Killings alarm Lumads, residents of Zambo Sur town

By Violeta M. Gloria | September 2, 2010

BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur (MindaNews/2 Sept) — A series of killings, threats and harassments over the past months has alarmed indigenous people and civilian communities in this town.

A report submitted to the regional office of the Commission on Human Rights …

• Bukidnon wants tighter grip on radio stations

• Kitanglad Range launched as ASEAN Heritage Park

• Poll watch leader backtracks on Comelec’s Yusoph

• SouthCot intensifies campaign vs drug traffickers; 168 nabbed from January to July

• Socoteco-II pushes energy-saving CFLs over incandescent bulbs

MILF hails Aquino’s retention of Malaysia as talks facilitator; will announce panel composition after Eid’l Fitr

COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/01 September) – The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) hailed President Benigno Aquino’s decision to retain Malaysia as the facilitator of the peace talks between them and the Philippine government.

Mohagher Iqbal, MILF information chief and head of the deactivated peace panel,  told MindaNews …

• Government is on the same page in peace track

  
  

• Teduray, Moro are 4th and 5th members in gov’t peace panel negotiating with MILF

  
  

• Ecumenical bishops call on gov’t, NDF to resume peace talks

  
  

• 16-year old UPMin student from Tagum City tops “Dear P-Noy” letter-writing contest

  
  

Maguindanao “going to normalcy” but still under a state of emergency

COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/01 August)  – Maguindanao is now “going to normalcy,” police and military officials say, even as it remains under a state of emergency nine months after the massacre of November 23, 2009 in Ampatuan town.

Police Sr. Supt. Allen  Fortes, deputy regional director for …

• Victims’ lawyer questions release of vehicle evidences in Ampatuan Massacre

  
  

• 58 trees planted in honor of Ampatuan Massacre victims

  
  

• Trial date set for September 1 in Philippines massacre trial

  
  

• Maguindanao: two temporary offices, two abandoned capitols

  
  

Socoteco-II pushes energy-saving CFLs over incandescent bulbs

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/2 Sept) — Power utility South Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Socoteco)-II has launched the distribution of some 132,000 compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) here and in nine other towns in Sarangani and South Cotabato provinces as part of a massive nationwide campaign to clear …

• Fishing ban main agenda in nat’l tuna congress in GenSan

  
  

• NFA SouthCot allots P5M for palay procurement

  
  

• Displaced tuna industry workers in GenSan get P3.629-M aid from DOLE

  
  

• NorthCot to collect P33.4M for hosting geothermal plants

WAYWARD AND FANCIFUL: Of heroes and our worst nightmare. By Gail Ilagan

DAVAO CITY  (MindaNews/31 August) — It’s easy enough to heap abuse on the President now.

And with the newly inaugurated government website courtesy of the hip and techno-savvy communications team, the President is getting expressions of displeasure directly from his bosses.

Such …

COMMENT: P-Noy flunks. By Patricio P. Diaz

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/26 August) — In the aftermath of the bloody August 24 hostage crisis that splattered worldwide, President Bengino S. Aquino III rationalized, ordered the Secretary of Justice to conduct a “thorough” investigation; so did the Philippine National …

DURIAN: Ninoy’s Filipino after 27 years

MANDULUYONG (MindaNews/22 August) — Yesterday, the nation marked the 27th death anniversary of former Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Sr. His assassination at the tarmac of the Manila International Airport (MIA), allegedly by Rolando Galman acting alone, sparked the fires of …

THE SEPARATIST: In reply to Iqbal (2)

KYOTO, Japan (MindaNews/21 August) — I am, first of all, grateful to Mohagher Iqbal for taking time out of his busy schedule to respond to what I wrote. It indicates a number of things that I actually find admiring of …

• IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Young, afraid and lost by Ayesah Abubakar

  
  

  • THE SEPARATIST: Bizarre Logic and Old Accounts

   

  
  

  • Dureza’s 10 August memo re serving his six-year term

  
  

  • Dureza’s 29 July “offer to relinquish post”

  
  

  • Pres. BSC Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) as delivered

  
  

  • Pres. BSC Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) English Translation

  
  

  • Inaugural Speech of President Benigno S. Aquino III

   

  
  

  • NUJP: A call for self-examination

  
  

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: In response to Abinales

  
  

  • PNP XI authorities should continue to keep Camangyan in custody – NUJP Davao

  
  
  
  

  
  

  • Central Mindanao: helping vulnerable families return to normal life

  
  

  • Japan Turnovers Garbage Compactors to Panabo City, Davao del Norte

  
  

  • Poetry Concert para sa hustisya sa ika-9 buwan ng Ampatuan Massacre

  
  
  
  
  

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