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KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 8 February) – With Ramadan and the Lenten Season expected to begin on the same day, February 18, a senior member of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) urged the faithful “not only to pray for peace, but to live it and work for it.” In his message for the […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 08 February) – The Senate Committee on Local Government has also proposed the second Monday of September this year (September 14) as the date of the first Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections but issues on sectoral representation need to be addressed immediately to ensure no further delay. Resolving the issue of electing the 32 single […]
TANDAG CITY (MindaNews / 08 February) — “We had to swim just to reach the main road,” recalled Anadel Alipao., a resident of Barangay Camagong, Tago, describing how floodwaters brought about by tropiscal storm ‘Basyang’ surged through her community on Thursday, February 5. “We couldn’t bring anything with us. We had to leave all our belongings […]
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 7 February) — Yet another badly hit area in this city in the aftermath of Tropical Typhoon “Basyang” is Barangay Abuno as two steel bridges collapsed and several houses were damaged and inundated by flood waters dawn on Friday. Leonardo Herbito Jr., among those whose houses were damaged, said the bridges […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 7 February) – Benjamin “Bong” Duterte, the youngest brother of former President Rodrigo R. Duterte, has died. The Duterte siblings’ cousin, Nitzkie Lopez Sodusta, announced his death in a Facebook post on Saturday. The cause of his death was not disclosed. In a statement, Vice President Sara Duterte thanked the supporters […]
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews / 7 February) – Tropical Storm “Basyang” (Penha) left thousands of residents affected and three people dead as it battered the Caraga region, triggering widespread flooding and displacement, authorities said. According to the 4:00 a.m. report on February 7 from the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) Caraga, a total […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 7 February) – The Department of Neurosurgery at the government-run Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) performed on Saturday the country’s first adaptive sensing-enabled Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) procedure. The procedure was done on a patient diagnosed with X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP), also known as Lubag Disease, a rare genetic ailment affecting male […]
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 7 February) – The National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) has condemned Friday’s killing of retired Army Colonel Leonardo Songcaya, 68, in Matalam, North Cotabato. NCSC Commissioner Edwin Espejo said the victim was not only a decorated public servant but also a steadfast advocate for older persons. Songcaya served […]
MACO, Davao de Oro (MindaNews / 7 February) – The second anniversary of the landslide in Barangay Masara in Maco town, Davao de Oro that killed almost a hundred and displaced thousands passed without any visible commemoration by local government units or national agencies. This is a quiet shift from last year’s more public observance […]
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 6 February) — The flood brought about by Tropical Storm “Basyang” on Friday was among Iligan’s worst. Some say the water level may even be more than “Sendong” in December 2011, maybe in some parts of the city, although casualties were not as bad because there were no thousands of logs […]
MindaNews / 31 January — The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has received a major boost involving barter trade exchanges within the Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines – East Asia Growth Area (BIMB-EAGA). This after the Bureau of
(Position paper on Senate Bill 1587 and House Bill No. 7236 titled “No to revocation of settler communities’ certification! No to disenfranchisemnt of reserved seats for marginalized sectors. Fulfill the promise of inclusive BARMM” read by lawyer Mary Ann Arnado,
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 08 February) — As I sit in Speaker Nograles Hall to attend the Congressional Committee Hearing on HB 7236 as a resource speaker, waiting for my name to be called, the silence is often deceptive. In
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 02 Feb) — Junjun wakes up each morning to the sound of his fellow Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) gathering for the daily meeting. In the past, mornings meant nothing more than another day of confinement,
LIBONA, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 02 February) — To shed light on what is happening in Dupax (Nueva Vizcaya) today, it is helpful to look back at the multisectoral ecological struggle, which emerged in 1999 in Wao — a municipality that
Trafficked through Mindanao’s maritime backdoors to Sabah, a woman has lived in Sandakan for 20 years without a passport from either country. SANDAKAN, Sabah, Malaysia (MindaNews / 30 January) — Forty-eight-year old Maguing (not her real name), keeps the door open whenever there are immigration operasi (operations) in their village. Risking deportation every time there […]
A Facebook post by Radyo Birada Mati allegedly on super typhoon ‘Uwan’ is AI-generated. MindaNews is fact-checking this post as it has gathered at least 140 shares, 18 comments, and 195 reactions as of Sunday, 5:47 p.m. The post was
DAVAO CITY — Facebook page ‘Jay sonza’ has gone viral for supposed photos of the destruction in Manay, Davao Oriental caused by the double quakes that happened last October 10. Some of the photos are false, and have been reused
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 08 February) – The Senate Committee on Local Government has also
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 January) – The proposed date for the 1st Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections (BPE)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 18 January) – The chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 14 January) – “Least risk.” Deputy Speaker Laisa Alamia of Basilan,
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