4 A.M. alarms went off in the usual way but it was only Nicky who seemed to have stirred. Much later, it was Felix then Adri and Trinket and Carmela. I did not want to get up and laid perfectly still hoping not to be noticed. “I’m afraid I shall have to forgo the trek today” I heard Ixi say. “I am still very tired and have not recovered from yesterday’s trek.”
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/25 September) – A driver abducted September 14 at the GMA terminal here was freed Friday afternoon without ransom, as five Maranaw victims kidnapped Wednesday in Maguindanao were also freed. The freed victim, Haris Daud, was reportedly released
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/25 Sept) – The North Cotabato Provincial Police Office has established additional outposts in strategic areas along the highway as they start today the implementation of the Comelec gun ban in preparation for the Oct. 25 synchronized Barangay
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/25 September) – A still unidentified tricycle driver rescued a wounded baby python near the foothills of Mount Apo but later sold it to a pet shop here saying he could not afford to feed it. Ryan Cabante,
DRAWING BIRDS. School children learn to draw various Philippine birds at the First Asian Bird Fair and 6th Philippine Bird Festival in Davao City on Sept. 24. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo
The Interreligious Solidarity Movement for Peace (IRSMP) and Peace Advocates Zamboanga (PAZ) in collaboration with Youth Solidarity for Peace (YSP) and Society of Young Peace Weavers (SYPW) had conducted series of multi-Stakeholders Orientation for the Week of Peace 2010, one
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 September) — A women’s group has urged both the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to include women in their respective peace panels. Irene Santiago, chair of the Mindanao Commission on Women (MCW), said gender ‘may not be central’ to the conflict between the MILF and the government ‘but they are central to its resolution.’
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/24 September) – Local officials of South Cotabato still have their hands full trying to stop the illegal extraction of copper ores in the mining area of the foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines Inc. with the arrest Thursday of eight
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 September)—The city government is eyeing the development of a bus rapid transport system as an affordable alternative to the mass rail transit system, although the latter is identified as among the priority areas given incentives under the
SHARIFF SAYDONA, Maguindanao (MindaNews/24 September) — For the Moro folk in the villages of Kuloy and Lapok of Datu Shariff Saydona town in Maguindanao, they can now welcome the coming of the harvest season with a smile. The reason: they
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/24 September) – Family members of an Iranun kidnap victim resorted to kidnapping too after failing to locate their relative, police reports said. According to the regional police office of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, armed men
