Tawi-Tawi court lowers bail for 38 ‘Royal Army’ members
By Tetch Torres-Tupas
The Tawi-Tawi Regional Trial Court has reduced by 50 percent the bail for the 38 suspected members of the Sulu’s Royal Security Forces.

The Tawi-Tawi Regional Trial Court has reduced by 50 percent the bail for the 38 suspected members of the Sulu’s Royal Security Forces.
No matter how strong Malacañang protests the abuses committed against Filipinos in Sabah in the aftermath of the gunbattle between Malaysian security forces and men of the Sulu sultan, it will just fall on deaf ears.

The Philippines and a Muslim separatist group hope to finalize a peace agreement ending a decades-old insurgency by April, a government negotiator said Thursday.
Malacañang on Sunday pledged that a peace agreement with Moro rebels would not be “done in the dark,” but representatives of the sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo claimed they had been kept out of the loop. They said they were aghast to learn of President Aquino’s secret meeting in Tokyo with Moro Islamic Liberation [...]