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                    [Title] => 2 ARMM execs clash at NAIA
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Two ranking officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) almost came to blows at the Domestic Centennial ...

[DatePublished] => 2008-10-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1767161 [AuthorName] => Teddy Molina [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/5342/sfthumbyg6.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 395057 [Title] => Sayyaf seizes 7 workers in Sulu [Summary] => Suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits snatched a factory worker and six construction workers of a government road project, in Parang, Sulu, officials said yesterday.

Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) police director Chief Superintendent Joel Goltiao said a group led by Abu Sayyaf commander Albader Parad snatched the seven men separately.

Goltiao said Parad led his men in abducting a dried fish factory worker in a passenger jeep along the national road in Barangay Silangkan last Monday.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 390455 [Title] => Misuari flies to Sulu today to file candidacy [Summary] => Former governor Nur Misuari of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will fly to Jolo today to file his certificate of candidacy for governor of Sulu.

At Malacañang, officials said the government will respect the decision of the Makati Regional Trial Court granting Misuari temporary liberty.

Misuari is running under the banner of President Arroyo’s party, Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi), according to Haji Gapul, Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) central committee political coordinator.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 388724 [Title] => Misuari to fight Loong for Sulu governorship [Summary] => Detained former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) governor Nur Misuari is seeking the governorship of Sulu, media reports and Muslim leaders said yesterday.

Datu Norodin Lucman, former chairman of the Bangsa Moro Liberation Organization, said political leaders in Mindanao have informed him that Misuari will be running against incumbent Gov. Ben Loong, the acknowledged political kingpin in Sulu.

"Misuari will be running against a formidable enemy and without government support he will surely lose," Lucman told The STAR in a phone interview. [DatePublished] => 2007-03-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1650428 [AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 349553 [Title] => GMA composed despite gaffe [Summary] => President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo never lost her composure when Speaker Jose de Venecia gamely reminded her that she had jumped the gun on delivering her State of the Nation Address even before the singing of the National Anthem.

It was an embarrassing gaffe. But the President hardly broke her stride. She just stopped beside the rostrum and promptly went back to her place between Senate President Manuel Villar and Speaker De Venecia.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136001 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1771372 [AuthorName] => THE SOUTHERN BEAT By Rolly Espina [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 318876 [Title] => Mindanao leaders to deliver signatures for people’s initiative [Summary] => Local government leaders in Mindanao vowed yesterday to produce twice as many target signatures to prove their unity and capability of supporting moves to amend the 1987 Constitution through the people’s initiative mode.

Local officials led by North Cotabato Gov. Emmanuel Piñol, president of the confederation of Mindanao governors, city mayors and municipal mayors, said their initiative will show a peaceful and orderly method of securing change in the government through the direct participation of the people.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 293341 [Title] => Governors ask Congress to end impeachment hearings [Summary] => Local officials from across the nation urged Congress yesterday to terminate the ongoing impeachment proceedings against President Arroyo, which they said are "irrelevant and doomed to fail."

Governors, mayors and other local government officials instead called on lawmakers to focus on more urgent problems, particularly the threat of soaring fuel prices on the economy.

Eastern Samar Gov. Ben Evardone, spokesman for the League of Provinces, said the defeat of the opposition in the hearing last Tuesday was an indication of things to come.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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Two ranking officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) almost came to blows at the Domestic Centennial ...

[DatePublished] => 2008-10-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1767161 [AuthorName] => Teddy Molina [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/5342/sfthumbyg6.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 395057 [Title] => Sayyaf seizes 7 workers in Sulu [Summary] => Suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits snatched a factory worker and six construction workers of a government road project, in Parang, Sulu, officials said yesterday.

Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) police director Chief Superintendent Joel Goltiao said a group led by Abu Sayyaf commander Albader Parad snatched the seven men separately.

Goltiao said Parad led his men in abducting a dried fish factory worker in a passenger jeep along the national road in Barangay Silangkan last Monday.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 390455 [Title] => Misuari flies to Sulu today to file candidacy [Summary] => Former governor Nur Misuari of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will fly to Jolo today to file his certificate of candidacy for governor of Sulu.

At Malacañang, officials said the government will respect the decision of the Makati Regional Trial Court granting Misuari temporary liberty.

Misuari is running under the banner of President Arroyo’s party, Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi), according to Haji Gapul, Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) central committee political coordinator.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 388724 [Title] => Misuari to fight Loong for Sulu governorship [Summary] => Detained former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) governor Nur Misuari is seeking the governorship of Sulu, media reports and Muslim leaders said yesterday.

Datu Norodin Lucman, former chairman of the Bangsa Moro Liberation Organization, said political leaders in Mindanao have informed him that Misuari will be running against incumbent Gov. Ben Loong, the acknowledged political kingpin in Sulu.

"Misuari will be running against a formidable enemy and without government support he will surely lose," Lucman told The STAR in a phone interview. [DatePublished] => 2007-03-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1650428 [AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 349553 [Title] => GMA composed despite gaffe [Summary] => President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo never lost her composure when Speaker Jose de Venecia gamely reminded her that she had jumped the gun on delivering her State of the Nation Address even before the singing of the National Anthem.

It was an embarrassing gaffe. But the President hardly broke her stride. She just stopped beside the rostrum and promptly went back to her place between Senate President Manuel Villar and Speaker De Venecia.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136001 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1771372 [AuthorName] => THE SOUTHERN BEAT By Rolly Espina [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 318876 [Title] => Mindanao leaders to deliver signatures for people’s initiative [Summary] => Local government leaders in Mindanao vowed yesterday to produce twice as many target signatures to prove their unity and capability of supporting moves to amend the 1987 Constitution through the people’s initiative mode.

Local officials led by North Cotabato Gov. Emmanuel Piñol, president of the confederation of Mindanao governors, city mayors and municipal mayors, said their initiative will show a peaceful and orderly method of securing change in the government through the direct participation of the people.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 293341 [Title] => Governors ask Congress to end impeachment hearings [Summary] => Local officials from across the nation urged Congress yesterday to terminate the ongoing impeachment proceedings against President Arroyo, which they said are "irrelevant and doomed to fail."

Governors, mayors and other local government officials instead called on lawmakers to focus on more urgent problems, particularly the threat of soaring fuel prices on the economy.

Eastern Samar Gov. Ben Evardone, spokesman for the League of Provinces, said the defeat of the opposition in the hearing last Tuesday was an indication of things to come.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1165072 [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr. [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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