DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 July) – Alarmed by the year-round threat of dengue, the head of the City Council Committee on Health is proposing to enact an ordinance aimed at reducing the number of cases in the coming years. Councilor Bernard
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 July) — Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte will go on leave to travel in five different countries to forge sisterhood agreements in key cities. Speaking at the “Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa” program, Duterte announced that he
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 July) – The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has raised its annual tax collection goal for the Soccsksargen Region to P3.8 billion in a bid to cope with the national government’s funding requirements for this year.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 July) — Telecommunications giant Globe Telecom will be adding 100 sites for its 3G and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) service in Mindanao. Norma Z. Ribo, Globe Telecom South Mindanao regional head, said half of
KIDAPAWAN CITY [July 29/Thursday] – The tax collectors in the city conducted on Tuesday a tax collection outreach in a village here as part of the city government’s campaign to increase local revenues. The employees of the City Treasury collected
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 July) – The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has raised some P1.9 million in additional revenues from the ongoing implementation of its flagship “Oplan Kandado” program in this city and in neighboring areas. Lawyer Marcelinda Omila-Yap,
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 July) – Former president Gloria M. Arroyo, ever the spoiler, rendered an anti-climax to what could have been a theatrical exposé of her unlamented administration’s penchant for profligacy and highly irregular fiscal transactions that left her successor
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/28 July) — The privatization of the Agus and Pulangi power complexes by 2011 as provided by the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001, will complicate the peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 July) — The local government of Maitum has filed a complaint against at least 20 persons who were arrested by a joint team from the Philippine National Police and the Army’s 73rd IB for mining in Sitio
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 July) — Organizers of the Mindanao Trade Expo (MTE) are going green this year. MTE chair Ann Pamintuan said exhibitors from different parts of Mindanao are expected to promote eco-friendly products and tourist destinations. Pamintuan, a world-renowned
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/28 July) — The potentials of the country’s halal industry were given focus Wednesday during the opening of the regional celebration of the science and technology week. Dr. Zenaida P Laidan, regional director of the Department of
An employee of the National Power Corporation monitors operations at the Agus VI hydroelectric power plant at the foot of Maria Cristina Falls in Iligan City. File photo by Bobby Timonera / MindaNews
Lantapan, Bukidnon – Close to a hundred Indigenous Peoples representatives from Luzon and Mindanao gathered at the Apu Agbibilin Community Center in Brgy. Songco yesterday agreed to craft a common platform for action which will serve as basis for their
President Benigno Aquino III yesterday (July 26) delivered his inaugural State-of-the-Nation (SONA) address before the joint session of Congress and millions of Filipinos, including 8 million Muslim citizens. The Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (PCID) lauds the straightforward manner
When it was thought to be a SONA of truths and a start of great changes for the nation, less was heard than a “tell-all” of old stories. It was not uplifting to hear again enumerations of corruption by the
