DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 Feb) — The Mindanao cluster of the League of Municipalities in the Philippines (LMP) has expressed its support to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on the NBN-ZTE controversy.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 Feb) — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo today signed into law here the Ariculture Competitive Enhancement Fund (Acef) that extended its utilization up to 2015 and assured Mindanao it would get 30 percent of total collections in lump sum.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 February) – “Naglaway ang mga Sparrow,” (The Sparrows were salivating,” said Noy, a taxi driver who was stalled for two hours because he happened to be plying the street near the Grand Regal Hotel along Lanang where President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo met with Mindanao’s town mayors, and where security personnel stopped him and the rest from moving forward or turning around.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 Feb) – Church workers from the 44 parishes of the Diocese of Malaybalay expressed their observations of wrongdoing in the province in a pastoral statement at the end of their annual assembly here Wednesday.
LAKE SEBU, South Cotabato (MindaNews/27 Feb) – Downstream areas of the mountainous tri-boundaries of South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and Davao del Sur provinces are at risk of devastating flashfloods and landslides once a proposed large-scale copper and gold mining project in the area will commence, a top official of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) warned.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/27 Feb) — Mayor Pedro Acharon Jr. on Tuesday said residents and businessmen should explore the possibilities of opening up new industries as decline in tuna catch continues and ties with neighboring countries sharing fishing grounds with the Philippines remain uncertain.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/27 Feb) – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has intensified its monitoring on various repair shops and service centers of various electronic gadgets and other household items in South Cotabato to protect local consumers against unscrupulous practices.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 Feb) – Two dog bite victims, including a six-year-old boy, attacked by a mad dog last December, died in separate hospitals in North Cotabato last Monday, reports said.
Elvis Tolentino, 37, of Barangay Lipaga, M’lang, died at the North Cotabato Provincial Hospital in Amas, Kidapawan City Monday noon; while Joseph Jade Labanza, 6, also of Barangay Lipaga, expired at M’lang Medical Specialist Hospital in Poblacion, M’lang Monday night.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/27 Feb) — Smart Communications, Inc. on Tuesday announced that it recently hooked up with the city government here for the free installation of wireless fidelity (wifi) service at the city hall and its immediate perimeter.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 27 February) – He was dancing!
He danced sans grace. But he was really enjoying, as if nobody was watching.
Jovy, a non-government organization worker, was happy but curious of the presence of the jolly good fellow. She was one of the coordinators of the series of protest-march rally cum concert.
