Kabang, the female aspin (native dog) who saved the nieces of her owner from being hit by a motorcycle, is expected to come home from the United States before school opens this year.
The ransom had changed hands and a day had passed, but Australian Warren Rodwell remained in the Abu Sayyaf’s hands. Basilan Vice Gov. Al Rasheed Sakalahul felt he had been duped and he wanted to unleash hell on the kidnappers.
The Abu Sayyaf bandit counted the money in front of Basilan Vice Gov. Al Rasheed Sakalahul. It was P4 million. And early on Saturday morning, Australian Warren Richard Rodwell walked to freedom after 15 months in the hands of the al-Qaida-linked band of kidnappers.
How much did the freedom of Australian national Richard Warren Rodwell cost?
An Australian national, who was kidnapped by armed men in December 2012, was released by his abductors, the military said on Thursday.
A female refugee from Sabah died while giving birth in a hospital in the eastern Malaysian state on Monday after failing to get passage for her and her family to Tawi-Tawi.
More stories about the alleged brutality of the Malaysian police have surfaced despite a denial by the Malaysian government of a Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) story detailing how Filipinos were being treated in Sabah.
The Philippine Navy intercepted two motorboats carrying 80 people from strife-torn Sabah on Friday.
Thousands of Tausug from Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi have sailed to Sabah to reinforce members of the so-called royal army of the sultanate of Sulu who are fighting it out with Malaysian security forces, a Moro National Liberation Front official said Tuesday.
Malaysian employers have laid off a number of Filipino workers in Sabah in light of the tensions created by the “homecoming” of the heirs of the sultanate of Sulu and armed members of their “royal army” to press their proprietary claims over the eastern portion of the island, relatives of the workers and local officials in Mindanao said.
“We never thought we’d make it out alive.”
Muslims, no matter how hurt they are, should not resort to violence in protesting against the anti-Islam film, “The Innocence of Muslims”, Muslim clerics in Mindanao said.
