Mario B. CasayuranTempoOctober 25, 2011Manila, Philippines – Do not show mercy for the so-called murderous “lost commands’’ of the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) whose rampage in Mindanao last week snuffed the lives of 44 persons, mostly Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) soldiers and Philippine National Police (PNP)

Press ReleaseOctober 25, 2011Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, chair of both the Senate Committees on Agriculture and Food, and Social Justice and Rural Development, challenged the government to spend billions on strengthening agriculture and food production in Mindanao, as opposed to “wasting precious resources that will needlessly destroy lives and property.”Pangilinan

Press StatementOctober 24, 2011Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, Chair of the Senate Committee on Social Justice and Rural Development and of the Committee on Agriculture and Food, calls on the government to temporarily suspend talks with the MILF pending a review of the ceasefire agreement. Pangilinan made the call as reports

ABS-CBNNews.comOctober 23, 2011MANILA, Philippines – Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan said the death of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi should at least be a warning and a reminder to everyone who has political power not to abuse it.“It should make political leaders pause to think hard about the essence of power and

Press StatementOctober 24, 2011Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, Chair of the Senate Committee on Social Justice and Rural Development, calls on the government to exercise the full force of the law on the so-called “lost commands” that have been sowing violence in Basilan over the past weeks. “We cannot simply turn

Press StatementOctober 23, 2011The death of Gaddafi should serve both as a warning and stern reminder to all those who wield political power everywhere in the world. It should make political leaders pause to think hard about the essence of power and leadership in a world that is changing so

The Inquirer Read-Along TeamInquirer.netOctober 23, 2011Children from as far as Nueva Vizcaya, Zambales and Quezon Province trooped to the Inquirer office on Saturday afternoon to attend a special Inquirer Read-Along session to mark the celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Month.The session featured Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, the Philippine Azkals and Alitaptap

Press ReleaseOctober 20, 2011A day after the Basque separatist group ETA declared a ‘definitive cessation’ to violence in Spain, Senator Francis ‘Kiko’ Pangilinan expresses hope that the Philippines will someday soon experience the same triumphant hope for peace now that the ETA had declared an end to its 40-year armed

Press ReleaseOctober 20, 2011Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, chair of the Senate Committee on Social Justice and Rural Development, mourns with the Filipino people for the death of 19 soldiers in an encounter with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Basilan.“Every single life lost in this conflict is a pin