(1st UPDATE) Senator Robinhood Padilla's bill seeks to create a new region in Mindanao comprising the provinces of Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi MANILA, Philippines – The interim government of ...
For a start, Section 15, Article X of the Constitution provides that there shall be created “autonomous regions in Muslim Mindanao and in the Cordilleras consisting of provinces, cities ...
following its exclusion from the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Padilla filed on Tuesday Senate Bill 2879, which establishes the Basulta Autonomous Region composed of ...
Nearly three million people in the volatile Mindanao region of the Philippines have voted in a referendum which could see some areas given greater autonomy. They have been asked whether they back ...
Mindanao is divided into six administrative regions, including the predominantly Muslim Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The region has long struggled with underdevelopment ...