DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 October) – Two members of the Mangudadatu clan have been accused of allegedly raping a 20-year old student in a downtown dormitory. Datu Naga Mitra Mangudadatu of Tamnag, Lutayan, Sultan Kudarat, his cousin, alias Puti, and four
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 October) — The government has remained non-committal on whether to push through with the privatization of Mindanao’s major hydropower complexes as provided for in the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (Republic Act 9136), Mindanao Development
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 October) – Congress needs to exercise its oversight powers to check “unilateralism” in the Climate Change Commission and enable it to come up with adaptation plans that will make the country less vulnerable to the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 October) – Power consumers here and in nearby South Cotabato and Sarangani provinces are in for another relief in their power bills after local power utility South Cotabato Electric Cooperative II (Socoteco II) further reduced its
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 October) – Police authorities have placed the entire city under red alert following the deadly bomb attack on a passenger bus in North Cotabato on Thursday that killed 10 people and injured more than 20 others.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 Oct) – Two speeches at the ARMM Peace Summit – those of Ambassador Dato Seri Dr. Ibrahim Saad of Malaysia and Ambassador Reslan I Jenie of Indonesia – were keynote addresses. Yet, neither one keynoted the
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/21 Oct) – Who would have thought that today’s barangay elections could become as festive, if not raucous, as say, elections for local and national posts? Nothing but the name differentiates barangay elections from the contest for higher
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/21 Oct) – Ten passengers died while 30 others were injured when a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) exploded inside the Rural Transit bus as it was traversing the highway in the municipality of Matalam in North Cotabato
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/21 Oct) — A part-time computer instructor at a Catholic-run university here was charged Monday at a local court for sexual harassment and child abuse after he allegedly threatened to flunk his teenage girl student if she would
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 Oct) – Government anti-drug personnel seized some P20 million worth of equipment and chemicals allegedly used in manufacturing metamphetamine hydrocholoride or shabu following the discovery Wednesday of a mini-shabu laboratory at an outskirt village in the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 Oct) — The head of the field testing of the genetically-modified Bt eggplant at the University of the Philippines in Mindanao said he feared that people might be incited to harm their experiment, declining to give details
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 Oct) – Police personnel in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao have intensified their security operations in various parts of the region to avert any possible disruptions or the escalation of violence in the run-up to the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 Oct) — Foreign donors upbeat under the new administration of President Aquino want to pour in more aid for the rebuilding efforts in Mindanao, Mindanao Development Authority (Minda) Chair Luwalhati Antonino said. Antonino, who talked to a
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 Oct) — RD Corp., the giant home-grown conglomerate that made a huge chunk of its fortune from fishing, has acquired a state-of-the-art fishing vessel worth P612 million to improve its tuna catch volume. Rodrigo E. Rivera
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/21 Oct) — The vice mayor of South Upi in Maguindanao who was implicated in the alleged rape of a 21-year-old volunteer nurse in his town will voluntarily submit himself before the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for
