By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 4 2013 9:01 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 April) – The moderator of the press conference had to butt in to remind reporters that the press conference was not about Sabah but about the Transition… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 2 2013 8:37 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 April) – Seven more alleged members of the “Royal Security Forces of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo” were charged in Sabah, Malaysia Monday for allegedly… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on March 25 2013 6:24 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 March) – The daughter of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III questioned the credibility of Malaysia to continue facilitating the peace talks between the Government of… »
By Ruby Thursday More on March 25 2013 6:18 pm
Princess Jacel Kiram, daughter of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, one of the heirs of the Sultan of Sulu, speaks at a press conference in Davao City on Monday, March 25. Kiram… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 25 2013 11:30 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 March) — The government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panels are supposed to meet today, March 25, until March 27 in Kuala Lumpur to work on… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 22 2013 4:50 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 March) – The eight alleged members of the “Royal Security Forces of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo” who were charged for waging war and terrorism… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on March 21 2013 5:29 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 21 March) – Peace advocates warned Thursday a possible derailment of the peace talks between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 18 2013 12:05 am
JOLO, Sulu (MindaNews/17 March) – Claiming Malaysia acted in bad faith, the lawyer of the heirs of the Sultanate of Sulu said Malaysia “must immediately turn over” Sabah to the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 18 2013 12:01 am
PATIKUL, Sulu (MindaNews/17 March) – At the privately-owned Hadji Warid Wharf here on Friday noon, Amelia laughed as she admitted how she repeatedly texted Ibrahim, her 20-year old son in… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on March 16 2013 12:45 pm
BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi (MindaNews/16 March)—With the increase in price of gasoline coming from Sabah, Malaysia, several roadside gasoline vendors here have been forced to close shop as tricycle drivers were forced… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on March 13 2013 5:41 pm
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/13 March)— Price control measures are being put in place in the island-province of Tawi-Tawi in the aftermath of the Sabah crisis that triggered an increase in prices… »
By Amina Rasul on March 12 2013 12:58 am
We are celebrating Women’s Month. March 8 was Women’s Day, made possible by legislation authored by my mother, former Senator Santanina Rasul, who was not just the first Muslim woman… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on March 12 2013 12:24 am
CAMP SIONGCO, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao (MindaNews / 11 March) – While Malaysian security forces on Monday entered the seventh day of military and police operations against a Moro group… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 11 2013 10:01 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 March) – The chair of the Regional Human Rights Commission of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (RHRC-ARMM) is appealing for an end to violence in Sabah… »
By Macario D. Tiu on March 11 2013 7:46 pm
DAKBAYAN SA DABAW (MindaNews / 11 Marso) – Sa mga rekord sa Tsina, kapila natala ang Sulu nga aktibo sa internasyonal nga treyd sa wala pa moabot ang mga katsila.… »
By Jesus G. Dureza on March 10 2013 7:51 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 March) — I was in Zamboanga City over the weekend to attend the Jaycee Senate Zamboanga Chapter Induction there. I was glad I took the trip. When… »
By Amina Rasul on March 10 2013 7:49 pm
It is indeed timely that the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has issued a call for a ceasefire and dialogue to end the violence. Sultan Jamalul III has… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on March 9 2013 8:30 pm
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/09 March)— United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on Friday met with Malaysia’s permanent representative to the UN to reiterate his hope that the crisis in Sabah be… »
By Patricio P. Diaz on March 9 2013 12:27 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/08 March) – When Sulu Sultan Mohammed Jamalul Alam leased the Sultanate’s part of North Borneo to the British North Borneo Company in 1878 never did he… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 8 2013 7:30 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 March) — Civil society organizations in Malaysia and the Philippines are urging Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak Najib, President Benigno Aquino and Sulu Sultan… »
By Statement on March 8 2013 7:29 pm
NOTE: list of signatories as of 1:35 p.m. March 8, 2013 JOINT STATEMENT OF MALAYSIAN-PHILIPPINE CSOs March 7, 2013 Standoff in Lahad Datu: Engage in Dialogue Now with… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on March 7 2013 11:32 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 March) — President Benigno Aquino III said Thursday he has ordered the Department of Justice, National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police to gather evidence… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 7 2013 5:44 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 March) – Sultan Jamalul Kiram III declared Thursday noon a unilateral ceasefire in Sabah, Malaysia in a bid to prevent further loss of lives but Malaysia rejected… »
By Walter I. Balane on March 7 2013 5:43 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/07 March) – The government is unprepared in case Malaysia decides to deport en mass Filipino workers from Sabah where some 200 followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on March 7 2013 5:43 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 March) – President Benigno Aquino reiterated Wednesday night the need for sobriety and “reasonable dialogue” to stop the crisis in Sabah from escalating, claiming the group that… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 5 2013 4:05 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 March) — Invoking the need to “safeguard the dignity and sovereignty of the nation as demanded by the rakyat (people),” Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on March 5 2013 3:59 pm
KORONADAL CITY(MindaNews/05 March) — Ranking officials in Tawi-Tawi appealed Tuesday for a peaceful end to the conflict in Sabah, Malaysia to prevent further loss of lives and its impact on… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 4 2013 9:40 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 March) – Calls for an end to violence in Sabah and to resolve the conflict through dialogue have been mounting, as the death toll since the stand-off… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on March 4 2013 9:39 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 March) — Opposition senatorial candidate Jackie Ponce Enrile said the Philippines and Malaysia must exert all efforts to resolve the Sabah issue “swiftly and peacefully” even as… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 3 2013 10:03 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 February) – “Cooler heads” must prevail to stop the bloodshed in Sabah from escalating, Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chair Nur Misauri said as he urged the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 2 2013 8:22 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 March) – Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has expressed sadness that the standoff in Lahad Datu, Sabah from February 9 ended in bloodshed.on March… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 1 2013 6:28 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 March) – “The standoff is now over.” Quoting a report from Malaysian Ambassador to the Philipipines, Dato Mohd Zamri Mohd Kassim, Assistant Secretary Raul Hernandez, spokesperson of… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on March 1 2013 6:28 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/01 March)— Two peace advocates in Lanao del Norte urged Friday the Philippine and Malaysian governments to peacefully resolve the Sabah conflict arising from the claims of the… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on March 1 2013 6:27 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/01 March)—Officials of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the breakaway Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighter (BIFF) kept mum Friday after skirmishes reportedly erupted between followers of the… »
By Antonio G. M. La Viña on March 1 2013 11:00 am
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/01 March) — The Sabah question has been dormant for almost half a century. The last time it came into the spotlight was in 1968 when the Philippine… »
By H. Marcos C. Mordeno on February 28 2013 10:18 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/28 February) – Like in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide,” President Benigno Aquino III has displayed a split personality type of diplomacy. On one hand,… »
By Patricio P. Diaz on February 27 2013 7:02 pm
I. The Question GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 27 Feb) – When we started writing this piece in the afternoon of February 25, the followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on February 25 2013 8:29 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 February) –The Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front resume negotiations in Kuala Lumpur today (Monday) on the four annexes to the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) … »
By Patricio P. Diaz on February 22 2013 11:42 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 21 February) – Last February 11 (9 in another report), Rajah Mudah Agbimuddin Kiram, the brother and heir apparent of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III of… »
By Ed Lingao / PCIJ on February 21 2013 1:11 pm
FOR SEVERAL DAYS NOW, Manila’s broadsheets have been bannering the confrontation between followers of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and Malaysian authorities in a small town in Sabah. Reports have it… »
By Jesus G. Dureza on February 18 2013 6:24 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 February) — I was shaken a bit when I learned that a group loyal to the Kiram family of Sulu publicly announced their intentions of pushing for… »
