KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/23 August) — The President’s men failed to strike a compromise deal with South Cotabato Gov. Arthur Y. Pingoy, Jr. on the controversial environment code that bans open-pit mining in the area. Top executives from the Department of
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/23 August) — Now on its 16th year, Siargao International Surfing Competition will start on September 24 at Cloud Nine, the famous surfing capital of the Philippines in General Luna, the island of Siargao, Surigao del Norte. Zeny
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/23 August) — Police authorities have launched a deeper investigation into the killing of a top official of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) here early Sunday. Senior Supt. Cedrick Train, acting city police director,
CLOUD 9. No, this is not in Hawaii. Australian professiona l surfer Ryan Hipwood takes a right hand barreling wave in this file photo taken during the 2008 International Surfing Competition in Cloud 9, General Luna, Siargao Island in Surigao
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/23 August) — Health personnel here have intensified their anti-dengue fumigation activities as dengue cases in various parts of the city continue to rise. Dr. Lalaine Calonzo, assistant chief of the City Integrated Health Services office (CIHSO),
COTAB ATO CITY (MindaNews/23 August) — The health department in the region is alarmed with the widespread dengue cases that have left 34 people dead, most of them children. Dr. Abdullah Dumama, chief of the Department of Health in Region
VALENCIA CITY(MindaNews/23 August) — For the first time in the parish’s history, the feast of San Agustin in Valencia City will be opened with a mass in Binukid, the language of the indigenous peoples. The 5 a.m. mass in Binukid
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/23 August) — Nearly a thousand “job order” workers of the city will no longer return to their offices following the expiration of their contracts on July 31. Mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr has started to accept new applicants
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/23 August) — A 68-eight-year-old woman died in Saturday night’s fire that also gutted more than 200 houses in Barangay Taft, the worst fire incident here in a decade. Police Chief Inspector Charlie Cabradilla said at least 360
Monday, 23 August — Prayer and fasting symbolize a movement from the outside world into our inner sanctum: the superconscious mind that links us to the Universal Mind. In both, we silence our physical senses so we can listen to
LAST DAY OF KADAYAWAN Local tourists flock to C.M. Recto Ave. (formerly known as Claveria) during the float parade on Sunday, the last day of the week-long Kadayawan Festival 2010 in Davao City. Mindanews Photo by Keith Bacongco
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 August) — A climate change activist yesterday exposed as “unjust” the government’s over a billion US dollar loan supposedly for “climate change adaptation and mitigation.” Red Constantino, Executive Director of the Institute of Climate and
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 August) — The Ecumenical Bishops Forum (EBF) Northwestern Mindanao has called on the government peace panel negotiating with the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the NDF panel headed by Luis G. Jalandoni to retur n
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 August) – Sixteen year-old Julie Kristie A. De Guzman had hoped she would make it to the 5th place so she could have that blue shirt that says “I wrote a letter to P-Noy and got this
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 August) — What do Mindanao’s teen “bosses” say when they write letters to President Benigno “Noynoy’ Aquino? To recall, President Aquino in his inaugural said: “Kayo ang boss ko, kaya’t hindi maaaring hindi ako makinig sa mga
