Southern Mindanao, Philippines News

Photos released by the Philippine Army show soldiers attending to road mishap victims in Montevista District Hospital in Compostela Valley province after rescuing them Friday, January 1, 2009.

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

Another earthquake on Wednesday evening hit the Southern Mindanao area after 3 tremors were recorded in the area over the weekend.

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

Three tremors hit Southern Mindanao over the weekend with epicenters located near Mati in Davao Oriental province.

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.

Construction of the Mindanao Railways is scheduled to start in 2011 with the initial spur of the first phase between Cagayan de Oro City and the new airport in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental.

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.

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.

Galo B. Ocampo. Brown Madonna. Oil on canvas. 62 cm x 47 cm. 1938. The Madonna and child create self-identification with the viewer.

DAVAO CITY Two of eight vice presidential hopefuls who got the nod of the Commission on Elections as candidates for May 2010 and at least 10 of 58 senatorial bets are from Mindanao There is no Mindanawon among the eight Presidential candidates although Nicanor Perlas, who is still contesting his disqualification, finished his Agriculture degree at ...

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

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.

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.

The Supreme Court is standing pat on its decision that Picop Resources, Inc. did not comply with administrative measures needed to claim a forest management permit covering 75,545 hectares in Mindanao.

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.

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.