IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay —“Arrogant and discourteous.”
This was how Margarita C. Baya, officer-in-charge of the provincial office of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), described the Sangguniang Bayan members of Kabasalan town who left the session hall just as tribal chieftains came to talk to them.
MATI, Davao Oriental (MindaNews/19 Apr) — Davao Oriental may have one of the country’s richest mining potentials, but Gov. Corazon Malanyaon prefers to downplay it, preferring to promote agriculture instead and the ecology.
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY (MindaNews/19 Apr) — Officials of the Department of Education (DepEd) and Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) are optimistic that this year's Palarong Pambansa would run smoothly, saying all have been covered to ensure the success of the games.
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY (MindaNews/19 Apr) — The 2008 Palarong Pambansa formally opens tomorrow (Sunday) without President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Philippine Sports Commission Chairman (PSC) William “Butch” Ramirez in attendance at the opening rites set at 4 p.m. at the newly-refurbished Ramon V. Mitra Sports Complex in this city touted as the country's sports tourism capital.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 April) — Will it happen to us? By “Us”, I mean “we, Filipino Catholics”. The question refers to the possibility of the crisis the Catholic Church in the United States is now facing happening to the Catholic Church in the Philippines.
