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Tag: tawi-tawi

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    Categories News Trafficking Casewatch

    VERA FILES AT 10: Rising number of trafficked fishermen alarms Tawi-Tawi authorities

    By JAKE SORIANO  |  Apr 23, 2018 4:02 AM

    10 years, 10 stories.

    human trafficking, tawi-tawi, vera files at 10

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    Categories Arts & Culture Editor's Pick

    PHOTOS: Celebrating the tradition of seaweed farming in Tawi-Tawi

    By Text by Yang Aming  |  Oct 03, 2017 2:26 PM

    The celebration honors the bounties of the sea, especially seaweed, the top source of livelihood in the province.

    Agal-Agal Festival, Languyan, tawi-tawi

  • Categories Banner Yahoo

    Anywhere but here: Deported human trafficking victims dream of life as illegals in Sabah

    May 17, 2014 9:30 PM

    By JOSEPH ARNEL DELIVERIO BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi—They were arrested by authorities for illegally working in Malaysia, and detained for months in cramped cells where they were fed only twice a day. […]

    human trafficking, Malaysia, sabah, tawi-tawi, Trafficking

  • Categories Banner Yahoo

    Rising number of trafficked fishermen alarms Tawi-Tawi authorities

    Apr 21, 2014 3:40 PM

    By JAKE SORIANO BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi—Tawi-Tawi authorities are alarmed at the growing number of fishermen from the Visayas who end up here after being recruited by human trafficking syndicates to engage […]

    bongao, tawi-tawi, trafficked fishermen, Trafficking

  • Categories Top Stories

    PNP, AFP to beef up forces in Tawi-Tawi

    Mar 29, 2013 4:33 PM

    By BABYLYN KANO-OMAR

    BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi— The Philippine National Police is sending a company of Special Action Forces to Tawi-Tawi, the country’s southernmost province, as security measures are being tightened in the run-up to the May 13 local elections.

    tawi-tawi

  • Categories Top Stories

    Pawikan eggs sold in Tawi-Tawi

    Aug 27, 2012 12:22 PM

    Text and photos by VINCENT GO

    BONGAO, Tawi-tawi – Endangered sea turtles are being harvested in Tawi-tawi seas and sold in the public market of Bongao, despite various laws banning such activities.

    pawikan, pawikan eggs, tawi-tawi, turtle islands

  • Categories Banner Vote 2013

    Muslims urged to change ARMM image as ‘cheating capital’

    Aug 20, 2012 11:38 AM

    BONGAO, Tawi-tawi—Muslim leaders challenged followers of Islam to change public perceptions that the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is the cheating capital of the Philippines.

    armm elections, bongao, Ramadan, tawi-tawi

  • Categories Vote 2013

    Ex-Comelec commissioner, now PPCRV VP, visits Bongao

    Jul 18, 2012 2:03 PM

    By BABYLYN KANO-OMAR VERA Files BONGAO, Tawi-tawi—Former Elections Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal, now vice president of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), arrived here Sunday for a brief visit […]

    ARMM, armm registration, bongao, tawi-tawi

  • Categories Vote 2013

    10-day ARMM voter listing is enough

    Jul 16, 2012 3:45 PM

    By BABYLYN KANO-OMAR, VERA Files BONGAO, Tawi-tawi—The 10 days set aside for the general registration of voters would be sufficient to accommodate all registrants, and an extension would be unnecessary, […]

    ARMM, armm registration, bongao, tawi-tawi

  • Categories Vote 2013

    Outsiders cutting into long queues at registration centers

    Jul 15, 2012 9:00 AM

    By BABYLYN KANO-OMAR VERA Files BONGAO, Tawi-tawi—Reports of “flying” registrants in different barangays here are reaching the election watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting. On Day 4 of the […]

    ARMM, armm registration, tawi-tawi

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