Senate OKs bill imposing 12-year prison term on terror plotters
The Senate, voting 19-2, on Wednesday approved on final reading Senate Bill No. 1083, which toughens the law against terrorism and effectively repealing the Human Security Act of 2007.
Philippines, US to put up counter-terrorism training center
Concern over violent extremism has grown following suicide bomb attacks at the Jolo Cathedral in Sulu in January and an army camp in Indanan town, also in Sulu, in June.
