MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections on Tuesday decided to postpone the village and youth council elections in Mindanao, saying that holding a free, orderly and peaceful election in the ...

COTABATO CITY, Philippines - Imam Musa, a Yakan cleric, was so delighted seeing photos on Facebook of the Basilan model village inside the compound here of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ...

No one dies, but dozens have to abandon their homes. Suspicions fall on a new armed group, born from a split in the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Tomorrow, a new round of peace talks start ...

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines — Judging from the vote-buying pattern set by the recent youth and village elections, Mayor Samuel Co said he would be retiring from politics in 2025, and ...

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Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Some local organizations in Mindanao on Tuesday expressed support for the proposed postponement of the October 2017 ...

TIMANAN VILLAGE, Philippines, October 10 (UNHCR) - Probably few people have more right to complain than the 300 remote forest dwellers outside this small village. Chased from their ancestral ...

The island of Mindanao has long been the deadliest place in the Philippines for individuals defending their land and environment from extractives and agribusiness interests. The threat to these ...

THE Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) filed anti-graft charges against nine village officials in Northern Mindanao in connection with the distribution of the government’s cash aid ...