KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/2 Jan) — To prevent another attack on the facilities of Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI), elements of the Philippine Army will be fielded to the company’s base camp in Tampakan, South Cotabato.
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/2 Jan) — While the rest of the world welcomed New Year’s Day with a bang, armed men in the remote parts of Lanao del Norte literally greeted it with a big bang.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 January) — While neighboring Tagum City treated its residents to a display of fireworks and hospitals elsewhere in the country received the injured, the dying and the dead from firecracker blasts and stray bullets, residents of this city banged pots and pans, sounded off bells, tooted horns and shouted “Happy New Year” to greet 2008.
MANILA (MindaNews/02 January) — US troops’ order to shut down the District Hospital at night – and their threat to shoot anyone who disobeys their order – in Panamao, Sulu starting last November 30 revives a host of unanswered questions over the true nature of their mission in the Philippines.
Twists and cracks
The meadow parched
Amid the dreary notes
Of gales forlorn
As if to clutch
The breeze unseen
With feeble edges
Of grasses ungreen
Paper prepared for the MILF-GRP Exploratory Talks by lawyer Datu Michael O. Mastura, MILF Panel member (Kuala Lumpur, November 2007). The comments of lawyers Ishak V. Mastura, Musib M. Buat and Lanang Ali have been incorporated into the discussion.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/2 Jan) — The fire that razed 30 business establishments in the town of Matalam last Dec. 28 was caused by faulty electrical wiring,the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said.
“Their interest to learn despite the difficult condition encourages me to go there on Saturdays to teach the kids”, Daisy Rose Andalac says as she recalls her days with poor school children in Barangay Pugaan- an outskirt village in Iligan City.
