Philippine News (The following links will take you to INQUIRER.net)

• Muslim rebels stop UN convoy, seize food aid
  MANILA, Philippines'Muslim guerillas halted a United Nations convoy and seized food supplies intended for tens of thousands of people displaced by fighting in Mindanao, police said Friday.
• Arroyo plans new peace panel with 'fresh minds'
  MANILA, Philippines'Malacañang said President Macapagal-Arroyo planned to reconstitute the government peace panel that would include 'fresh minds' to propose a new approach toward resolving the Mindanao conflict.
• Chavit Singson named deputy national security adviser
  MANILA, Philippines'After a yearlong absence from the political scene, former Ilocos Sur Gov. Luis 'Chavit' Singson is back in the corridors of power.
• Padaca walks the talk, crutches are symbols
  MANILA, Philippines'She has walked the talk'despite her disability. For years, she spoke out as a radio broadcaster against the excesses of the political dynasty which ruled Isabela for four decades.
• Army disputes soldiers looted homes
  MANILA, Philippines'Military officials on Friday disputed reports that soldiers had ransacked and looted homes and shops in a barangay in Maguindanao.
• Sulpicio ship rams Iloilo port
  ILOILO CITY, Philippines'Less than three months after the ill-fated MV Princess of the Stars sank off Sibuyan Island in Romblon, another ship owned by Sulpicio Lines Inc. figured in an accident on Thursday, damaging portions of a port expansion project here.
• Bounty for Bravo, Kato raised to P20M
  MANILA, Philippines'The government has doubled to P10 million the bounty on each of two leaders of the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front. They stand accused of perpetrating the attacks on several villages in Central Mindanao last month that left 62 civilians dead and displaced around 200,000.
• US troops' stay questioned
  ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines'They are supposed to be only visitors, but after six years they are still around and some local officials are wondering whether they are already part of the Filipino family.