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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 (Philippines)
| Wearing red t-shirts, Iligan City residents troop to the streets to protest the inclusion of eight of the city's 44 barangays among the possible areas in the expanded Moro homeland. A similar protest was also held in Zamboanga City. (Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro/Bobby Timonera) |
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THE Philippine Supreme Court blocked Monday the signing of a preliminary accord granting minority Muslims an expanded homeland as part of a deal to end decades of an Islamic insurgency in Mindanao.
The accord between the Philippine government and the rebel Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) identifying area to be included in an enlarged autonomous Muslim region was supposed to be signed Tuesday in Malaysia, which has been brokering the negotiations.
Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo
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Bacal still owes victim's kin
ALMOST a month after figuring in a fatal road accident, City Councilor Alden Bacal had yet to fully settle the P200,000 he promised as civil liability to the family of his 15-year-old victim.
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Health department: HIV cases up by 14%
THIS year saw a marked increase of 14 percent in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive cases.
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Lumads: ‘Respect us’
AS THE government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) gear towards an agreement defining the expanse of a homeland for the Moro people, leaders of indigenous peoples’ communities in Mindanao have reiterated their call not to include their ancestral territories in the mulled Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE).
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