DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / May 23) – Bukidnon provincial legislators passed a resolution this week pushing for a federal system of governance in the country as they argued that it was the best means to quell insurgency, an official said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / May 21) – A Hong Kong-based human rights group has tagged the killing of a peasant leader here as "part of military operations, which escalated human rights violations against farmers and indigenous peoples in Compostela Valley and other parts of Mindanao."
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews /May 23)- A female worker of the militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) in Lanao del Norte turned up in a provincial jail in Oroquieta City in Misamis Occidental, five days after she was last seen forcibly dragged into a waiting van.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / May 22) – North Cotabato Rep. Bernardo Pinol, Jr., lashed out at a local proposal to add two more congressional districts in the province.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / May 23) – A body of a still unidentified man was found dumped in an abandoned lot here Wednesday, his body bearing multiple stab wounds.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / May 23) – The city government here was chosen as the most outstanding component city in central Mindanao in the Regional Literacy Awards of the Department of Education.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / May 23) – On November 15, 2007, Rodolfo
Garcia, chair of the GRP negotiating panel, and his MILF counterpart Mohagher Iqbal signed in Kuala Lumpur, witnessed by Othman bin Abdulrazak, the Malaysian talk facilitator, the "points of consensus on the core items of the territorial issue" concerning Ancestral Domain. (INQUIRER.net, Nov. 15, 2007) This ended a 14-month impasse over the last of the three-item talk agenda contained in the Tripoli Peace Agreement of 2001.
