31.   But he confirmed that there had been a gunbattle, and that the MILF guerrillas had entered the project site.

32.   Drilling began at the project site late last year.

33.   The second kidnapping occurred after an MILF unit clashed with an army unit near the project site, which Moslem residents claim as their property.

34.   The UNDP chief left here shortly after arriving for the southeastern port city of Buchanan to visit project sites and camps for displaced people.

35.   The work on the VOA station has been suspended since October when police opened fire and killed one demonstrator outside the project site.

36.   It was the sixth such skirmish since Sunday between the MILF and security forces deployed at the project site near Carmen town.

37.   Japanese contractor Mitsui Construction Co. Ltd. had its own project site here raided by a security agency to flush out illegal workers, company officials said Saturday.

38.   Moslem guerrillas attacked an army outpost in a besieged irrigation dam project site near this southern city Thursday despite an informal ceasefire earlier this week.

39.   Mitsui, which has blamed subcontractors for hiring illegals, was believed to be among the first contractors here to raid its own project site.

40.   Military officials said they could not attack the rebels inside the project site because of the presence of the South Koreans and the local employees.