DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 December) – December 14 , the last of the “possible dates” for exploratory talks proposed by government peace panel chair Marvic Leonen, has passed but Mohagher Iqbal, chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panel
IT’S CHRISTMAS. It’s Christmas and the time for year-end bonuses and cash gifts. Government employees in Malaybalay City will be receiving this week P50,000 each as cash gift, the rest of the workers, including barangay health workers, will be receiving
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 December) — In the 1970s, at the onset of the martial law era, the Marcos government implemented a program called the “Green Revolution,” which purported to increase agricultural production many times over using “modern” farming methods. Farmers were convinced to plant hybrid rice varieties churned out by scientists at the International Rice Research Institute of the University of the Philippines in Los Banos, with ample help from multinational companies and donor institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation and even by United Nations agencies, including the Food and Agriculture Organization and UN Development Programme.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 December) – The aging Agus 6 hydroelectric power plant in Iligan City, commissioned in 1953, will get an additional lifespan of 30 years as the Regional Development Council (RDC) of Northern Mindanao approved its P2.6-billion
