Manila - The Philippine military on Monday rejected warnings by Muslim separatist rebels that hostilities would escalate in the country's troubled south without international peacekeepers monitorin

Manila - An Army lieutenant was killed Monday in an attack by communist rebels in a remote northern Philippine town, a military report said.

Manila - Six people were killed in two fires that also left more than 3,000 people homeless in the Philippines, police said Thursday.

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Manila  - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo inaugurated on Tuesday the Philippine leg of a 550-million-dollar fiber optic cable network that will connect several South-East Asian countries with the United States.

The 20,000-kilometre Asia American Gateway (AAG) network will link Malaysia to the US via Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii and the US West Coast through an undersea cable system.

The network is scheduled to be completed within the year.