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Abducted Australian freed 15 months after VOL. 2, No. 261
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March 25, 2013
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By AL JACINTO Editor-at-large
Z A M B OA N G A City––Abu Sayyaf militants have freed before dawn Saturday a kidnapped Australian adventurer following a successful government negotiations in the southern Philippines, officials said.
Officials said the 54-year old Warren Rodwell, who was kidnapped in December 2011 from his seaside home in Zamboanga Sibugay’s Ipil town, was safely released in Pagadian City in Zamboanga del Sur province at around 1.30 a.m. Army General Ricardo See Abducted/p.10
Photos provided by the Philippine military show freed kidnapped Australian adventurer Warren Rodwell being escorted Saturday, March 23, 2013 by U.S. soldiers and unidentified Caucasians
at the Western Mindanao Command headquarters in Zamboanga City where he was flown on a U.S. chopper from Pagadian City where Abu Sayyaf militants linked to al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya
released him. The U.S. military prevented journalists from covering Rodwell's arrival and barred them from any interview for a still unknown reason.
Orochamber, Oro govt launch ‘Emergency Call 888’ CAGAYAN de Oro City––After conducting a series of stakeholders’ meetings, the country’s Hall of Fame as Most Outstanding Chamber of Commerce, the Orochamber in cooperation with the National Telecommunications
Commission (NTC), the city government of the previous disaster response hotline 888 Cagayan de Oro and the Philippine National operated during typhoon Pablo. This emergency direct call access will Police (PNP) will officially launch today (March 25, 2013) the “emergency call 888.” enable local residents to immediately report See Launch/p.10 Emergency call 888 is an improvement of
Stakeholders gather for nat’l caravan on World Water Day By Mike Banos Editor-at-large
Stakeholders from government and civil society joined the March 22 global celebration of World Water Day at the Limketkai Rotunda last Friday, March 21. The United Nations proclaimed the first World Water Day on March 22, 1993. Since then it is celebrated every year to highlight the need to protect fresh water Stakeholders from various sectors affix their signatures on the Pledge of Commitment to reduce their water footprint sources around the world. during the World Water Day celebration hosted by the CDO See Water/p.10
Water District on March 22. Photo by Mike Banos, NPN
Surigao Norte cops on alert for NPA foundation, local poll campaign season By ROEL CATOTO of MindaNews.com
SURIGAO City––The Surigao del Norte Police rovincial Office has placed its units on high alert ahead of the 44th founding anniversary of the New People’s Army (NPA) on March 29.
Senior Supt. Roel Obusan, provincial police director, said the heightened security alert in the area “was meant to thwart threats from the NPA rebels and other lawless elements.” Obusan said the provincial police command is continuously implementing See Season/p.10
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Good weather
THE country will experience generally good weather with clear skies this coming Lenten Season, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Sunday. In an interview, weather See Weather/p.10
Coal-based
CAGAYAN de Oro City–– Eight-five percent or 500 of the 588 megawatt additional power generation in Mindanao by 2016 is coal-based, Department of Energy planning chief Michael Sinocruz said. Sinocruz told the See Coal/p.10
Pinoys rescued
ZAMBOANGA City––A Philippine Nav y patrol boat rescued more than 160 Filipinos af ter spending four days drifting at sea on a wooden boat that escaped the violence in Sabah where Malaysian security forces are fighting armed members of the Sultanate of Sulu, officials said Friday. Officials said the boat’s See Rescued/p.10
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