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Basilan

1. a group of islands in the Philippines, SW of Mindanao
2. the main island of this group, separated from Mindanao by the Basilan Strait. Area: 1282 sq. km (495 sq. miles)
3. a city on Basilan Island. Pop.: 381 000 (2005 est.)
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Basilan is touted as the new investment frontier in the Bangsamoro region owing to the fragile peace now spreading around the province that covers 11 towns and the cities of Isabela and Lamitan, its capital.
Inaugurated last week, the facility is dedicated to the reformation of former members of the Abu Sayyaf, a group of bandits that has bedeviled Basilan's growth and progress since its inception almost 30 years ago.
Bernard Banac, spokesman of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said they are now investigation TESDA provincial director Muida Hataman why she was keeping the improvised explosive materials which were discovered when joint police and military operatives effected a search warrant in Barangay San Rafael, Isabela City in Basilan on Tuesday morning.
Abuhair Kullim Indal alias Annual Dasil and Abu Khair, 32, native of Basilan and residing at No.
'Instead of helping Basilan recover from the biased reporting from the outside, it further projected Basilan as culturally backward, chaotic and underdeveloped,' said Basilan Governor Jim Hataman-Salliman.
Based on information provided by Hao, the soldier was a member of a 60mm mortar team of the 64th Infantry Battalion at Upper Cabengbeng, Sumisip, Basilan.
She said the conflict in Basilan was much worse during the martial law days, when her family was forced to stay in an evacuation camp due to incessant fighting between soldiers and Muslim rebels.
Major General Benjamin Dolorfino blamed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for Sunday's raid on Basilan provincial jail.
''This is our problem in Basilan. Many of our islands and villages are underdeveloped.
troops building roads on strife-torn Basilan Island in the southern Philippines, a spokesman for the Philippine Defense Department said Tuesday.
Basilan plans demo greenhouse for Israeli drip technology !-- -- John Unson (Philstar.com) - August 30, 2019 - 11:53am BASILAN, Philippines The provincial government of Basilan will put up an organic greenhouse demo farm using a drip irrigation system patterned after Israeli self-sustaining agriculture technology.
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