GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 August)– Catholic and Protestant bishops and ulama from Mindanao and Indonesia gathered at the Isla Parilla in Alabel, Sarangani on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss what they can do together for peace.
MAGPET, North Cotabato (MindaNews/20 August) – Blame it on erratic weather conditions that hit Southwestern Mindanao early this year, officials said when asked to comment on the relative scarcity of exotic fruits like lanzones, rambutan, marang, mangosteen and durian which flooded the region and neighboring areas from July to August in previous years.
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/20 August) — Thirty years since "a group of people," in the words of the American news reporter John Nance, "walked less than 20 miles from their home in a Philippine rain-forest and traveled through 50,000 years of cultural and technological time", the debate on whether the Tasaday were truly from the Stone Age or not continues to rage in the country's anthropological circle.
