DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 January) — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has expressed optimism a peace deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) can be signed “this year.”
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 Jan) – Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri has blamed the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Northern Mindanao for failing to monitor mining and logging activities which he said caused the flooding in the region.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 January) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today said it hopes the three team members abducted in Sulu are unharmed and freed “without any conditions, as quickly as possible.”
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/20 Jan) — Mindanao's businessmen are worried over the power crisis expected to hit the island.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/20 Jan) – A public utility vehicle dispatcher working undercover as a government intelligence agent was shot dead by still unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle, police said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 Jan) — When Manny Pacquiao fights, the nation virtually comes to a standstill. The streets are emptied. The police blotters are clean. Even rebels of all shades are glued to the nearest TV sets.
Such is the unifying force of Manny that many yearn he fights everyday so that this war-torn and crises-laden country will finally have its long desired peace and tranquility.
