Peace process gaining headway (Special Report)
By Ben Cal
MANILA (PNA) -- The never-give-up policy of the government in the peace process is paying off.
Upon assuming office a year ago, President Benigno S. Aquino III declared that the government was ready to resume peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Communist National Democratic Front (NDF) without pre-condition and repeated it in his first State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA).
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PHL hails U.S. House resolution calling for 'peaceful and collaborative resolution of disputes in the South China Sea'
By Faye P. Velasco
MANILA, July 17 (PNA) -- The Philippines welcomed on Sunday the introduction of House Resolution No. 352 in the United States House of Representatives calling for "a peaceful and collaborative resolution of maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea and its environs and other maritime areas adjacent to the East Asian mainland."
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AFP modernization program remains an elusive dream (Special Report)
By Ben Cal
MANILA (PNA) –- Time was when the Philippines was second to none in Southeast Asia in terms of military muscle. Filipinos enjoyed that period of military superiority immediately after World War II until the early 1970s.
Today, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) found itself dismally in the lowest echelon among neighboring Asian nations.
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