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Boker tov, Boulder! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Have you ever noticed how it's always the same story? They NEED their own homeland, they have a "right" to establish autonomous infidel-free zones, and if the world doesn't cooperate with all their demands, they'll kill as many innocent people as they can. So it is with the "Chechan separatists," the poorpalestinians, and... the Moros in the Philippines. Tell me this doesn't sound familiar. From the...
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ABS CBN (Free subscription) | yesterday
Newly-appointed deputy national security adviser Luis "Chavit" Singson on Sunday advised his friend, Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, against getting into politics this early.
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Five people were killed and 32 others were wounded when a powerful bomb ripped through a packed passenger bus in the southern Philippines on Monday, police and disaster officials said. The blast, caused by an improvised explosive device, tore through the bus, which was parked inside a terminal in the city of Digos on troubled Mindanao island, they said.
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Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
MANILA, Sept. 7 (PNA) -- Amid the controversy over the Court of Appeals' handling of a highly contested case between the Manila Electric Co. and the Government Service Insurance System, President Macapagal-Arroyo has nominated a retired CA justice as a member of the select constitutional body that screens appointees to the Judiciary.
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WatsAp (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
MANILA, Philippines-Malacañang said President Macapagal-Arroyo planned to reconstitute the government peace panel that would include "fresh minds" to propose a new approach toward resolving the Mindanao conflict. 4 Vote(s)
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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
In the Philippines, the ongoing peace talks between the Arroyo government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fits into a peace process paradigm developed by capitalist countries led by the United States. Sometimes referred to as globalization-driven, the peace process ??? somewhat similar to the UN's "peace building," "conflict resolution" or "dispute settlement" - purportedly aims to address...
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ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
GENEVA - Fighting between Philippine government forces and Muslim insurgents has reached its worst point in five years, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Friday. "Up to a half a million people have been affected by this armed conflict and many of them have been obliged to leave their homes," said Carla Haddad, a spokeswoman for International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
PHILIPPINES: Half a million displaced in fightingMANILA, 5 September 2008 (IRIN) - Up to 500,000 people are enduring poor health services and unsanitary conditions after fleeing the fighting between the government and Muslim rebels in the south. Moreover, analysts fear that President Gloria Arroyo's 3 September decision to dissolve a negotiating panel seeking a political solution to the Moro Islamic...
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WatsAp (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
MANILA, Philippines-The Supreme Court Thursday upheld its decision that the Senate could not force Romulo Neri to answer three questions about President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's instructions to him in connection with the scrapped $329-million National Broadband Network (NBN) deal on the ground of 4 Vote(s)
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WatsAp (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
MANILA, Philippines-"Let's not all look for that dramatic end." With these words, Malacañang Thursday hinted that it had given up the prospect of sealing a peace deal with the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's term expires in 2010. 2 Vote(s)
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ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
MANILA - At least 1,000 troops have been rushed to the southern Philippines to escort food aid shipments and protect residents after a major upsurge of Muslim separatist violence, the military said Friday.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Manila - The United Nations on Friday vowed to send more aid to more than 500,000 people displaced by fighting between Muslim separatist rebels and government troops in the southern Philippines. Amid reports that some aid deliveries were being blocke...
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Sunstar (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has cancelled her September 21 to 27 official visit to the US to attend to more pressing matters in the country including the ongoing pursuit operations and stalled negotiations between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said the President also has several commitments around the country [...]
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Sunstar (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
By Godofredo M. Roperos Politics Also THERE is an interesting bit of fact that went with the President’s recent decision to reject entirely the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on ancestral domain. In deciding not to sign the MOA, even at the point of a gun, and dissolving the panel negotiating the document, GMA said she will consult [...]
