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An employee of the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) was shot dead by a lone gunman in Maguindanao province Thursday, police said on Friday. Nestor Bulahan, a Unicef employee assigned at Cotabato, died due to a gunshot wound on the...

Maguindanao�Escorted by soldiers, policemen and supporters on a 50-vehicle convoy, Buluan, Maguindanao Mayor Esmael "Toto" Mangudadatu filed his certificate of candidacy under the administration coalition for the gubernatorial race before the provincial office of the Commission on Elections...

Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago on Friday became the first senatorial aspirant to become a guest candidate under six political parties, but quickly stressed that she will not be endorsing any candidate for the presidential post in 2010. "I can�t (endorse) because...

Twenty-seven journalists were among 57 people killed in a massacre in the southern Philippines blamed on an ally of President Gloria Arroyo, the military said Thursday. The dead also included up to 15 motorists who, like the reporters, had no...

The Philippine Kayaking Series attempts to set the longest kayaking marathon in the country in its third leg, which crosses from Cebu to Bohol in the Visayas. Dubbed the Red Bull Kayak Explore Cebu-Bohol Crossing, it covers a distance of...

Computing giant is opening its first �innovation center� in the Philippines next week, in a bid to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) better harness the power of technology for their products and in their operations. IBM Philippines chief technologist...

Philippines�Two ranking military officials have been relieved from their posts in Maguindanao to give way to "impartial and transparent investigations" on the gruesome murders Monday of at least 57 people in the province, the Philippine military said.

Philippines�The Philippine government will receive a total of nine million doses of vaccines against the Influenza A (H1N1) virus from the World Health Organization (WHO) in the coming months. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III and WHO Director General Margaret Chan...

Ben Dolorfino, chief of the Armed Forces� Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom), said Pablo Mercado III of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) was released 10:30 p.m...DAR Secretary Nasser Pangandaman and the crisis management committee headed by Lanao del Sur Governor...