Philippines News

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines : Philippine troops have killed one of the top commanders of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group, the military said Friday.

Members of the Camp Navarro General Hospital and the Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines chaplain team concluded three days of teaching crisis intervention management techniques to more than 50 care providers at the Philippine armed forces Western Mindanao Command yesterday.

AT a time when the country was consumed by economic doom and gloom the release, last week, of Columban priest, Fr.

China's top political adviser Jia Qinglin met Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo here on Friday, pledging further efforts to bolster bilateral ties.

Philippine troops have killed a senior commander of al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants wanted for kidnappings and bombings, the military says.

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo endorsed her former defence chief as her successor on Thursday although major defections hit the Philippines' largest political party ahead of presidential elections next May.

Widespread physical and sexual abuse of domestic workers from overseas is rampant throughout the Arab world.

(ANSAmed) - DUBAI, NOVEMBER 18 - The parliamentary commission for Labour Affairs of the Philippines has urged the government to suspend the sending of domestic workers to the Middle East followed an inspection by three delegates to the region, who documented situations tantamount to "modern slavery", reports the daily paper Khaleej Times.

The mission, sent by the parliament of the Philippines, visited five cities: Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Amman in Jordan. "We have seen violations in all three countries," said member of parliament Carlos Padillas, explaining that "some of the victims were tricked by the employment agencies, while others suffered physical and sexual abuse from their employers."

Master Sgt. Rose Gould assigned to passes out handouts during a psychological combat stress class at Camp Navarro General Hospital at Western Mindanao Command Nov.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - " Philippine Muslim rebels have denounced Thursday the violent dispersal by armed policemen of dozens of Muslim dwellers in Pasay City that killed 3 people and injured many others.

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Government troops mounted fresh operation against communist rebels who raided a logging firm and left at least three dozen people dead and wounded in Surigao del Sur province in Mindanao, officials said Friday.

TFI Global Limited announced today the opening of its Money Remittance Network for live money sending transactions.

A 79-year old Irish priest, who was released unharmed one month after being kidnapped in the Philippines by a militant Islamic group, says he wants to continue serving as a missionary - writes Ray McMenamin .

Two Korean men in their 40s were found stabbed to death on a beach in Cebu according to local police in the Philippines.

In line with Brunei Darussalam's objective of achieving it's 20 per cent self-sufficiency target by 2010, the Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources' , on behalf of the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, signed an Implementing Arrangement with the Philippine Department of Agriculture to promote ...

MANILA // When Hillary Clinton arrives in the Philippines today it will be the first visit by a secretary of state to the former United States colony since Condoleezza Rice accompanied George W Bush in 2003 - a trip primarily aimed at shoring up Manila's commitment to the 'war on terror'. The Philippine government can be expected to make a lot of ...

DESPITE ample time given to them, over a thousand gun owners have chosen not to register their firearms under the government's Final and General Firearms Amnesty .

“We don’t really have to go as far as naming gun violators as terrorists. That’s why we are urging gun owners to register their weapons or avail of the amnesty,” Armilla told Sun.Star. “But these harsh measures may be put into effect if gun owners don’t cooperate.”

Police Chief Superintendent Danilo T. Empedrad, regional director of PNP-Northern Mindanao, appealed to gun owners to take advantage of the one-month extension of the gun amnesty program, which will end on November 30.

Jeers greeted Malacañang for its decision to replace Gilberto Teodoro Jr. with Norberto Gonzales Jr. as head of the Department of National Defense.

"With the appointment of (the) much-hated national security adviser...Gloria Arroyo has just brought Adolf Hitler back to life," Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) executive vice president Lito Ustarez said in a statement sent to media on Saturday.

The leftist labor group claimed that Gonzales' alleged "crimes to the people should land him in jail, not in any government post."

"He is one of the worst Filipinos for the job of a Defense secretary. We are concerned that his appointment will signal another escalation of extra-judicial killings enforced disappearances and all-out militarization in the country, especially in Mindanao," the group said.

MANILA // The killing yesterday of an election official in the northern Philippines has raised fears that another violent election season is in the making in a country where political rivals all too often settle scores through the barrel of a gun.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew-in a few days ago; President Barack Obama was in Japan and Singapore for the APEC Summit; Philippine President Gloria Arroyo will soon fly to China as part of Obama's 'advance team' but all anyone can talk about in these islands is Manny Pacquiao! At present, he's likely the only 'kabayan' Filipinos everywhere can point to with pride...

Philippines News.Net Saturday 14th November, 2009 US President Barack Obama has sent a letter to the leader of the main Muslim rebel group in the Philippines, an official of the group said Saturday.