KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/04 November) – Hundreds of families from remote villages in Tulunan, North Cotabato, evacuated to safer grounds after the 38th Infantry Battalion based in nearby Makilala town fired mortars since Friday night, according to officials of the affected areas.
BANISILAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/04 November) – A company-sized unit from the 602nd Brigade and members of the Scene of the Crime Operations from the North Cotabato Provincial Police Command in Kidapawan City arrived here today to prevent an escalation of armed clashes between the group of Banisilan Mayor Floro Allado and alleged lawless elements led by a certain Commander Faron.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/04 November) — Mining giant Xstrata Queensland Limited (Xstrata Copper) has decided to solely finance a US$30-million definitive feasibility study of a huge copper and gold venture straddling three Mindanao provinces, Tony Robbins, Indophil Resources NL managing director, announced on Wednesday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 November) — A member of the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front peace panel asked a conference on ancestral domain here to
give them more attention amid a two-month old impasse in the peace
negotiations between the government and the rebels.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 November) — Opposition lawyer Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III, said Friday there is no time for a "Plan B" or the plan to convene both houses of Congress into a Constituent Assembly to change the 1987 Constitution barely seven months before the mid-term elections next year.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/04 November) — Two persons died in a stabbing incident on All Saints' Day in Tacurong City.
