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Abu Sayyaf militants free Malaysian hostage

By Jim Gomez | November 9, 2015 - 8:10am

Abu Sayyaf militants have freed a Malaysian restaurant manager after six months of jungle captivity in the southern Philippines, but her compatriot remains in their custody in the latest cross-border kidnappings...

Nation

UPDATED: Abu Sayyaf releases Jordanian journalist

December 5, 2013 - 10:34am

Militants in the southern Philippines have released veteran Jordanian TV journalist Baker Atyani, who had been held captive...

Nation

Troops hunt militants despite Ramadan

August 1, 2011 - 7:03pm

An incensed President Benigno Aquino III ordered the Philippine military today to crush Abu Sayyaf militants who killed seven marines and beheaded two of them in last week's fighting.

Military says south is not terror haven

May 5, 2009 - 6:14pm

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Philippine military has rejected a US government assessment that labeled the country's south as a terrorist safe haven, saying Tuesday that many foreign and local Islamic radicals have...

Sex toys find niche in Church-influenced RP

August 25, 2004 - 12:00am

In this predominantly Roman Catholic country where prostitution is illegal and the Church still wields considerable influence on the nation’s morals, it is a brave person who goes into business selling sex toys....

Headlines

‘Sulu will not be battlefield in global war vs terrorism’

By Marichu A. Villanueva | April 23, 2003 - 12:00am

President Arroyo dismissed suggestions yesterday that the Abu Sayyaf stronghold of Sulu will be the next "battlefront" for the US-led global war on terrorism. American troops to be deployed in Sulu later...

Headlines