Acclaimed singer-songwriter Barclay Martin is coming to the Filipino Community Center (FilCom) on Saturday, May 18 at 2:00pm to share a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the making of “Rise and Dream,” an award-winning documentary film shot in the Philippines and produced by the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging.
With the standoff in the disputed Sabah still unresolved, the country’s mission in Kuala Lumpur is hoping to put Mindanao in a positive light on the Malaysian stage.
Australian Warren Rodwell said Monday he was overwhelmed, happy and thankful at finally being free after 15 months as a hostage of Islamic militants in the southern Philippines.
The family of the Australian citizen released after 15 months as a captive of the Abu Sayyaf group expressed hopes, on Monday, that their brother’s captors would soon be brought to justice.
The Filipino wife of freed Australian kidnap victim Richard Warren Rodwell said the Abu Sayyaf only got P4 million and not P7 million as an unnamed official had earlier told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) distanced themselves, on Sunday, from the reported negotiations and payment of a P4-million ransom for the freedom of Australian Warren Richard Rodwell, who was released by his Abu Sayyaf captors on Saturday.
BAGUIO CITY—There’s a fourth star on a redesigned Philippine flag for Sabah, courtesy of a movement that has campaigned for changes in the national banner for four decades to include a ninth ray of its sun to represent Muslims and indigenous Filipinos. The Ninth Ray, a historical reform movement born in 1969 at the [...]
The Philippine National Police is gearing up to help the government in easing the tension in southernmost tip of Western Mindanao due to the Sabah crisis.
Catholic bishops in Mindanao on Saturday issued a manifesto addressed to President Benigno Aquino and other government leaders, asking them “to settle the Sabah crisis and save the people of Mindanao.”
The Australian government has advised its citizens against travelling to central and western Mindanao because of “a very high threat” of violence in the region.
The Philippine government remains in talks with Malaysia despite skirmishes in Sabah over the weekend, but claimed they are not allowed to interfere.
A former Moro rebel official now working as government peace consultant said Saturday members of the Malaysian contingent on the International Monitoring Team have been advised to limit their movements following Friday’s clash between Malaysian security forces and a group of followers of the sultan of Sulu who had been holed up in a village in Lahad Datu to assert their claim to Sabah.
