The Philippine Navy on Thursday said it had deployed vessels to the Sulu Sea to intensify its watch on the Philippine backdoor amid a standoff between Malaysian security forces and a group of armed Filipinos in Lahad Datu town in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah.
Undaunted amidst mounting pressure from both the Philippine and Malaysian governments, Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, the acknowledged leader of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo insisted that his royal decree that authorized the presence of his younger brother, crown prince Rajah Mudah Agbimuddin Kiram and the combined civilian and armed followers in Lahad Datu, Sabah, Malaysia, stays.
The Philippines has obtained support from visiting European Parliament members on the country’s quest for a peaceful solution to the conflicting territorial claims with China through arbitration.
Norway has assured the Aquino administration of continuing support in its peace negotiations with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Tuesday.
The Norwegian government has assured the Aquino administration of its continuing support to the Philippines’ peace negotiations with the Communist Party of the Philippines, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.
The Philippines is now out of the doldrums and on the verge of an economic takeoff, according to two visiting foreign economists.
US-based militant groups on Thursday said the Aquino government had failed to stop human rights abuses, contrary to claims by Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on Wednesday in a lecture at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
The US government commended the Aquino administration for its commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights even as it urged it to intensify efforts to hold perpetrators of extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances accountable for their acts.
About 100 Filipinos massed on Saturday in a predominantly Filipino area in Waipahu to ask President Benigno Aquino III to allow the burial with full military honors of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos at Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig City.
Thousands of Filipinos on knife-edge are resisting evacuation efforts amid rising violence in Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. Concerned activists have accused the Aquino administration officials of either being “very slow” or are “playing down” the situation of the besieged Filipino workers. The US military command has set for Sept. 9, the start of a “demobilization [...]
The Aquino administration is forming a technical working group to come up with a sustainable means to raise “blood money” for migrant Filipinos on death row in the Middle East. Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said “blood money” requests by migrant workers has continuously increased. He said the last blood money request was for the amount [...]
An overseas Filipino worker facing execution in Saudi Arabia has appealed to the Aquino administration to help him raise the “blood money” that would secure his release. Dondon Lanuza, who has been jail in the eastern Saudi city of Dammam since August 2000 for the murder of a Saudi national, has been appealing for donations [...]
