The autonomous region in the southern island of Mindanao, to be called Bangsamoro, would get its own 60-member parliament that would wield exclusive power over such areas as agriculture, trade ...

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said Monday that he will personally submit to Congress a bill that would create the Bangsamoro, an autonomous area in the southern region of Mindanao that ...

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MANILA—Legislation to establish an autonomous Muslim region in the Philippines' war-torn south could be ready to go before Congress within the next two weeks, the Philippine government's chief ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Muslims in the southern Philippines overwhelmingly approved in a referendum the creation of a new autonomous region in hopes of ending nearly half a century of unrest ...

Authorities in the Philippines are working to establish an autonomous Muslim government on the southern island of Mindanao within the next two years. The creation of the autonomous government was ...

The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has long been associated with insurrection, conflict and extremism. Although much of Mindanao has been integrated into the mainstream Philippine economy ...

Murad Ebrahim, chief minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, speaks to Nikkei Asia in Tokyo on Aug. 6. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and Ken Kobayashi) ...

The president of the overwhelmingly Catholic Philippines proposed Wednesday to give Muslims in the south the ability to run their own government under their own flag, part of a peace plan aimed at ...

Muslims in the southern Philippines overwhelmingly approved in a referendum the creation of a new autonomous region in hopes of ending nearly half a century of unrest, election officials said.

DAVAO CITY—A third of the country’s total fish production comes from the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), maintaining its performance as the country’s top fish ...