MNLF, MILF clashes in Cotabato City stop as Police, Army referee
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-19 23:52:34 -0700 | travel-news
Philippines Police and Army personnel are now standing in between warring Moro rebel groups in a remote village here while top level efforts to address misunderstanding are underway. Captain Tony Bulao, spokesman of the 602nd Infantry Brigade, said on Monday...
Newly elected ARMM governor, vice governor appeal for sobriety
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-19 14:55:33 -0700 | political-news
Philippines Amid allegations of massive poll cheating in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, President Aquino's anointed bets, now the region's new governor and vice governor-elect, welcomed the scrutiny but appealed for sobriety...His Liberal Party running mate Haruon Al-Rasheed Lucman...
Maguindanao rice trader abducted
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-15 02:50:04 -0700 | political-news
De Leon said the armed men dragged the victim to a getaway car parked a few meters away from the store. Cabrera is a son of former Kauran village councilor Rafael Cabrera. De Leon said policemen who went after the...
Backer of North Cotabato candidate killed
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-12 23:28:02 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesGunmen on Saturday night ambushed supporters of a vice mayoral candidate in Banisilan, North Cotabato, leaving one dead and two others wounded. Supporters of reelectionist Banisilan Vice Mayor Floro Allado were heading home from a final campaign rally at 11:40...
Margarita Cojuangco blames Palace for poor survey results
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-03 15:28:09 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesSince she began campaigning for the Senate nearly three months ago, former Tarlac Gov. Margarita Tingting Cojuangco has barely moved in the major surveys of potential winners on May 13. Cojuangco on Friday said she found it rather unbelievable considering...
Fire hits LP headquarters in Sultan Kudarat, no one hurt—police
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-01 20:29:33 -0700 | political-news
Unidentified men on Wednesday night set afire the provincial headquarters of President Benigno Aquino III's Liberal Party in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao but no casulaty was reported, the police said Thursday. Senior Inspector Robert Papa, Sultan Kudarat town chief,...
Engaging with Philippine armed groups
Source: IRIN
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-25 08:33:57 -0700 | travel-news
For Chris Rush, of the Swiss-based NGO Geneva Call , nuance is everything when engaging with armed groups...The Moro, the island's indigenous Islamic population, have fought for independence in their Mindanao ancestral homeland for about 40 years in various guises,...
Village chief killed in roadside bombing
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-24 23:13:58 -0700 | political-news
Philippines A village chief was killed while his son was wounded when a roadside improvised bomb exploded in a village in Guindulungan in Maguindanao on Thursday morning. Senior Superintendent Rodelio Jocson, Maguindanao police chief, said Barangay (village) Macasampen chair Sanlindatu...
Village official, 2 killed in ambush in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-16 23:32:00 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesA barangay (village) official and two other family members were killed in an ambush by still unidentified armed men in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, barely three weeks before the May 13 midterm elections. Senior Inspector Ronald de Leon, Ampatuan police chief, said...
The Clan Politics of ARMM Maguindanao’s misery: Absentee officials, absence of rage, poverty
Source: GMA News
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-16 08:03:11 -0700 | political-news
Maguindanao has managed to emerge as the most governed, if only by the number of governance structures physically erected for the province. In the last four decades, the provincial capitol has moved a total of six times to five different...
‘Drug den operator' killed, 7 arrested in Maguindanao raids — police
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-15 23:45:24 -0700 | political-news
Katindig's illegal activities and a raid was conducted on his hideout in Barangay Crossing Salvo in Datu Saudi Ampatuan town around 3 p.m. He said that during the raid, Katindig fired his .45 pistol at the approaching agents...Badrudin Ebrahim, Mohaliden...
Election is key to peace in Muslim Mindanao–Aquino
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-12 19:19:51 -0700 | political-news
Election is key to peace in Muslim MindanaoAquino 8:53 am Saturday, April 13th, 2013 President Aquino...Gov. Mujiv Hataman in Cotabato City, the President proceeded to Buluan town in Maguindanao to make a pitch for the administration's senatorial candidates.
ARMM teachers get poll back wages
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-11 06:11:47 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesMore than 1,000 teachers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are finally being paid salaries that had been partly withheld from them for years, but the back wages are not yet necessarily being released in full. Gov. Mujiv Hataman...
Cholera caused death of fisher in Maguindanao village outbreak, say docs
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-07 22:15:51 -0700 | health-news
Philippines It was cholera, not diarrhea as earlier reported, that killed on Sunday a male patient, who was among 68 residents admitted at the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center here, following last week's outbreak in a Maguindanao fishing village that...
Transition body on Bangsamoro gov't to meet this week, say MILF, PH gov't
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-03-31 04:05:34 -0700 | political-news
Mohaqher Iqbal, will meet at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ortigas, according to the rebel group's Sunday statement. Teresita Deles, presidential adviser on the peace process, confirmed the holding of the first meeting of the 15-man Transcom, although she did...
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