The Office of the Deputy Ombudsman for Mindanao will submit to Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez this week its report on the lifestyle check it did on the government officials among the Ampatuans who are presently detained for the November 23, 2009 massacre in Maguindanao that left 58 persons dead, 32 of them from the media.
“We in the military have been avoiding this topic for the longest time because we don’t know how to handle it,” Major Gen. Carlos Holganza, chief of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division, said at the launching Saturday of Dr. Gail Tan Ilagan’s book, “War Wounded: Combat Stress Sequelae of 10ID Soldiers.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 June) – Ten BS Architecture graduates from the University of the Philippines- Mindanao passed the recent Licensure Examination for Architecture (LEA), one of them ranking fifth among the 993 passers. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 June) — Forest rangers of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) confiscated on Friday some 3,600 board feet or 8.48 cubic meters of illegally-cut logs of the Binuang tree, a naturally grown species in Barangay
Local constructors and real estate developers no longer need to travel to Manila to see for themselves the latest equipment and technology used in their trade as the Philippine Constructors Association, Inc. (PCA) is set to bring them here next week for the biggest construction equipment and building materials exposition in Mindanao.
A few days back, in Mawab, Compostela Valley, a detachment commander apparently lost emotional control after figuring in a domestic dispute with his wife. He took his government-issued M14 and opened fire on non-combatants, some of whom were his neighbors and some of whom were just unfortunate to have been passing by.
BANGKOK, Thailand (MindaNews/27 June) — I am writing this note here in Bangkok where I am participating in a reflection session with social activists of Thailand and drawing lessons and insights on the work of conflict transformation in Asia. Yesterday,
