed by the UN on December 10, 1948.

A convicted child molester from New Zealand will be kicked out of the country by the Bureau of Immigration for being an undesirable alien.

The Philippine military is confident of quashing a rogue politician's militia in the troubled south, but worried the offensive is creating power vacuums from which more fearsome forces could emerge.

Gunmen loyal to a powerful clan accused in the Philippines' worst political massacre clashed with police in the first reported violence since a southern province came under martial law, officials said Monday.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines - " Communist rebels on Sunday owned up the killing of seven government soldiers in fierce clashes in the southern Philippines.

Soldiers using sniffer dogs and shovels dug up rifles, machineguns and hundreds of crates of ammunition at a farm owned by a powerful political clan linked to a massacre of 57 people in the southern Philippines, officials said on Sunday.

Photos sent to the Mindanao Examiner show the bodies of some journalists who were among 57 brutally killed November 23, 2009 in Maguindanao province.

A flagship project of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte " Peoples Park " will be celebrating its 2nd Year Anniversary on December 16, 2009.