MANILA - Philippine leader Gloria Arroyo said she considers the latest reduction in power rates as a classic example of the country's economic gains flowing down to the people.

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DAVAO DEL NORTE (Mindanao Examiner / 28 Feb) – Picketing banana workers complained Wednesday that security guards of the Marsman Estate Plantation allegedly harassed them in the town of Santo Tomas in Davao del Norte province.

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DAVAO CITY – THE KABATAAN PARTY LIST urged Manila Wednesday to assert the Supreme Court’s decisions on the nursing controversy, and to take highest consideration of the poor majority among nursing graduates in planned moves.

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GABRIELA WOMEN’S PARTY LIST on Wednesday urged the Arroyo government to implement fully the “Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003” or Republic Act Number 9208.

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THE SUARA PARTY LIST expressed fear Wednesday over a possible escalation of more violence in the province of Sulu as skirmishes between the Abu Sayyaf Group and government troops are rapidly slipping out of hand.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 28 Feb) - The party list Kilusang Mayo Uno assailed Wednesday the government’s failure to address the growing problems facing the Filipino nurses.

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DAVAO CITY - The Mamamayan Ayaw sa Aerial Spraying (Mass) has started its own countdown for the full implementation of the ordinance banning aerial spraying.

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Kids’ school uniforms, flapping on clotheslines, don’t raise eyebrows. Except when they’re strung in ghettos of indigenous tribal people, like Atis in Sitio Bolabog on glitzy Boracay. “That’s something I didn't see before,” emailed former World Health Organization’s Rabin Sarda.

“Those uniforms are indicators of hope,” says Dr Sarda, who shuttles between Miami and Boracay, yet wedges time to help the once-nomadic Atis. Those clotheslines say: “More Atis are now in school --- and getting a chance to break out of penury”

Progress inches forward despite relentless pressure, by tax-declaration waving claimants, to shove out Atis from what they say is home. The Catholic Church’s commission on indigenous peoples backs the Atis’ December 2001 claim for a certificate of ancestral domain title. And Senator Jamby Madrigal blasted those shoving Atis out with threats and P2,000 handouts and feet-dragging by government agencies. “The beautiful white beaches can not disguise the disgusting reality of a concentration camp being built among Boracay’s tourist attractions,” she wrote.

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THE NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, Asia America Initiative, based in Washington, D.C. and the Philippines, will bring 25 million pesos [$500,000] of vital medicines to the Integrated Provincial Hospital in Jolo as part of the ongoing Development for Peace Program on the southern Sulu Archipelago, the Asian Journal said.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 28 Feb) - The Supreme Court has started selecting the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in the Philippines that will hear and decide pending murder cases involving extra-judicial and political killings in the country.

SC administrator Christopher Lock issued Order 14-0755 compelling courtrooms in the country to inform the High Court on the pending charges involving extra-judicial and political killings.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 28 Feb) - PINAYAGAN na ng liderato ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) na malipat ng pagamutan si Marine Colonel Ariel Querubin na nakararanas ng malaria.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 28 Feb) – The Philippine military on Wednesday denied published reports that a senior Abu Sayyaf leader was killed in a firefight in the southern island of Jolo.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 28 Feb) - HUMINGI ng tawad ngayon ang isa sa mga nasangkot sa bigong kudeta noong Pebrero ng nakalipas na taon kasabay ng paghirit na mapayagang mangampanya sa halalan sa Mayo.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 28 Feb) - GOVERNMENT prosecutors indicted a ranking policeman, his wife and two others for allegedly hiring two minor girls from Davao City to work in a karaoke bar in Cotabato City.

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PRESIDENT GLORIA ARROYO on Tuesday cited the strong fiscal performance of the national government, particularly its strict implementation of programs on improving cash flow and revenue collection, for the lowering of the budget deficit which resulted in the "freeing up" of funds that can be used for priority projects nationwide.

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MANILA – “The decision of the CGFNS to disallow visa application for June 2006 Nursing Board Exam can only be blamed squarely on the government’s tolerance on the masterminds of the test leakage. There was indeed no closure, only cover-up”.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 27 Feb) - ITINATANGGI kanina ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) na dinukot o itinago nito ang isa sa itinuturing na mataas na lider ng Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) na si Leo Velasco.

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TANAY, RIZAL (Mindanao Examiner / 27 Feb) - BUMIGAY ang special General Court Martial ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) sa matagal ng hirit ng mga abogado ng pinaparatangang nagplano ng bigong kudeta noong Pebrero ng nakaraang taon.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY – Several companies from the Zamboanga Peninsula region have confirmed their participation in this year’s National Trade Fair in Manila.

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DAVAO CITY - The roller-coaster ride of the people who pushed for the banning or aerial spraying in Davao City is now told in a clip featured in YouTube, a popular video hosting service in the internet.

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 27 Feb) - DAHIL sa sobrang pagdamdam sa paglisan ng kanyang mister ay winakasan ng isang 29-anyos na ginang ang sarili nitong buhay sa harapan mismo ng limang-taong gulang nilang lalaking anak sa Cagayan de Oro City.

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 27 Feb) - NAHAHARAP sa posibilidad na mapatawan ng parusa si opposition reelectionist Senator Manny Villar matapos itong kasuhan ng Comission on Elections sa Northern Mindanao dahil sa umano’y nagkalat nitong posters at streamers sa mga lugar na hindi designadong poster areas.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 27 Feb) – The Dublin-based Research and Markets warned Tuesday of possible terror attacks in the Philippines because of the alignment between the Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiya groups, blamed for the spate of bombings in the country.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 27 Feb) The workshop, from March 30 to April 15, is special hands-on intensive course designed for culture and development workers who wish to study the art and craft of the video documentary as an information and communication tool.

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DAVAO DEL NORTE – Banana plantation workers and members of the militant party list group, Anakpawis, picketed in front of the firm’s office and demanded payments of labor union benefits.

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ANTIQUE (Mindanao Examiner / 27 Feb) – Nahaharap sa kasong kriminal ang isang ama matapos na umano’y pagmalupitan nito ang sariling anak sa bayan ng San Jose.

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CEBU (Mindanao Examiner / 27 Feb) – Matapos ng halos 200 kaso ng sunod-sunod na pamamaslang ng mga umano’y vigilantes sa Cebu sa loob ng 2 taon ay buong tapang naman na sinabi ng pulisya wala ng magaganap na summary killings.

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Filipino journalists expressed alarm Tuesday over spying activities of military and police agents on members of the media in Mindanao in the southern Philippines.

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Vote wisely is a decade old rallying cry whenever election time approaches. But come to think of this…how many do you think cares about this?

Hindi lingid sa ating kaalaman ang mga kamalian nitong mga nakaraan eleksyon. Ang masaklap pa nga ay baka bahagi tayo ng mga kamalian sa paglalagak ng mga karapat-dapat na tao upang maglingkod sa gobyerno.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 26 Feb) – The militant Kilusang Mayo Uno held a rally Monday outside the Philippine Heart Center in Manila to protest the continued detention of Rep. Crispin Beltran, who is facing rebellion charges.

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MANILA - Three American tennis professionals from the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) visited the Philippines recently to conduct tennis clinics for Filipino children and teenagers.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 26 Feb) – The militan party list group, Suara, on Monday urged the Commission on Human Rights to investigate the illegal arrest of a Muslim farmer in the southern Philippine port city of Davao.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 26 Feb) - HINDI papayagan ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) na maligalig ang posisyon ng Pangulong Gloria Arroyo at tiniyak na matatapos nito ang termino hanggang 2010.

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DAVAO CITY - The Davao City government is now throwing its all-out support to organic agriculture, a timely move with the growing demand for safe and healthy food products and the consciousness for environmental-friendly farm practices.

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OLONGAPO CITY - Sailors of USS Juneau (LPD 10) with embarked Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) departed here Monday after completing two projects and building strong relations with prominent community leaders and local citizens.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 26 Feb) - UMAMIN ngayon ang mga nagpakilalang miyembro ng "kangaroo court" ng Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) sa Quezon hinggil sa kabiguang makanti ang sinumang miyembro ng militanteng grupo.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 26 Feb) – More than 850 mostly poor Muslims benefited Monday from a joint RP-U.S. medical mission on a remote and dangerous coastal village in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 25 Feb) – At least 13 government soldiers were wounded and six gunmen killed in fierce clashes Sunday in the southern Filipino island of Jolo, where security forces were battling Moro National Liberation Front rebels.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 25 Feb) – Militant groups criticized President Gloria Arroyo for failing to support the House Bill 3728 that will render as public the Coconut Levy Fund.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 25 Feb) - UMAMIN si Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. na nagkamali ito sa direktibang alisin ang seguridad ng dating Pangulong Joseph Estrada na nakaditine sa Tanay, Rizal.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 25 Feb) - HINAMON ng Armed Forces of the Philippines ang nagpapakilalang grupo ng mga opisyal ng militar na nagbunyag ng mga pangalan ng umano’y kaalyado ng administrasyon na nasa likod ng bigong kudeta noong Pebrero ng nakalipas na taon.

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JOLO ISLAND (Mindanao Examiner / 25 Feb) – At least one government soldier was seriously wounded in fierce clashes Sunday with Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) forces in the southern Philippine island of Jolo, officials said.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 25 Feb) – Mariing binatikos kahapon ng ilang kaalyado at kalaban sa pulitika ni Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ang plano nitong tumakbo sa halalan at katambal ang sariling anak na si Sarah, isang abogado, bilang vice mayor.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 25 Feb) – A militant party list group, Anakpawis, on Sunday demanded anew the release from government detention of a lawmaker arrested on rebellion charges last year.

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MANILA - President Gloria Arroyo on Saturday called on Filipinos to support the administration candidates for the May 14 elections and promising more secure jobs and progress for citizens.

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BASILAN (Mindanao Examiner / 24 Feb) – A Filipino soldier was killed in an attack on the island of Basilan, south of Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines, the military said Saturday.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 24 Feb) – Philippine soldiers clashed Saturday with Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern island of Jolo, killing a still undetermined number of gunmen, officials said.

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JOLO (Mindanao Examiner / 24 Feb) – President Gloria Arroyo’s KAMPI party’s gubernatorial candidate in Sulu, Abdusakur Tan, on Saturday said he would pursue a vigorous program aimed at fighting poverty and to transform the island into a peace zone.

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COTABATO CITY – Filipino soldiers and Muslim rebels waging a decades-old separatist war in the southern Philippines are taking up a peace and development course at a Catholic-run university, in a bid to find a lasting solution to conflict that has claimed over 120 thousands lives in the Philippines' southern island of Mindanao, the Adnkronos International (AKI) reported Saturday.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 24 Feb) – Party list Bayan Muna urged the Philippine media on Saturday to support its call for the public to reject the government’s implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Bill.

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Journalists in The Front Lines.

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ON THE EVE OF THE SIXTH ANNIVERSARY of the first killing of a journalist during Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's presidency, Reporters Without Borders wrote to Arroyo Friday urging her to take energetic measures to put an end to impunity for the murders of journalists.

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THE MINDANAO-BASED Suara Party List urged members of Congress Friday to approve the Cheap Medicine Bill or Senate Bill 2263, which is instrumental for the roll-back of medicines' prices in the Philippines.

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ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE PROCLAMATION 1017, the militant labor organization, Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), said Friday that the Armed Forces of the Philippines could take harsher measures against civilians and progressive groups after AFP chief General Hermogenes Esperon's open vilification campaign against legal groups.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 23 Feb) - INAMIN ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) na malaki ang hinanakit ng mga sundalo sa patuloy na paratang sa kanilang hanay na responsable sa political killing sa bansa.

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TAGUM CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 23 Feb) – An unidentified gunman barged into a house in the southern Philippines and shot dead a teenager who was watching television, police said.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 23 Feb) - ISANG malaking kasinungalingan at kabaklaan umano ang ipinalabas na ulat ng Melo Commission hinggil sa mga insidente ng extrajudicial killings sa bansa.

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"On a relaxed weekend, you may want to idly kick around some questions that bug people," my friend Jerry Salvosa e-mailed. Like what?

"Like what’s the difference, for example, between bigamy and monogamy." That's a snap the author, Oscar Wilde, answered that one before. "Bigamy is having one wife or one husband too many," Wilde wrote. "And monogamy is the same."

"But I think polygamy is trigonometry," jokes Manila Bulletin’s Napoleon G. Rama.

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MAYNILA (Mindanao Examiner / 23 Peb) - INAMIN ni dating Army Major General Jovito Palparan na pinag-aaralan nito ang posibilidad na kumandidato sa halalan sa darating na Mayo.

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MEMBERS OF THE KABATAAN PARTY LIST and students of the University of the Philippines held picket rallies Friday in Davao City in the southern Philippines in time for the 1217th Board of Regents meeting of the UP system.

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 23 Peb) – Patay ang isang 26-anyos na misis matapos itong burdahan ng saksak sa katawan ng hiniwalayang mister ng ito’y tumangging bumalik sa kandungan ng lalaking minsang minahal.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 23 Feb) - The militant party list group, Bayan Muna, on Friday challenged the Arroyo government to prosecute a retired army commander, Jovito Palparan, linked by an independent commission to the political killings in the Philippines.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 23 Feb) Two major transportation firms in the southern Philippines announced Friday a huge cut in bus fares as part of it promotion to attract more passengers.

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COTABATO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 23 Feb) – Gunmen killed two people in an attack in the troubled North Cotabato province on Mindanao island, south of the Philippines, military reports said.

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ONE OF THE MOST ELABORATE FLOATS in this year’s Penagbenga Festival parade Sunday in Baguio City is composed of flowers as well as fuels.

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IT'S THE KIND OF ITEM that doesn't show up in defense budget audits: A $200 tin-roofed communal outhouse, or "comfort room," tucked behind the village market.

To US Army Capt. Steve Battle, who split the construction cost with his Philippine counterparts, it's money well spent.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 22 Feb) – Philippine airport authorities arrested a Frenchman and charged him Thursday after he joked that his baggage contained a bomb inside a Bangkok-bound plane in Manila.

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Bayan Muna expressed its appreciation Thursday to Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Special Executions, for fairly listening to all sides and challenged the Arroyo administration to just admit its militarist policies instead of overreacting, and displaying shameful defensive statements.

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MAYNILA (Mindanao Examiner / 22 Peb) - HUMIHIRIT ng patas na laban ang nakaditineng kandidato sa pagka-senador na si dating Navy Lieutenant Senior Grade Antonio Trillanes IV mula sa mga pagbanat ng administrasyon.

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MAYNILA (Mindanao Examiner / 22 Beb) - INATASAN ngayon ni Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff General Hermogenes Esperon Jr., ang lahat ng mga sundalo na dumistansya sa pagsalakay sa mga legal na organisasyon na iniuugnay sa Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army CPP-NPA).

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 22 Feb) – The Arroyo administration suffered a major blow following an initial report by the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur Philip Alston that the Philippine Army is “in a state of almost total denial” about the wave of political killings.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 22 Feb) – Washington donated chemical weapons emergency equipment worth some $150,000 to the Philippines’ Bureau of Fire, the U.S. Embassy said Thursday.

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Press Secretary Ignacio R. Bunye said the government welcomes all recommendations, including that of United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston, in resolving the issue of extra-judicial killings and providing justice to the families of the victims.

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While the government is busy making itself more appealing to its international audience, only 14 out of 58 Filipino high school students can finish college.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 22 Feb) – Some 600 US sailors and marine soldiers are to participate in a humanitarian mission in Zambales province as part of goodwill visit of the USS Juneau (LPD 10).

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One of Southeast Asia's most violent terrorist groups, Abu Sayyaf, is under siege in the southern Philippines.

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MAYNILA (Mindanao Examiner / 21 Peb) - NAGKAMAL ng tinatayang P30 hanggang P50 milyon ang New People's Army (NPA) sa inilunsad na pangingikil nito noong panahon ng kampanya ng May 2004 elections.

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MAYNILA (Mindanao Examiner / 21 Peb) - INIUTOS kanina ni Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff General Hermogenes Esperon Jr., ang madaliang imbestigasyon ng General Court Martial sa 28 opisyal na idinadawit sa bigong kudeta noong Pebrero ng nakaraang taon.

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President Gloria Arroyo is expected to lead Thursday a wreath-laying ceremony at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Fort Bonifacio, marking the start of the four-day anniversary of the 21-year old EDSA People Power celebration, a government statement said.

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MAYNILA (Mindanao Examiner / 21 Peb) - NANININDIGAN ngayon ang Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) na ang paglikida sa loob mismo ng organisasyon ng Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) ang responsable sa insidente ng extrajudicial killings sa bansa.

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MAYNILA (Mindanao Examiner / 21 Peb) ITINAAS ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) at Philippine National Police (PNP) ang alerto nito sa buong bansa bilang paghahanda sa paggunita ng ika-21 anibersaryo ng Edsa People Power 1 revolution.

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I have spent the past ten days in the Philippines at the invitation of the Government in order to inquire into the phenomenon of extra-judicial executions.

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CURBS ON AERIAL SPRAYING of Mindanao banana plantations recently hit the headlines. Hedge-hopping aircraft that spray pesticides make good photo ops. And the stakes are high. The Philippines exported 1.90 million tons of bananas last year.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 21 Feb) – A militant party list group, Anakpawis, expressed fear Wednesday that political repression and summary killings will escalate in the Philippines once President Gloria Arroyo signs the Anti-Terror Bill (ATB) into law.

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AND MANY OF THESE KILLINGS killings have been "convincingly attributed to them", said special rapporteur Philip Alston.

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Picture shows the back of a Muslim woman was hit by shrapnel from an M203 rifle grenade during U.S.-Philippine military exercises in Tagbak village in Indanan town on Jolo island Sept. 4, 2006. Incidents such as this have prompted progressive organizations to denounce the Balikatan exercises being held this month in Sulu. “There may be more similar incidents that have not been documented yet,” said Carol Araullo, the chairperson of the leftist Bagong Alyansang Makabayan. (Photo courtesy of the Imagination for International Solidarity/Davao Today)




DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 21 Feb) Communist rebels on Wednesday accused the United States of using the Balikatan 2007 to justify the presence of American troops in the Philippines.

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SULU (Mindanao Examiner / 21 Peb) – Posibleng masunog ang anumang sikretong operasyon ng Estados Unidos sa bansa matapos na ibunyag ng isang tanyag na correspondent ng Atlantic Monthly ang umano'y pagkakasanggkot ng Central Intelligence Agency o CIA sa pakikibaka sa Abu Sayyaf.

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The International Federation of Journalist (IFJ) condemned the murder of journalists in the Philippines, Somalia and Afghanistan which bring the number journalists and media staff killed in 2007 to 18, a rate of killings that matches the record levels reached last year.

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MANILA - Citing the country’s sustained economic growth over the last six years, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo stressed Tuesday that there will be no turning back in her efforts to lift the nation up, a government statement said.

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MAYNILA (Mindanao Examiner / 20 Peb) – Sisimulan ng magkasanib na tropang militar ng Pilipinas at Estados Unidos ang pagbalangkas ng "blueprint" na magiging tugon o operasyon laban sa terorismo at iba pang maritime security threats.

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COTABATO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 20 Feb) – Philippine leader Gloria Arroyo on Tuesday condemned the killing of a journalist in the restive region of Mindanao, south of Manila, and ordered police to investigate deeper into the murder, her spokesman said.

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MAYNILA (Mindanao Examiner / 20 Peb) – Titiyakin ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) na hindi kikita ng malaki ang Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army sa mga raket nito ngayong halalan.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 20 Peb) Sinigurado kanina ni Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff General Hermogenes Esperon Jr. na hindi maabuso ng militar ang pinagtibay na anti-terrorism bill.

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ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE (Rene Patagan / 20 Feb) - Self-determination, empowerment, cultural preservation, sustainable development. Lofty but seemingly elusive ideals for indigenous peoples (IPs) the world over as they strive to strike a balance between the need to develop in a modern age on one hand, and to preserve generations-old traditions on the other.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 20 Feb) – Government troops clashed with Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippine island of Jolo, leaving a soldier and a gunman dead, as security forces continue Tuesday its offensive with the militant group tied to al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya, officials said.

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COTABATO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 20 Feb) – Philippine police on Tuesday formed a task force to investigate the murder of a journalist in the restive southern island of Mindanao.

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Filipinos are to choose only 12 senators in the May 2007 elections and 80 aspirants have signed up with the Commission on Elections.

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POSITION ON EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CONTRACTING By Bai Sandra Sema

The Educational Service Contracting participating schools are greatly disturbed by the plan to phase out the ESC which is a program that provides access to education in the private Schools. Accordingly, this will be replaced by another program called Education Voucher Program.

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PUERTO PRINCESA, Palawan: Huddled along 17,460 kilometers of coastline, fisher folk remain among the poorest in a country whose seas were once the marine counterpart of the Amazon forests in stunning richness of biodiversity.

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QUEZON CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 19 Peb) - SA halip na magbabad sa mga inuman sa gabi ay aabalahin na lamang sa pamamasyal sa mga makasaysayang lugar sa Pilipinas ang mga sundalong Amerikano na kalahok sa Balikatan military exercises ngayong taon.

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Manila – The Philippine government on Monday said it would create special courts to hasten the investigations in extra-judicial killing cases in the country.

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MINDORO OCCIDENTAL (Mindanao Examiner / 19 Feb) - Dalawang miyembro ng Philippine National Police sa Mindoro Occidental ang napatay habang isa rin ang sugatan sa pakikipagbakbakan sa mga miyembro diumano ng New People’s Army (NPA) kamakalawa.

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COTABATO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 19 Feb) – An unidentified gunman killed a Filipino journalist in an attack in the southern Philippine province of Shariff Kabunsuan, officials said.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 19 Feb) – The U.S. military on Monday said it is investigating the death of an American soldier participating in joint anti-terror training in Jolo island, about 950 km south of Manila.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 19 Feb) – A U.S. soldier participating in a joint anti-terror drill died from cardiac arrest in the southern Philippine island of Jolo, officials said Monday.

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The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the government of Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to drop sedition charges against critical The Daily Tribune publisher and two columnists.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 18 Feb) - The Anakpawis Party list expressed alarm Sunday over the holding of a special session in Congress to lure lawmakers to approve the controversial anti-terror bill in exchange for political funds.

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Dear People of God in the Philippines,

In response to the Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est (God is love), we declared 2006 the Year of Social Concerns (CBCP Pastoral Exhortation, May 11, 2006).

For the God who is love bids us to be love too. In our Pastoral Exhortation naming 2006 the Year of Social Concerns, we expressed the hope that we would be able to educate ourselves more intensively in what the social teaching of the Church is all about. For that teaching in the end comes to only one thing: love of neighbor because of God’s love for us.

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IT IS A PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE that Isabela City became a newly created city in Zamboanga Peninsula Region following the approval of an executive order issued by Malacañang.

Isabela City was dubbed as Future Rising City in Southern Philippines based on the passage of resolution duly approved by the City Government of Isabela under the leadership of the first mayor, the late Mayor Luis Boboy Biel II, a source tells me.

In addition, source said that Isabela City was presently encountering political crisis after the death of Mayor Boboy Biel by an assassin in May 2005.

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 18 Feb) – The communist rebel New People's Army on Sunday denied military reports it killed a "non-combatant" soldier involved in humanitarian projects in the southern Philippines.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 17 Feb) – South Korea on Saturday warned its citizens not to travel to the southern Philippines because of possible bombings by Abu Sayyaf militants whose group is tied to al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya.

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A FILIPINO LAWMAKER is held at the Manila international airport Friday night after his bag yielded 20 pieces of .38-caliber bullets. Laguna Rep. Danton Bueser was on his way to San Francisco.

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ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE (Mindanao Examiner / 17 Feb) – Finally, the untold story of how a top leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group, who held hostage three U.S. citizens, was tracked down by the CIA and eventually killed.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 16 Feb) – A Filipino-American couple are to be crowned with Muslim royal titles by Sultan Esmael Kiram II, of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo, the official Philippine News Agency said Friday.

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AT LEAST 28 village leaders have expressed solidarity with Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema in affirming the obvious and meaningful progress that the city has enjoyed over the past 8 years.

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MAGUINDANAO (Mindanao Examiner / 16 Feb) – A group of senior U.S. officials held a secret meeting with the Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group and sought help to capture Indonesian and Filipino militants with links to al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya terror network, a rebel spokesman said Friday.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 16 Feb) – A U.N. representative investigating the unabated killings of political activists in the Philippines is expected to arrive in Davao City to hear testimonies of relatives of victims and those who survived attacks.

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What Makes a Great President?

According to the author, Professor Robert Dallek who earned his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois and his master of arts and doctorate in history from Columbia University in New York City.

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MATI, Philippines (UCAN) -- A regional clergy convention has stressed support among "brother priests" in the southern Philippines, especially for priests who live in isolation, with little basic supplies, in dangerous areas.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 15 Feb) – At least 18 people were injured when a passenger jeep overturned Thursday in the outskirts of Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines.

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 15 Feb) – Communist insurgents killed a government soldier and wounded four more in an attack Thursday in Compostela Valley province in Mindanao, the military said.

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COTABATO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 15 Feb) – At least 9 people had died and 6 others injured when they were thrown off from a wayward lorry whose break system failed Thursday in Cotabato City in the southern Philippines, officials said.

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CEBU ISLAND (Mindanao Examiner / 15 Feb) – A Philippine Air Lines jet liner carrying 119 people onboard overshot an airport runway Thursday in the central Philippine city of Tacloban, authorities said.

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JOLO ISLAND (Mindanao Examiner / 14 Feb) – Thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers are to begin a series of joint military exercises aimed at improving their combat capabilities in the southern Philippines.

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NAGSIMULA NA ANG KAMPANYA ng mga pulitiko para sa halalan sa Mayo.

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Political Scenarios and Future Political Leaders and their Qualifications and Programs of Governance for the City of Isabela.

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COTABATO CITY (Santosh Digal / 13 Feb) - A group of Muslim leaders from the south of the country have written 55 sermons that will be read throughout the coming year to counter the lies of those who barely know the Koran, the Catholic Asia News said.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Ateneo de Zamboanga University will host a National Conference on Tausug History and Culture.

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COTABATO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 13 Feb) – Police forces clashed with unidentified gunmen near strongholds of Muslim separatist rebels in the southern Philippine town of Sultan Kudarat near Cotabato City, officials said Tuesday.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 12 Feb) – Government soldiers clashed separately with suspected Moro National Liberation Front rebels and Abu Sayyaf Monday and killed at least four gunmen and captured two others in the southern Filipino island of Jolo, military reports said.

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BANGKOK, Feb 12 (IPS) - A 10-day visit by a United Nations investigator to the Philippines, starting Monday, is being welcomed in some quarters as a chance to expose an alleged campaign to ''exterminate left-wing activists'' in that South-east Asian nation.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 12 Feb) – A Sultan of Sulu, Jamalul Kiram III, has been chosen Monday over dozens of personalities, to join the senatorial line up of President Gloria Arroyo’s unity ticket for the May elections.

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MANILA - The Institute for Popular Democracy is inviting users, advocates and developers of Free Software/Open Source Software (FOSS) who are interested in getting government to adapt a progressive FOSS policy to participate in the "Philippine Conference on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and E-Governance."

The event marks the culmination of IPD's one-year project with the European Commission-Philippine Delegation under the Small Projects Facility entitled "Piloting Free and Open Source Software Using Open Standards in e-Governance Applications for Local Government Units." The conference will be held on March 7-8 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel in Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City.

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ANYONE KEEP TRACK OF BILLS, creating new cities that jack-knifed their way through Congress before it adjourned?

In 1991, we had 60 cities, many of dubious viability. By 2003, the number almost doubled to 114. After Taguig, Santa Rosa and Meycauayan joined the club, the total rose to 117,

This “strained the national government’s ability to finance such local government units,” the World Bank and Asian Development Bank noted. But “the small size of LGUs prevents them from generating their own resources.”

This Congress instead approved 12 more “city candidates” : Bogo and Carcar ( Cebu ); Baybay ( Leyte); Catbalogan ( Samar ); Lamitan ( Basilan ); Tandag ( Surigao del Sur ); Batac ( Ilocos Norte ); Bayugan ( Agusan del Sur ); Cabadbaran ( Agusan del Norte ) and Borongan ( Eastern Samar ).

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COTABATO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 10 Feb) – Army troops captured Saturday three prisoners who escaped from a prison facility in North Cotabato province, south of the Philippines, as security forces continued searching for more than three dozen other jail breakers.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 10 Feb) - Some 300 illegal Filipinos arrested in Malaysia had arrived Saturday in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines after spending several months in jail.

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BUKIDNON (Mindanao Examiner / 10 Feb) – Army soldiers gunned down a member of the communist rebel group New People’s Army (NPA) in a firefight in the southern town of Lianga, the military said Saturday.

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SULTAN KUDARAT (Mindanao Examiner / 09 Feb) – North Cotabato governor Emmanuel Pinol continues to draw criticisms over his “shoot-to-kill” order on about 4 dozen prisoners who escaped from a provincial jail.

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Like a bum check, this old story keeps on bouncing.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 09 Feb) – A Norwegian cruise ship with more than 800 European tourists arrived in the southern Filipino port city of Zamboanga on Friday as part of its world tour.

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 09 Feb) – Unidentified gunmen shot dead a peasant leader in an attack in the southern Philippine town of Salay, police and military said.

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MANILA (Jason Carlos / 09 Feb) – At least six Muslim areas in the southern Philippines have benefited from humanitarian projects under the so-called multi-donor trust fund and reconstruction program of the World Bank and Swedish government and other foreign donor agencies.

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BASILAN ISLAND (Sonny Mendoza / 09 Feb) – Basilan island in the southern Philippines is fast becoming progressive as more investments and infrastructure projects continue in the province, just several miles off Zamboanga City.

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COTABATO CITY - The Suara Bangsamoro Party list is one with the rest of the Filipino people who vehemently opposed the passing of the Anti-Terrorism Bill.

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The International Monetary Fund expects the Philippine economy to grow at a faster pace of 5.8 percent this year, reflecting improved investor confidence following fiscal reforms, but it said it was still worried about the huge public debt.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 08 Feb) - Philippine leader Gloria Arroyo on Thursday hailed the passage of the anti-terror bill by the Senate, saying, it will boost the government's all-out war against terror.

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The Filipino-Turkish Tolerance School is a non-sectarian school run by a Filipino-Turkish Foundation called the Integrative Center for Alternative Development Foundation, or more widely known by its acronym ICAD. It was established in 1997 by Filipinos and Turkish nationals with a common goal and mission -- Quality Education.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 07 Feb) – Former Sulu governor Abdusakur Tan and top provincial officials and noted politicians took their oath as new members of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (KAMPI) party in Manila.

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WHEN I RECEIVED text messages from Jolo about the news that Ustadz Habier Malik of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) had “held hostage” a government peace executive and Major General Benjamin Dolorfino of the Marines, I felt afraid for the people of Sulu.

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MANILA - Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos of Butuan has resigned from a government commission that recently tagged the military, communist rebels and politicians as among those responsible for extra-judicial killings, the Union of Catholic Asian News reported Tuesday.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 06 Feb) – The Mindanao Business Council thumbed down a proposed law that would provide a nationwide P125 across-the-board salary increase.

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The highest court of The United Methodist Church has a relatively short docket of 10 items - including reconsidering its complex decision on General Conference representation for the African nation of Cote d'Ivoire - but its meeting place may be the most significant aspect of this spring's session.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 06 Feb) – Philippine soldiers warned Muslim rebels who held hostage senior Philippine defense officials and soldiers in Jolo island to stay inside their camps or risk being shot if caught carrying illegal weapons in public places.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 05 Feb) – A senior adviser of Philippine President Gloria Arroyo on Monday admitted relations between Manila and the Moro National Liberation (MNLF) had been damaged following 3 days of detention of senior military and defense officials by rebels in Jolo island.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 05 Feb) - Pryce Gases, Inc. is investing at least P6 million for the construction of three liquefied petroleum gas refilling stations in the Zamboanga Peninsula this year.

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COTABATO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 05 Feb) – The Moro Islamic Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) accused Monday Philippine soldiers of torturing five Muslim villagers they seized in North Cotabato province, scene of clashes between security and rebel forces.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 04 Feb) – Philippine Muslim rebels freed Sunday a defense official and a marine general along with soldiers they seized after a peace meeting on the troubled island of Jolo, about 950 km south of the country.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 03 Feb) – Moro National Liberation Front rebels holding senior Philippine defense officials and soldiers in the southern island of Jolo may soon free all hostages after a series of government negotiations.

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The Mindanao Examiner is republishing this statement released by the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC)after a delegation met with leaders of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Jolo island and Mindanao in May 2006 who accused the Philippine government of reneging on the 1996 Peace Agreement.

Hundreds of disgruntled MNLF rebels are now holding a group of senior Philippine defense officials in Jolo island because of the government's failure to honor the 11-year old peace deal.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 03 Feb) – Muslim rebels continue to hold top Filipino defense officials and soldiers in the southern island of Jolo and demanded Manila to free jailed rebel chieftain Nur Misuari.

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ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR (Mindanao Examiner / 03 Feb) – At least 50 people have been confirmed killed and more than 40 seriously injured from a deadly fuel gas tanker explosion in the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday.

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JOLO ISLAND (Mindanao Examiner / 03 Feb) – Disgruntled Muslim rebels who signed a peace agreement with Manila in 1996 have taken hostage senior military and defense officials and soldiers in Jolo island, about 950 km south of the Philippine capital.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 02 Feb) - The Financial Supervisory Commission of Taiwan on Friday announced it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Philippines' Central Bank which is aimed at establishing a formal basis for financial cooperation between the two sides, the Radio Taiwan International reported.

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ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR (Mindanao Examiner / 02 Feb) - Authorities said at least 28 people were killed and over three dozens injured in a massive explosion from a truck transporting cooking gas on Friday in Zamboanga del Sur province in the southern Philippines.

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COTABATO CITY (Mindanao Examiner /02 Feb) – The Philippine military accused Friday the country’s largest Muslim rebel group, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), of murdering three people, including a soldier kidnapped in the southern Philippines.

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PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 02 Feb) – At least 30 people were feared dead after a gas explosion Friday in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga del Sur, officials said.

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The Central Massachusetts Filipino-American Association, Inc. (CMFAA) cordially invites the Filipino-American community to their 2007 Valentine's Party Saturday, February 17, 2007 at the American Legion 159 Hartwell Street, West Boylston, MA.

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COTABATO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 02 Feb) – A P56-million commercial center is expected to rise in Cotabato City after the local government and the Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM II) Program signed a memorandum of agreement to build one of the biggest structure here.

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MAGUINDANAO (Mindanao Examiner / 02 Feb) – Gunmen stormed a provincial jail in the southern Philippines, freeing more than 40 prisoners, in a daring attack before dawn Friday, officials said.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 01 Feb) – A song by Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison has been posted on YouTube and so far gathered almost 4,000 views in just over 3 months.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 01 Feb) – A former ally of ex-President Joseph Estrada, Basilan Island governor Wahab Akbar and one of his town mayor Paruk Majirul, have finally joined the Liberal Party.

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The International media watch dog, Reporters Sans Borders, has released Thursday its 2007 Annual Press Freedom Report that showed the Philippines failed to stem the wave of violence against Filipino journalists.

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ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE (Rochelle Hilario / 01 Feb) - Shortly after securing final government approval of its Social Development and Management Plan (SDMP), TVI Resource Development Philippines (TVIRD), through its Community Relations and Development Office (CReDO), recently conducted its first Information-Education-Communication (IEC) campaign and Action Planning Activity under the Plan in Barangay Makiang, one the Company’s impact communities near its gold-copper mine at Sitio Canatuan in Barangay Tabayo in Siocon town here.

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NORTH COTABATO (Mindanao Examiner / 01 Feb) – Muslim villagers have began returning home after three days of clashes between Muslim rebels and troops in the town of Midsayap in North Cotabato province forced thousands of people to flee.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 01 Feb) – A U.S. Navy ship, the USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), is expected to arrive in the Philippines for a goodwill mission, the U.S. Embassy announced Thursday.

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Mohammad Jamal Khalifah, the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden was killed during a robbery during a business trip to Madagascar, where he had invested in gem mines. Khalifah was a key financier of several Southeast Asian militant groups, particularly those in the Philippines.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 01 Feb) – The Philippine economy is growing at a robust rate with traditional goods, such as garments and agricultural sectors now being overtaken by information and communication technology (ICT) and the electronics industries, a senior Filipino government official said.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 01 Feb) – Security forces raided early Thursday a hideout of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group in Manila’s suburb and killed a suspected bomber and captured four others, including their leader, officials said.

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DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 01 Feb) - The National Democratic Front accused Manila on Thursday of militarization after authorities designated many areas in the southern Philippines as election “hot spots”.

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MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 01 Feb) - At least 21 church people had been killed in a spate of attacks the past years in the Philippines, aside from hundreds of militant leaders and activists opposed to the Arroyo government.

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