DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 August) – The Aquino Administration is undoubtedly committed to starting clean and upright. Seeking improvement rather than mere change is also what Mindanaoans commit to achieve, especially for the island. With this impending appointment of a new
TACURONG CITY (MindaNews/06 August) — The Peace and Order Council of Maguindanao in a meeting Thursday proposed the extension of the state of emergency over Maguindanao, which was declared eight months ago. Military and police, as well as civilian authorities in
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/06 August) – Mayor Celso L. Lobregat has urged warring politicians in the nearby island provinces not to bring their conflict here, as two persons were killed in a bombing incident at the airport early Thursday night reportedly
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 August) – The US Ambassador to Manila has reset his scheduled travel here today due to the bombing incident at the Zamboanga City International Airport early Thursday evening that left two persons dead, including the suspected bomber.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/06 August) – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 12 (Southwestern Mindanao) has started the processing of free patent applications for residential lands within the region’s four provinces and five cities. Raquil-Ali Lucman,
MALAYBALAY CITY (MinaNdews/06 August) — The drug menace is bothering 114 of Bukidnon’s 464 barangays with about 99 villages and two towns “moderately affected,” and two other towns as “seriously affected,” according to an official of the Philippine Drug Enforcement
Illegally-cut timbers left by poachers in a mountainous area of Brgy. Sto Niño, Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat. Indigenous peoples are complaining of rampant timber poaching in their area. Toto Lozano / AKP Images
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/5 Aug) – Police and environment personnel seized more than 60 tons of illegally extracted copper ore in separate operations in Tampakan town and Koronadal City in South Cotabato during the last two days. Ramon Ponce de
Roel Panuga is so excited that he wished the red bus he was riding to Barangay Kuya, Maramag town, has a pair of wings and can fly. The 36-year-old leader of the Danggawan Landless Farmers Association had just come from a meeting in nearby Malaybalay City and wanted to tell his fellow farmers the good news. At the meeting, officials of the Department of Agrarian Reform told Panuga that they have rejected the final legal impediment over the 100-hectare Ocaya ranch owned by the late Bukidnon Governor Timoteo Ocaya in Barangay Kuya, Maramag town.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/5 Aug) – Delays in the remittance of Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and Pag-IBIG contributions have sparked a row at the University of Southern Mindanao in the municipality of Kabacan and in its annex school in this
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/5 Aug) — Davao region ranks second, next Zamboanga peninsula, on economic performance in Mindanao for the year 2009 with an economic growth of 3.7 percent in 2008 to 5.4 percent last year, the National Statistical Board (NSCB)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/5 Aug) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced today that it is willing to support energy projects for Mindanao to help avert power shortages in the future. But Claudia Buentjen, ADB Principal Country Specialist, told reporters that
