DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 Nov) — "Malaki na raw ang pinagbago ng akusado sa Subic rape case na si Daniel Smith…" said the idiot in the box. She goes on to report that Smith now has a Filipino spiritual adviser. Put together two and two, and may the force be with you. Barf. The idiot hopes perhaps that her patter would make you miss asking the obvious: "Bakit kaya kinailangan ni Smith magbago?"
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 Nov) — A barge carrying 59,000 sacks of sludge from the devastating oil spill in Guimaras sank off Plaridel town in Misamis Occidental Monday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 November) – There is much to learn from an island with so many peace and development programs going on simultaneously and that is what the 1st Mindanao Studies Conference in February 2007 wants to achieve: that the conference be a “”learning occasion.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 Nov) — The City Council here approved a P2.59-billion general fund annual budget for next year, 14 percent higher than the 2006 budget of P2.27 billion.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/21 Nov) — Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco has asked the members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod for the immediate passage of a resolution requesting the Commission on Election (Comelec) to grant authority to the office of the city election officer to conduct registration in barangay level away from the Comelec office in the town center.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 Nov) — Who says wireless internet could only be accessed in coffee shops, bars and restaurants? Well, the session hall of the Sangguniang Panlungsod here is now a wi-fi hotspot. Soon, the entire legislative building will have wireless internet for “sound and accurate legislation.”
KABACAN, North Cotabato (MindaNws/21 Nov) — Fearing the spread of gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases, the police here apprehended 30 commercial sex workers during simultaneous raids in various KTV bars Saturday evening.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/21 Nov) – Chief Supt. German Doria, police regional director in Southwestern Mindanao, has ordered a massive manhunt against Batunan Matabalao Kambang, supposed leader of a criminal group operating in North Cotabato who eluded arrest when authorities raided his hideout in Pikit town last Friday.
