Bangsamoro referendum: An opportunity for sustainable peace The autonomy referendum in restive Mindanao may mark a new beginning for the Philippines and a victory for Duterte.

A better-governed Bangsamoro region would mean more people getting adequate support from the government – better access to schools, hospitals and health centers, livelihood opportunities.

The law, details of which were not immediately available, calls for the creation of a self-administered territory within what the Philippines called Bangsamoro, meaning “Moro nation ...

At a hearing on a resolution filed by Mindanaoan Senator Guingona, resource persons debate which localities will be included in the future Bangsamoro entity MANILA, Philippines – What areas will ...

Part of that concerned the historic Bangsamoro Organic Law, better known by its previous name, the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), designed to move the Philippines closer to working out an arrangement ...

The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao faces multiple proposals to postpone its first regular elections beyond May 2025. While technical and legal challenges provide surface justification ...

Actually the framework agreement already defines the Bangsamoro people as “those who at the time of conquest and colonization were considered natives or original inhabitants” of the areas in question.

With the Bangsamoro Peace Framework Agreement between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the government having been signed, a Transition Commission will be drafting the bill for Congress ...

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) confirmed that the Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections will proceed as scheduled on Oct. 23, even as questions remain unresolved over the redistribution of seven ...

The commentary “Religious police in the Bangsamoro?” by Araceli Z. Lorayes (Opinion, 6/13/15) alerts the reader to a provision in the BBL that did not mean much to me when I first read it. This is ...

Politics, Asia - Pacific Bangsamoro chief minister focuses on moral governance In interview with Anadolu Agency, Al-Hajj Murad invites Turkish investment in education, health, infrastructure sectors ...

The Bangsamoro entity moved closer to realization yesterday as President Aquino submitted to Congress the draft of the basic law creating the special autonomous Muslim region.