I was on a trip for some documentary film project in Mindanao, the beleaguered region in southern Philippines that has lately figured in international news once again due to radical Islamists and their kidnap-for-ransom enterprise, when I found...

Human traffickers are preying on children displaced by the Muslim insurgency in Mindanao. The Visayan Forum Foundation, which monitors human trafficking in the Philippines, said groups trawl evacuation camps on Mindanao looking for child laborers to be...

More than 11,000 refugees fled their homes in the interior villages of Lanao Del Norte where the army launched a mopping up operation against MILF groups after the latter attacked a series of seaboard towns in September. Immediate medical relief had to...

Suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels allegedly posing as evacuees in Maguindanao province have been arrested. Some rebels under Umbra Kato’s command have been infiltrating evacuation centers to evade arrest.

The UNWFP said the situation in Mindanao could not yet be described as a “humanitarian crisis.” There is still enough food and supplies to help hundreds of thousands of people who have fled their homes to avoid getting caught in the crossfire of...

Pirates took hostage at least 17 fishermen aboard four fishing boats off Tawi-Tawi province in Mindanao, southern Philippines. The report said the pirates, armed with M-16 rifles, attacked the fishermen off Tawi-Tawi.