Manila - A 54-year-old Frenchwoman was shot dead in the Philippines and three suspects, including a Frenchman, were arrested for alleged involvement in the murder, police said Thursday.
Genevieve Sonia Mas, who arrived in the country last December, was killed while riding a tricycle in San Carlos City in Negros Occidental province, 540 kilometers south of Manila, on Tuesday.
Cotabato City, Philippines - Three people were injured when a bomb exploded in an amusement centre in a southern Philippine city, a regional military spokesman said Thursday.
Colonel Jonathan Ponce said the improvised explosive device went off late Wednesday inside the bathroom of the amusement centre in Cotabato City, 960 kilometres south of Manila.
Manila - The Philippines' inflation rate inched up to 7.3 per cent in February due to higher food and fuel prices, the government said Thursday.
The February index was up from 7.1 per cent in January and 5.4 per cent in the same month in 2008, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO).
The NSO said the higher inflation was "mainly due to the upward price adjustments in the heavily weighted food items, particularly rice, meat, corn and eggs."
Cotabato City, Philippines - Three children were killed in the southern Philippines when a mortar accidentally exploded while they were playing with it, a military report said Wednesday.
Five more children were wounded in the explosion that occurred late Tuesday in Buldon town in Maguindanao province, 930 kilometres south of Manila, the report added.
The children were playing with an 81-millimetre mortar, which accidentally exploded inside a rice mill building.
Manila - A communist rebel leader accused of directing the guerrillas' extortion activities in the central Philippines has been arrested, a military spokesman said Tuesday.
Eduardo Sarmiento, head of a regional communist party committee in the central region of Visayas, was apprehended on February 24 in Manila.
Brigadier General Guadencio Pangilinan said "high explosives" were seized from Sarmiento during his arrest by a joint team of police officers and army intelligence operatives.
Manila - A 54-year-old Frenchwoman was shot dead in the Philippines and three suspects, including a Frenchman, were arrested for alleged involvement in the murder, police said Thursday.
Manila - Philippine share prices rose 2.03 per cent on Thursday buoyed by increases in Asian stock markets and on Wall Street.
Cotabato City, Philippines - Three people were injured when a bomb exploded in an amusement centre in a southern Philippine city, a regional military spokesman said Thursday.
Manila - The Philippines' inflation rate inched up to 7.3 per cent in February due to higher food and fuel prices, the government said Thursday.
Cotabato City, Philippines - Three children were killed in the southern Philippines when a mortar accidentally exploded while they were playing with it, a military report said Wednesday.
