By Aruna Gopinath PHILIPPINE policymakers and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front must realise that a peace agreement on southern Mindanao can only work if all the parties drop prejudices and end mistrust against each other, writes ARUNA GOPINATH.

Text of report in English by Philippine newspaper Philippine Daily Inquirer website on 17 June [Report by Orlando Dinoy with reports from Charlie C. Senase, Jeoffrey Maitem, Dennis Jay C.

By Manny Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine police said on Thursday they suspected a kidnap-for-ransom gang was behind a powerful blast that wounded three police officers at the local Muslim government compound in the southern city of Cotabato.

By Manny Mogato COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Businessman Antonio Santos Jr. is having sleepless nights. His family's property in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao is being taken over by groups of Muslims displaced by armed conflict.

MANILA (Reuters) - At least 10 people, most of them teenagers, were killed when a gunman opened fired at a packed billiard hall on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, police said on Monday.