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                    [Title] => Heirs of sultan urge Sulu folk to regain Sabah peacefully
                    [Summary] => 

The heirs of the sultanate of Sulu have called on the people of Sulu to regain Sabah through peaceful means.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 934004 [Title] => '1,000 MNLF fighters now in Sabah, to help sultan followers' [Summary] =>

The 1,000 fighters of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) from Sulu, Basilan and Zamboanga Peninsula who have volunteered to augment the Royal Security Force (RSF) of the Sultanate of Sulu in Lahad Datu have arrived in Sabah.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-23 14:56:29 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/8625/requirementsthumb.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 919440 [Title] => The historical facts about Sabah Filipinos must know [Summary] =>

The media and Malacañang have generally focused on the negative aspects of the Sabah story.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133347 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1659389 [AuthorName] => Preciosa S. Soliven [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 917436 [Title] => No one owns land ‘forever’ [Summary] =>

It would be a mistake to conclude that by posting pictures of the Sultan’s dead men and declaring victory by Malaysian forces is the end of the Sabah story. Worse is the juvenile statement of Prime Minister Najib Razak that Sabah belongs to them “forever.”

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 777945 [Title] => Physical size doesn't matter [Summary] =>

When it comes to economic might, physical size doesn’t matter.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 193842 [Title] => RP to protest cut in pay of HK maids [Summary] => Another day, another protest.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will protest the plan of the Hong Kong Administrative Region to impose a five percent wage reduction on the salaries of foreign domestic helpers in place of the HK$500 levy earlier proposed on the foreign workers’ paychecks.

The DFA said the Philippine government will negotiate with HKSAR officials to prevent the imposition of the salary cut, which will affect close to 200,000 Filipino domestic helpers in the former British Crown colony.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 174383 [Title] => Claiming Sabah [Summary] => We all memorized these details in History class but forgot them as soon as the final exams were over:

• On Sept. 16, 1963, the Philippines broke diplomatic ties with the newly created Federation of Malaysia. The reason: Manila protested the results of a plebiscite in Sabah and Sarawak on Borneo island, which showed that the territories wanted to be part of Malaysia. Our president at the time: Diosdado Macapagal, father of the incumbent.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 174239 [Title] => 600 Tausogs died for Sabah [Summary] => The Philippine claim to Sabah is written with warrior’s blood, not ink.

According to historian and Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Constantino Jaraula (LDP), Sabah was once part of the Sultanate of Brunei and was given as a prize to the Sultan of Sulu in gratitude for the latter’s help in quelling a rebellion on Sabah in 1704.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1650428 [AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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