DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 October) – Around a hundred bloggers from various parts of Mindanao will gather at the NCCC Mall’s fourth floor on Saturday, 27 October for the 1st Mindanao Bloggers’ Summit.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 October) – Protecting the environment should be a precondition to development, an official of the Asian Development Bank, one of the biggest supporters of the BIMP-East Asean Growth Area said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/26 Oct) – Mining firm Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI) will not be encroaching into any declared protected area once the company begins full blast copper and gold mining operations within the next three years.
MALITBOG, Bukidnon (MindaNews/26 October) — Eugenio “Eunie” Geraldo, a farmer with six children in a village called Tumigbong here fell into a depression when his wife Apolinaria died while giving birth to youngest child Lourdes three years ago.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/12 Oct) – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) today urged voters here and nearby areas to reject candidates in the upcoming October 29 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections who posted their campaign materials on trees and even on plants.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 October) — Failure to bridge language differences is viewed as one of the reasons why the BIMP East Asean Growth Area has not taken off 13 years after it was created to promote sub-regional economic cooperation.
MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato (MindaNews/26 October) — The Save the Children Program in this town as awarded Bantay Ceasefire, a grassroots-based ceasefire monitor, a Plaque of Appreciation for its “effort in helping make our communities peaceful enough to be conducive to learning.”
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/26 October) – Governance among Indigenous Peoples (IP) is the main theme of the three-day annual conference of the national anthropological association Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University here.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/26 Oct) – At around 5:30 p.m. yesterday, October 25, Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye announced President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s order granting convicted former President Joseph Estrada presidential clemency.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 Oct) – The BAP-Samahang Basketbolista ng Pilipinas (BAP-SBP) will conduct a basketball coaches' clinic here on October 27 and 28 at the University of Mindanao Matina Campus Gym.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 Oct) — Not one but four charity institutions?will benefit in the first F.S. Dizon Charity Golf Tournament set to tee off on November 10 at the world-class Rancho Palos Verdes Golf and Country Club here.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 Oct) – More than 50 boys and girls took part in the 2007 Mayor RRD Basketball Clinic for the first batch recently at Barangay Communal in the second congressional district in this city.
(Statement on the attack of Radio Broadcaster Roel Sembrano of Radyo Natin Compostela, Compostela town, Compostela Valley Province)
We express our shock and disgust over the attack of radio broadcaster Roel Sembrano, who was inside the announcer's booth, when a politician he criticized on air came in with his wife and daughter and mauled him.
