A Maguindanaon woman has accused over a regional television network two members of the Ampatuan clan—including former Energy Undersecretary Zamzamin Ampatuan—of forcing her to have sex with eight men tagged in the Maguindanao massacre.
(UPDATE) The Supreme Court has dismissed the petition of a Mindanao-based lawyer to stop Congress from proceeding with its plan to postpone the elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in August.
A bill postponing the August 2011 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has been sent to the archive of the Senate but immediately brought back for plenary discussions.
Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte personally fetched, on Tuesday, a female member of the New People’s Army (NPA) from a hospital in Bislig, Surigao del Sur, where she was treated for her wounds sustained in Sunday’s firefight with government troops near Compostela Valley.
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima said sleep out privileges will no longer be given to inmates, but living out status will stay.
A day after the 138,000-strong Philippine National Police was placed on full alert status weeks ahead of Independence Day, its spokesman said that they will also be implementing a nationwide security and public safety plan before classes kick off next week.
MANILA, Philippines—Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said it would not be advisable for President Benigno Aquino III to appoint the resigned head of the Bureau of Corrections to another government post. “Personally, I don’t think it’s advisable since he (Ernesto Diokno) resigned due to a very controversial and anomalous issue,” Lacson told reporters on Tuesday. “I [...]
President Aquino is mulling on convening a multi-agency meeting to tackle various problems besetting the prison system in the country, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Tuesday.
The UN’s human rights office says it has received reports from Yemen that more than 50 people have been killed since Sunday by pro-government forces.
NATO pounded Libya’s capital on Tuesday, only hours after South Africa’s president left following talks that produced only a commitment to a peace plan already rejected by the military alliance and rebels.
Authorities tracked three more stolen vehicles in a warehouse in Taguig City Tuesday morning, two days after they swooped down on a warehouse that stored stolen vehicles in the same area, a police spokesperson said.
(UPDATE) Fourteen people were injured in a vehicular collision Tuesday at the toll plaza along Coastal Road in Parañaque City, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority said.
KATHMANDU—A decade after Nepal’s crown prince stunned the world by gunning down nine family members, mystery still surrounds the massacre that plunged the monarchy into a crisis from which it never recovered. Many Nepalese believe they may never know the truth about the night of June 1, 2001, when a drink- and drugs-fuelled prince Dipendra [...]
