1stof a series: Submitting an “acceptable” Bangsamoro Basic Law HIROSHIMA (MindaNews/01 July) — For the second time in the history of the peace process between the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), President Benigno Simeon Aquino III and MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim met in Japan last week, again in […]
HIROSHIMA—This city lives on in the minds of many people as the place in the world where the “atomic age” was born. It was here where, Aug. 6, 1945, a Monday, a nuclear bomb was dropped by a plane piloted by Americans, immediately killing an estimated 80,000 residents. The horrors of Hiroshima and then Nagasaki […]
HIROSHIMA (MindaNews/24 June) – It wasn’t a two-hour talk like their first face-to-face meeting in a hotel near Narita airport in Tokyo on August 4, 2011 but President Benigno Simeon Aquino III and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim met for “15 to 20 minutes” in a room in Sheraton Hiroshima […]
MANILA, Philippines (4th UPDATE) – After a 12-hour session, the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) arrived at a compromise on wealth-sharing at about 10:30 pm on Saturday, July 13.
President Benigno Aquino III on Friday sent two Palace officials to Kuala Lumpur to boost the morale of peace negotiators, a day after talks to end four decades of Moro insurgency in Mindanao adjourned without an agreement.