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Nur Misuari, former leader of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), said he will attend his arraignment today defying requests from his supporters to boycott the trial inside a police camp in Sta. Rosa, Laguna in Southern Luzon.

The Philippines government is set to negotiate for "observer status" in the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) which is monitoring the implementation of a 1996 peace accord between Manila and a Muslim separatist group, as President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo sends an emissary to Saudi Arabia to negotiate with an official of the organisation, her spokesman said yesterday.

Philippine bishop Bishop Ant-onio Ledesma said in a pastoral letter the Roman Catholic church "could explore the possibility of moving from its earlier position of critical non-collaboration with government to one of principled collaboration (to stem the country's 80 million population which is growing at 2.3 per cent annually".

Wilhelm Soriano, administrator of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), has requested the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to shift the OWWA from the labour department to the DFA.

Many Filipino physicians in Manila and the U.S. have been enrolling in nursing schools so they can land jobs in the U.S. and the UK, two places with a growing demand for nurses and care givers, said Presidential adviser on job creation, Luis Lorenzo.

A group that fights for labour rights has condemned the United States for handcuffing 62 Filipinos, deported, from the U.S. and due to arrive in the Philippines today.

Church sets moral norms for priests

Senate approves law declaring Ninoy Aquino a national hero

Poll commission to proclaim Padaca governor today

Candidates agree to attend mass for clean and honest elections

Villanueva against religious bloc voting

The El Shaddai Catholic charismatic group and the non-Catholic Church of Christ (INC) are coming out with their official statements this week announcing their chosen candidate for the May 10 presidential polls.