KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/14 March) – A swarm of earthquakes since Thursday night has been felt in several North Cotabato towns, sending residents into panic.
An earthquake swarm, according to Engr. Hermie Daquipa of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) Kidapawan sub-station, “is a series of earthquakes striking in clustered areas in a short period of time.”
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/14 March) — By April, law enforcers in Western Mindanao will have real-time and direct access to INTERPOL’s transnational crimes database.
This was revealed by Undersecretary Rolando Garcia, Director of the Philippine Center on Transnational Crime (PCTC) of the Office of the President, during a seminar Thursday on transnational crimes held at their Western Mindanao field office in Camp Gen. Eduardo Batalla.
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/14 March) — Two Japanese officials witnessed Wednesday a turn-over rite here of a P140-development package of projects to spur economic growth in six towns of this province.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/13 March) — Two more sleeps and the whole world of boxing fans will be glued on to their television sets, live on cable and delayed telecast on free TV.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/13 March) – Authorities in Cotabato City arrested on Wednesday a suspected bomber on board a passenger jeepney along the highway in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Sharif Kabunsuan town.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 March) – Unless postponed by Congress – which is taking a break starting Holy Week next week until April 28 — the August 11 election in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will push through as scheduled, the first election that will be “fully automated using both Direct Recording Electronic (DRE), and Optical Mark Reader (OMR) technology.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 March) – “The stories of an institution like UP-PGH (University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital) are timeless. But as it is often said, nothing ever happened unless it is written down. There are so many stories to tell of the agonies and triumphs of both doctors and patients, who have peopled this venerable institution through the ages. I wrote the stories because I firmly believe that healing is a mutual process; that the healer is very often himself healed as he goes about caring for the ailing person. So the stories bite both ways.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 March) – Muslims in Mindanao say voting in the national elections in 2007 was “clean and orderly in their precinct” but acknowledge that violence has become a “way of life” in their province during elections so they would rather have unopposed candidates.
