TAMPAKAN, South Cotabato (MindaNews/3 Oct) — Workers of a huge mining firm here practically stopped the company’s operations when they padlocked the main office and put up roadblocks to express their disgust over management’s alleged policy of not granting regular status to workers.
BANGA, South Cotabato (MindaNews/3 Oct) – For an ordinary farmer, only a miracle can make a corn plant survive for almost a month under an unusually intense heat and without a single drop of water.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 October) – The government peace panel in the talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has asked the Department of Foreign Affairs to send a note verbale to Malaysia reiterating the August 27, 2007 agreement extending for another 12 months ending August 2008, the tour of duty of the International Monitoring Team (IMT).
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/03 October) — How Arroyo could reward Estrada’s arrogance with benevolence defies reason. For all her conciliatory gestures since Day 1, on Estrada’s arrest, she only received derision in return. For instance, ignoring criticisms, Malacañang helped facilitate his knee operation in Hong Kong; yet, in a press conference there, he denounced Arroyo and her administration.
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/03 October) — The Deputy Head of Mission of the 64-person Malaysian-led International Monitoring Team (IMT-4) does not want to see more soldiers sent to Mindanao because “the sight of armed law enforcers is a manifestation of un-peace.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 October) – Davao City legislators on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution expressing the City Council’s “solidarity” with the people of Burma and supporting the calls of the United Nations (UN) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for the country, renamed Myanmar by its military junta in 1989, to “respect human rights, free Aung Sang Suu Kyi and all political detainees, and move towards democracy.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 October) – Malaysia is reportedly pulling out its troops in the International Monitoring Team (IMT) in November this year if there is “no significant progress” in the peace talks between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Malaysia, chief facilitator of the talks, heads the IMT.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/2 Oct) – The Department of Agriculture is currently conducting a series of consultations that would lead to a unified standard for the corn industry and thus strengthen it, reports said.
Berto: “Wow, Pre, nagkasadya ning drama mahitungod sa padanglog sa NBN, sa? Nagkabistohan na! Naa nay nataktak!”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 October) – A Burmese national who is teaching in a local university here says the solidarity shown by Dabawenyos and other people outside Burma with their struggle back home, particularly at this time when a still undetermined number of protesters have been killed, has given them hope to continue their journey.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 October) –This year’s topnotcher in the Geodetic Engineer licensure examination is a Dabawenyo, a graduate of the John Paul II College of Davao.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/2 Oct) – Police operatives arrested this morning two suspected motorcycle thieves as they were trying to sell the stolen vehicles in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/Oct 1) – Cebu City’s M. Lhuiller Kwarta Padala dominated the Duterte Agilas-Goldstar Hardware, 93-70, spoiling the latter’s debut in the 2007 Mindanao Visayas Basketball Association (MVBA) Sunday night at the Davao City Recreation Center here.
