Mindanao power firm on alert for Monday polls

Mid-term elections have the Philippines' southern island of Mindanao on high alert amid fears of violence. Cotabato City, Mindanao, Philippines - As the Philippines prepare to vote in mid-term polls on May 13, tensions and expectations are rife in ...

Gingoog lies in a remote, mountainous area in the southern island of Mindanao where the rebel group has been fighting the government since 1969. Jorge Madlos, a spokesman for the NPA, told AFP it would continue to man checkpoints to "impose ...

Communist rebels stand in formation on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on December 26, 2010. The Philippines says that peace talks with communist rebels have collapsed and a target of ending the decades-long insurgency by 2016 is ...

The attackers opened fire on a truck carrying Mayor Abdulmalik Manamparan and his supporters on southern Mindanao island late Thursday, local military commander Colonel Ricardo Jalad said. "They killed my granddaughter," Manamparan, 62, told AFP ...

(IRIN) - The oppressive summer heat bore down on this impoverished southern Philippine town on Mindanao Island as thousands gathered to hear a 'proxy candidate' of the country's largest Muslim rebel force address the crowd on the eve of recently ...

COTABATO CITY, April 10 (PIA) -- A team from the Department of Health-Manila and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) under Dr. Kadil Jojo Sinolinding, Jr. is visiting Bongo Island, in Parang, Maguindanao particularly the cholera outbreak ...

When Typhoon Washi (locally known as Sendong) hit the southern Philippines's Mindanao Island in December 2011, breast-milk substitutes, including formula, turned up in evacuation centres even though they are banned under the country's Milk Code. The ...

TODAY in Isyu Mindanao, John Paul Seniel explores the majestic beauty of Siargao, a teardrop-shaped island in Surigao del Norte, popularly known as the "Surfing Capital of the Philippines." One of the best known surfing reef waves in Siargao with ...

11:46 pm KALAMANSIG, Sultan Kudarat, May 3 ? Unexplored and enchanting, Balut Island is one of the best-kept secrets in Mindanao which beach lovers should ought to explore this summer or anytime of the year. Sparsely inhabited by people, the island ...