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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. Yet the four Filipino deportees said they would give up everything for a chance to go back, even if it meant going through the whole […]

    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 in dangerous compressor diving. The latest case involves 13 fishermen rescued from a fishing village here on March 15 by a team composed of the […]

    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 to check on PPCRV operations. Larrazabal visited six registration centers, and in some of these centers saw that among the PPCRV volunteers were persons with […]

    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, election officials said. But some sectors have been asking for a extension of the registration, giving rise to suspicion that such calls are a ploy […]

    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 10-day general registration, residents lining up to enlist complained that unknown people have been cutting through long lines of registrants waiting for their turns to […]

    ARMM, armm registration, tawi-tawi

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