MANILA - A state of rebellion declared after a failed uprising by renegade soldiers will remain in force until the threat to the Philippine government is over, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said on Saturday.

Arroyo, in a nationwide radio broadcast, said "residual threats" from last weekend's mutiny remained but the security situation in the country was under control.

"The state of rebellion will continue until we wrap up the residual threats. It is true that this problem is not yet over but we have this under control and we will resolve this in the soonest possible time," she said, without elaborating.

The Department of Justice on Friday filed coup charges against the 321 troops involved in last Sunday's day-long siege in Makati, the main business district of Manila.

Earlier in the week army commanders said the situation remained volatile and some troops were unaccounted for, and on Friday rumors swept Manila that truckloads of rogue troops had been sighted just south of the city.

But an army official said the rumors were a hoax and the city remained calm.

"There's a lot of disinformation going on right now and that seems to be part of it," Armed Forces public information chief Lieutenant Colonel Danilo Servando told Reuters by telephone.

The government has appealed to the public to refrain from passing on coup d'etat rumors by mobile phone.

"Our appeal through media to texters (text message senders) is to be responsible in passing or forwarding text messages, especially those that are unconfirmed," presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye said on local radio.

Text messaging by mobile phone is wildly popular in the Philippines and is partly credited with drawing large numbers of people to a religious shrine in Manila in January 2001 for a massive public protest that culminated in the ouster of President Joseph Estrada.

Arroyo in her radio address gave assurances that next week's ASEAN finance ministers meeting in Manila would not be derailed by the recent trouble. "The meeting of the ASEAN finance chiefs will push through this (coming) week," she said. Arroyo, who came to power through the army-backed popular revolt that ousted Estrada, said her government would continue to do "everything administratively, operationally and politically in order to stop whatever insidious plans there are in connection with this problem."

Arroyo has insisted the failed uprising was a plot to supplant her government and that all conspirators, either military or civilian would be brought to justice. Interior Secretary Jose Lina told the Senate Defence Committee on Friday there was a "civilian component to this coup d'etat" and that investigators were preparing charges against Gregorio Honasan, an opposition senator and former army colonel involved in coup plots in the 1980s.

A former member of Estrada's cabinet, Ramon Cardenas, has been charged with rebellion after police said they found weapons and red armbands used by the mutineers at a house he owns.

Estrada, currently jailed on plunder charges, has denied any involvement in the uprising.