Day: April 18, 2007

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 April) — A tripartite body exclusively to look into labor issues in Southeastern Mindanao's banana industry will start end of May, the regional director of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced Wednesday.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 April) — In a homecoming fit for a conquering hero, residents here took to the streets in celebration as they gave international boxing sensation Manny Pacquiao no less than the red carpet upon his return to this city Wednesday morning.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/18 April) — Two motorcycle-riding men, suspected to be the bombers, were killed when a homemade bomb they were carrying exploded at around 6:15 p.m., along Yapsay corner Jarabillo streets, some 100 meters from Sinsuat Avenue in Cotabato City.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 April) — Boxing icon Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao has scrapped his usual post-fight break in favor of yet another fight: the congressional race.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 April) – A new group of IT experts is taking over the city’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) promotions.

TULUNAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/18 April) — The remains of villagers who were killed during a vehicular accident in Matalam town on April 10 will be buried on Saturday behind the San Vicente Ferrer chapel in Barangay Banayal.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 April) —  A psychosocial first-aid mission that visited last Saturday the village where nine-year old girl Grecil lived and was killed in an encounter between government forces and communist rebels on March 31, wants her body exhumed for autopsy.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 April) —  Lack of witnesses is a major cause why cases filed against government officials and employees do not prosper, Deputy Ombudsman for Mindanao Humprey Monteroso said.