CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 May) – Fourteen of 39 Lanao del Sur towns where a failure of election was declared on May 14 will hold special elections on Saturday.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 May) — The TU 12-0 sweep in the senatorial level of the May 14 election in Maguindanao has stirred up a nationwide question: Was there election in Maguindanao?
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/22 May) — Ten members of the US military based in Okinawa, Japan are in this city for a three-day lecture on bomb detonation and disposat that ends Wednesday.
PAGALUNGAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/22 May) — Two armored vehicles and additional personnel from the Philippine Army’s 7th Infantry Battalion were deployed to the town hall here due to intelligence reports on harassment and possibly arson.
TAGUM CITY (MindaNews/22 May)—Three of the eight soldiers accused of killing a Moro couple in Barangay Bincungan here on Sept. 8, 2004 on suspicion they were members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), were arrested on Monday.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 May) — Bukidnon, home of administration senatorial bet Rep. Juan Miguel Zubiri, made him number one among the Senate 12 but overall, the province went for the opposition at 7-3-2, seven from the Genuine Opposition, three from Team Unity, and two independent bets, according to the final provincial count from the Commission on Elections here.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 May) — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) today proclaimed outgoing Sultan Kudarat Gov. Pax Mangudadatu as the first elected representative of the province's first congressional district.
CENTRAL LUZON (MIndaNews/22 May) — Over the weekend, I traveled through Central Luzon at a time when the towns were erupting in celebratory euphoria over the election proclamations. I was on my way to Tarlac to attend a wedding, but the plains of Central Luzon beckoned. I figured I had the time to take detours and side trips so long as I got to where I was going by midnight Friday.
DAKBAYAN SA DABAW (MindaNews/Mayo 22) — Matud pa sa DepEd Memorandum 70, s. of 2007 ang Brigrada Eskwela magsugod sa May 21-26, 2007 ug kini usa pag-agni sa mga ginikanan sa pampublikong tulunghaan sa pagbuhat sa mga ginagmayang pag-ayo sa mga daut sa eskwelahan aron mamahimong andam na kini sa sunod nga tuig ting-eskwela.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 May) – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is the source of information on the number of registered voters. But when there are discrepancies in the number, who should be believed? The official website of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Manila or the figures given by the regional field offices such as the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)?
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MIndanews/21 May) – Pay upon harvest.
A British firm going around Mindanao to entice farmers to cultivate tuba-tuba (Jatropha curcas), is providing the farmers planting materials, technical assistance and a marketing agreement.
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/May 21) – About a thousand persons gathered in front of the legislative building here today to protest the transfer of ballot boxes to the Mindanao Civic Center (MCC) in Tubod, Lanao del Norte, where the provincial canvassing is held.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 May) — The 9th Tuna Congress is still three months away but industry players are now busy preparing for the arrival of an expected 300 domestic and foreign delegates.
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/21 May) — With the help of Father Angel Calvo, he provided me this piece of intellectual analysis of the Sulu crisis that you (Herbert Docena of the Focus on the Global South) wrote.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/21 May) — Bukidnon is still Zubiri country.
Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri, Jr. won over lone opponent, three-termer 1st district representative Juan Nereus Acosta with a margin of at least 250,000. Zubiri got 323,238 votes.
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/21 May) — Moro youth leaders from all over Mindanao have called on the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels to listen to their demands and consider them in the peace negotiations.
SEN. NINOY AQUINO (MindaNews/21 May) – It’s still opposition country in this town named after the assassinated senator.
The Genuine Opposition scored 8-3-1, with 8 GO members making it to the top 12, against the Administration’s three and one Independent but Loren Legarda, not Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, topped the senatorial race here.
