The military said today that an Italian priest has been abducted in Zamboanga Sibugay, in the southern Philippines, according to this report. The report identified the priest as John Carlo Bossi, parish priest of Payao town.
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Oliver North, the former colonel in the US Army who figured prominently in the Iran-Contra scandal in the ’80s, recently reported for the Fox News Channel the hunt for terrorists in Sulu. “It was like hitting the jackpot in the global war on terrorism,” North said in his report, referring to the $10 million reward given to Filipinos who provided information that led to the deaths of Abu Sayyaf leader Khadaffy Janjalani and Abu Solaiman. North hosts Fox’s “War Stories.”
“The many ways for landlords to evade CARP, even as government reports increasing land distribution, shows how this so-called agrarian reform program is less about genuinely breaking the domination of landlords and rural elites over land than undercutting peasant resistance to land monopoly in the countryside through the implementation of spurious land reform,” Ibon Foundation says.
Several of the country’s largest business groups are opposed to the national broadband network, a project that aims to provide broadband Internet connection to the country’s barangays, that they say “appears highly questionable.” They ask: “Broadband for barangays of better education and health?”
Gilbert Rey “Jing” Cardino, the Bayan Muna leader in South Cotabato who was abducted by suspected state security forces on Wednesday, has been found alive.
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MANILA — Five people, including a 10-year-old boy, were injured when a bomb went off inside a passenger bus in Matalam, a town in Cotabato province, earlier today.
Members of the party-list group Bayan Muna stage a protest rally in General Santos City on Thursday evening, calling on the military to release their colleague Gilbert Rey Cardio, who was abducted Wednesday by men believed to be government agents in Koronadal City. 
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‘We cannot allow the tragedy of silence to befall us’
