Southern Mindanao, Philippines News

DAVAO CITY, Philippines - " Communist rebels have freed Sunday a captured government soldier after two weeks in captivity in the southern Philippines.

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Unidentified men bombed a steel pylon in the largely Muslim province of Lanao del Sur in Mindanao on Friday, cutting off electricity in some areas in the volatile southern region of Mindanao, authorities said.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines - " Philippine communist rebel group New People's Army has ordered Thursday the release of a captured government soldier in the volatile southern region of Mindanao.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines - " A communist rebel and soldier were killed in separate clashes in the volatile region of the southern Philippines, officials said Wednesday.

Fifty Muslim religious leaders of Metro Manila and Luzon, both men and women, gathered at the Bayview Park Plaza from November 4 to 6 this week to discuss issues critical to our lives, focusing on human rights, elections, interfaith dialogues, and Islamic peace education.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines , Nov 9 - At 14, Ann is too young to be worrying about getting pregnant or acquiring AIDS.

Davao, the window to Mindanao. Davao , Davao , Philippines Friday, November 6, 2009 Text and Images by Ronald de Jong Davao Gulf Davao is often dubbed as the window to the island of Mindanao, an inviting city that will surprise its visitors and raise one's curiosity.

Friday, 6 November 2009, 9:34 am Press Release: US Department of State - Background Notes October 2009 Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs PROFILE OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of the Philippines Geography Area: 300,000 sq.

Environment officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations declared the Mt.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines - " Communist New People's Army rebels raided a military post after overpowering guards and taking one soldier hostage, officials said Tuesday.

DAVAO CITY The focus group discussions conducted by Konsult Mindanaw! on the peace process following the botched Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain last year, have identified rido and mining as among "other sources of armed conflict." Konsult Mindanaw!, the research team from academe which the Bishops-Ulama Conference commissioned to do ...

Suspected leftist rebels shot dead on Sunday a Filipino intelligence officer and injured two other civilians in the southern Philippines, a military spokesman said on Monday.

Girls in gangs become more vulnerable when families can ill afford to feed them, increasing risk of being prostituted.

The first Millennium Development Goal adopted by member states of the United Nations is to halve extreme poverty around the globe by 2015.

The New People's Army has claimed responsibility over the killing of an Army soldier last Sunday in a mountain village in Davao City.

DAVAO CITY The New People's Army in Southern Mindanao has claimed that one of the suspected soldiers in the March 4 abduction- rape-slay-torture of teacher Rebelyn Pitao was killed in Crossing Malabog, Paquibato on Sunday afternoon because he was "armed, dangerous and gave battle to the NPA arresting team." "He was liquidated, as simple as that," ...

Mapagu condemned the killing, saying, "This is a total disregard to the safety of civilians and contempt to a peaceful gathering in a community." Communist rebels owned the killing of Pedregoza, who was one of four soldiers accused of kidnapping and killing the 20-year-old daughter of senior guerrilla leader Leoncio Pitao in March.

" Communist rebels on Monday have claimed responsibility for the killing of a government soldier in the southern Philippines.

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Security forces on Saturday mounted an operation to trace a Filipino architect kidnapped in the southern Philippines, officials said.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines - " The Philippine Air Force's 7th Reservist Command ended Friday a four-day training on disaster and rescue operations in Mindanao.