Philippines – Philippines can maintain fiscal stability: President Arroyo (People’s Daily)
Philippines can maintain fiscal stability: President Arroyo (People’s Daily)
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assured to the visiting team of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday the country’s economic managers can maintain fiscal stability. “The IMF need not be concerned about the Philippines’ commitment to fiscal stability which has been duly recognized through our successive credit rating upgrades,” Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Gary Olivar …
Clan link to Philippine killings (BBC News)
The killing of 21 people in the Philippines is being blamed on clan warfare
21 Philippine hostages are fatally shot (MalaysiaNews.net)
By Jim Gomez ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops found 21 bodies in the country’s restive south after dozens of gunmen on Monday hijacked a convoy of politicians and suppor…
21 dead in Mindanao hostage crisis (Asia News Network)
The hostage situation in the Philippines’ Mindanao region has turned into a nightmare.
Gunmen kill 21 in Philippine political violence (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Gunmen kidnapped and killed at least 21 people in the southern Philippines on Monday, apparently in a bid to prevent one of them filing her husband’s nomination for elections next year, the military said.
At least 30 killed in ‘gruesome massacre of civilians’ in the Philippines (CBS 6 Richmond)
Reporting from Seoul and Zamboanga City, Philippines — Authorities discovered the bodies of at least 30 people who had been kidnapped early today in the southern Philippines and called the incident politically motivated slaughter.
At least 21 dead in Philippine ‘political massacre’ (AFP via Yahoo! News)
At least 21 people were murdered in the lawless southern Philippines on Monday in a massacre that the military and relatives of the victims said was likely linked to a political rivalry.
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