MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 December) – Close to 2,500 Manobo and some Visayan settlers of twelve communities in Surigao del Sur who fled at the height of a military operation last month are happy to be home for Christmas after living for a month in overcrowded evacuation centers.
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/22 December) — Teng, Adel, Shah. Young, Muslim, professional, leader. All three are making waves in their fields of endeavors, without much fanfare.
Davao-based filmmaker Gutierrez "Teng" Mangansakan is a Maguindanaon. The lone Muslim documentary maker in mainstream, Teng is a recognized heritage defender by the Philippine Yearbook. He recently published a book of compilation of essays by young Moro writers as editor of "Children of the Ever-Changing Moon," released by multi-awarded ANVIL.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 December) – The National Democratic Front has branded the holiday ceasefire declared by the Philippine government as a mask to hide its continuing attacks against the revolutionary movement.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/22 December) – Police operatives led by Insp. Benjamin Mauricio, deputy chief for operations of the Kidapawan City PNP, arrested on Friday six peddlers, three of them female, for allegedly selling firecrackers in a public market here.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Well into the first decade of the new millennium, a renaissance of sort in Philippine professional boxing was ushered in by Manny Pacquiao's brutal demolition of Mexican boxing great Marco Antonio Barrera in 2003.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 December) — Wangan Elementary School trounced Magallanes Elementary School, 2-0, to grab the elementary division title of the 2007 Pamaskong Handog ni Mayor Rodrigo Duterte Sepak Takraw Tournament, late Thursday afternoon, at the City Hall Drive.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 December) — The 2007 Pamaskong Handog ni Mayor Rodrigo Duterte Cycling Challenge pedals off today with out and back courses at the Barangay Catalunan Grande covered court here.
