December 8, 2009
web MANILA, 8 December 2009 (IRIN) – The government and international donors should not forget the crisis in southern Mindanao after a shift in focus to flood-ravaged Manila and the main southern island of Luzon, officials say.
November 17, 2009
DAVAO CITY The government is drafting ‘with the utmost secrecy’ a comprehensive peace agreement to be presented to the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), according to North Cotabato Vice Governor Emmanuel Piñol. Speaking at the Kapihan sa Davao at Café Rysus at the SM City mall, Piñol said he learned about the new document ‘from a reliable source.’ He said there was ’something fishy’ in the new draft agreement…
August 22, 2009
By Llanesca T. Panti, Reporter FAKE United Kingdom (UK) visa applications from the Philippines are increasing, an official of the UK Border Agency said Thursday. Ed Mackie, the agency’s regional manager for North East Asia (Australasia), revealed that his office has intercepted 657 sham visa applications from the Philippines in 2008 from 584 in 2007.
August 17, 2009
ALEOSAN, North Cotabato, PhilippinesThe Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Mindanao will start a new program that would help children in armed conflict survive the psychological impact of war in their lives.
August 11, 2009
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is moving to freeze the assets of a North Korean…
August 11, 2009
The head of one of South Korea’s largest conglomerates has held a second day of talks in North Korea to secure the release of a detained worker. Hyun Jeong-eun, the head of Hyundai Group, is also discussing restarting its joint projects…
August 11, 2009
A young Asian elephant found itself, literally, in a tight spot after it…
August 11, 2009
CISHAN, Taiwan (AP) — Military helicopters ferried stricken villagers to safety Tuesday from remote Taiwanese communities hit by Typhoon Morakot that left at least 70 dead, but hundreds more were still feared trapped by a torrent of mud and rock that buried their homes. Choppers hovered over affected villages looking for signs of life
August 11, 2009
INDIA has detained a North Korean ship and was searching it for radioactive material, the first time a ship had been seized and boarded under sanctions adopted by the UN Security Council in June, reports said yesterday. The cargo ship, M.V. San, was spotted and…
August 9, 2009
SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea has been using Bill Clinton's visit to Pyongyang last week to promote leader Kim Jong-Il's son as the communist nation's next head of state, a news report said Sunday. Former US president Clinton traveled to Pyongyang last week to take home two journalists jailed for having illegally entered North Korea. Seoul's Yonhap news agency, quoting an unnamed source, said…
August 9, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea has signaled that it wants to improve relations with the United States, U.S. national security adviser Jim Jones said on Sunday. “The North…
August 9, 2009
LEEDS, England (AFP) – Australia thrashed England by an innings and 80 runs as they won the fourth Test at Headingley here on Sunday inside three days to level the series at 1-1 and revive their bid to retain the Ashes. The result left the Ashes all square ahead of the fifth and final Test at The Oval starting on August 20. England, who resumed Sunday in the dire position of 82 for five in their second innings, still 261 runs behind Australia's first innings 445 and facing the prospect of a record-breaking home defeat, were bowled out for 263.
August 8, 2009
Indian coast guards have detained a “suspicious” North Korean cargo ship, but a preliminary search revealed it was carrying sugar rather than illicit cargo. The vessel was detained after a six-hour chase off India’s southeastern coast on Saturday and taken to Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. The MV Mu San was pursued by coast guards who opened fire above the vessel after it attempted to flee from an island in the Andaman and Nicobar group, Commander Vijay Singh, a spokesman for the Indian coast guard, said.
August 8, 2009
Photo taken 04 Aug 2009 shows house belonging to supporters of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, destroyed in Dera Ismail…
