DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 Nov) — The Court of Appeals has issued a 60-day halt on the city government's implementation of the ban on aerial spraying in a resolution it made a week ago but released only today (Friday).
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / Nov. 23) – Police filed today (Friday) murder and multiple frustrated murder charges against two suspected bombers they arrested an hour after an incendiary bomb went off inside a baggage counter of KMCC Mall here late Thursday afternoon.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / Nov 23) – The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) office here has welcomed the plan of legislators to clothe the institution with power to prosecute violators of human rights.
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / Nov 23) – Angry evacuees from flooded areas here pelted stones at the high school library here where President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo met local officials and gave P6 million for flood relief on Thursday.
PIKIT, North Cotabato (MindaNews / Nov 23) — I heard them all speak Maguindanawon. The cook. The driver. The kids who were washing dishes. They conversed with each other in Maguindanawon. I had just arrived then at the convent of St. Therese Parish in Datu Piang to give a seminar on Intra-Religious Dialogue to lay leaders. Hearing them speak perfect Maguindanawon made me think initially that they were Muslims. To my surprise, I found out they were not Muslims. They were actually Christians.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 November) – “Now or never.”
The best-case scenario for the Philippine government’s review of the 1996 peace pact with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the about-to-be-signed peace pact with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is a law merging the provisions of the peace pacts by March 2008, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza said.
TAHUNA, Indonesia (for MindaNews/22 November) – More formal talks are needed to accelerate trade and commerce between the neighboring provinces and cities of the southern Philippines and Indonesia, Sarangani Governor Miguel Rene Dominguez on Wednesday said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 November) — Despite claims it is cash-strapped in as far as the distribution of more lands under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program is concerned, the Department of Agrarian Reform said it has funds for the planned relocation of its central office from Quezon City to Davao City.
TAHUNA, Indonesia (for MindaNews/22 November) – The Philippines and Indonesia ended its three-day annual joint border patrol exercise Wednesday with a visit from the Philippine delegation for talks on possible expanded trade ties between the two neighboring countries.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 November) – Only 22 percent or 3,500 of 16,000 target children have benefited from the city government’s month-long anti-measles drive that ended last week.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 November) – The City Government of Davao is hiring a social worker for each of its 182 barangays starting in 2008, an official at the City Social Services Development Office said.
DAVAO CITY (for MindaNews/22 November) – The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) should be strengthened by giving it power to prosecute violators of human rights, Liberal Party president and former senator Franklin Drilon said in a press conference at the Royal Mandaya Hotel here.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 November) – Persistent bomb threats have remained the major reason for the continued enforcement of an ordinance here which bans the use and selling of firecrackers and regulates the use of pyrotechnics during the Christmas season and other celebrations.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/22 November) – Militant legislators from AnakPawis, Bayan Muna and Gabriela Women’s party criticized the Arroyo administration for allegedly rendering the Filipino people defenseless against the continued oil price increases.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/22 November) — Task Force North Cotabato conducted a one-day bomb awareness information drive at the Central Mindanao Colleges, one of the biggest tertiary schools here.
