At an early age, Muslim children are taught that Ramadan is not mere food deprivation. For 9-year-old Amir Hussien, the Islamic practice would mean a monthlong interval instead of his parents’ usual treat for him and his sister Ma’amor Rubayyat to fast-food chains during daytime on weekends.
Burglars broke into the apartment unit rented by the lawyer of Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangudadatu and carted away some P5 million worth of cash and valuables, police said Thursday.
Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said Tuesday he expected more heads to roll as efforts to identify officials responsible for issuing permits to various logging companies in the five-province region continued.
Newly appointed caretaker Gov. Mujiv Hataman vowed to implement reforms in the five-province Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao with good governance and security and peace and order topping his administration’s agenda.
The national government has virtually taken control over the financial resources of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in the absence of officers in charge (OICs) for the region.
The national government has virtually taken control over the financial resources of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, the new group that Ameril Umra Kato had founded after breaking away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, has allegedly shut down its camp in Maguindanao to visitors.
For “giving up arms,” at least 20 child soldiers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) got educational benefits under a regional government program with international funding agencies, an official said.
For “giving up arms,” at least 20 child-soldiers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) got educational benefits under a regional government program with international funding agencies, an official said.
Millions of Muslims converged early Sunday for the Eid’l Adha (The Feast of Sacrifice) prayers in open fields as religious leaders across the globe called for world peace.
The conflict in Southern Philippines is among the primary issues that the US government wants to take up with the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), White House officials said on Thursday.
Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo’s presence here during the September 12 twin explosions might have just been incidental and he was not probably the actual target of the perpetrators, a police official said Friday.
Formal talks to end a deadly separatist conflict in Mindanao resume in Malaysia on Monday with the Aquino administration serving notice it would not sign any peace agreement with Moro rebels unless it was first presented to the people. On the eve of the resumption of the negotiations, administration officials also said they expected a [...]
