Across asia: Philippines

Top militant 'is alive'

The brother of the Philippines' most wanted man said yesterday he was confident his sibling, head of the country's most dangerous Muslim rebel group, was still alive despite reports he may have been killed.

DNA tests are currently under way to see if a decomposing body found by government troops in December on the remote southwestern island of Jolo was Khaddafy Janjalani, chief of the Abu Sayyaf group.