Manila - The Philippine military is open to allowing homosexuals join the service as long as they pass its rigid physical and mental requirements, armed forces officials said Tuesday.
Brigadier General Gaudencio Pangilinan, civil relations service chief, said the armed forces do not discriminate against homosexuals.
"If you are qualified, I guess we are not biased against the third sex," he said.
Lieutenant Colonel Ernesto Torres, armed forces public affairs chief, said anybody who fulfills the basic requirements will be accepted in the military.
Manila - Two soldiers were killed in a clash with Muslim separatist rebels in the strife-torn southern Philippines, a military spokesman said Monday.
Lieutenant Colonel Ernesto Torres said the fighting erupted Sunday when government troops encountered an undetermined number of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels in Datu Piang town in Maguindanao province, 930 kilometres south of Manila.
Manila - US tourist Claudia was all agog as she went through boxes and boxes of pirated DVDs of top Hollywood movies and music for sale at a stall in a Manila shopping mall.
Armed with a long list of movies and music DVDs requested by friends back in Los Angeles, Claudia scanned the selection and quickly picked her choices that included Oscar-winning movies Slumdog Millionaire and The Reader.
Manila - A despondent army sergeant killed three of his comrades in a shooting spree inside an army camp in the Philippine capital, an army spokesman said Thursday.
One soldier also was wounded when Sergeant Elias Tial ran amok late Wednesday inside their barracks in Fort Bonifacio in Manila's Taguig City, Lieutenant Colonel Romeo Brawner said.
Brawner identified the fatalities as Captain Benito Ramos, First Lieutenant Gerald Fuentes and Master Sergeant Eliseo de la Cruz.
Manila - A despondent army sergeant killed two of his comrades in a shooting spree inside an army camp in the Philippine capital, an army spokesman said Thursday.
Two soldiers also were wounded when Sergeant Elias Tial ran amok late Wednesday inside their barracks in Fort Bonifacio in Manila's Taguig City, Lieutenant Colonel Romeo Brawner said.
Brawner said the suspect, whose father died Saturday, escaped after the incident but the M16 rifle used in the shooting was recovered by his superior.
Manila - Anti-US protestors in the Philippines scuffled with police officers on Wednesday in a rally demanding the abrogation of a treaty that gives special status to US military personnel in the country.
Several demonstrators were hurt in the scuffle near the US embassy in Manila as police officers hit them with truncheons and batons.
The confrontation occurred when about 300 demonstrators attempted to break through a police barricade to march towards the main gate of the embassy compound.
Police officials stressed the group did not have a permit to hold a demonstration in front of the embassy.
Manila - The Philippine military is open to allowing homosexuals join the service as long as they pass its rigid physical and mental requirements, armed forces officials said Tuesday.
Manila - Two soldiers were killed in a clash with Muslim separatist rebels in the strife-torn southern Philippines, a military spokesman said Monday.
Manila - US tourist Claudia was all agog as she went through boxes and boxes of pirated DVDs of top Hollywood movies and music for sale at a stall in a Manila shopping mall.
Manila - A despondent army sergeant killed three of his comrades in a shooting spree inside an army camp in the Philippine capital, an army spokesman said Thursday.
