MANILA - AL-Qaeda-linked militants holding three Red Cross workers in the southern Philippines are demanding that troops be withdrawn from the area as a condition for their release, a governor said on Monday.
PORT DICKSON (Malaysia) - POLICE have arrested three men and a woman to facilitate investigations into the abduction of a college student whose body was found near a Sua Betong plantation here on Sunday.
MANILA - SOME 800,000 Filipinos are in danger of losing their jobs this year as the global economic slowdown hits the export sector, Economic Planning Secretary Ralph Recto said on Monday.
MANILA - THE Philippine government said on Monday it was safe for thousands of evacuees in the south to return home now that fighting between Muslims separatists and troops had abated.
