GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/01 February) — While browsing the web to get the names of the members of Philippine Military Academy Class 1981, whose most controversial alumnus is retired Philippine Army Lt. Col. George Rabusa, I came across a Thai
A number of small scale miners at sitio Depore, barangay Balabag, Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur bring their children at the rod milling site to help in breaking ores. This practice is being discouraged by local officials to prohibit child labor
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/31 January)—Foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines Inc. has completed the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the Tampakan copper-gold mining project, an Australian mining executive today disclosed. Sagittarius Mines also continues to undertake other various activities, defying the threat posed by the open-pit mining ban imposed by South Cotabato province. The firm eyes open-pit mining in extracting the massive deposit the bulk of which lies in Tampakan town.
BALABAG, Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur (MindaNews/31 January) — About 250 small-scale miners and some 5,000 residents of this barangay face displacement once TVI Resource Development Inc. (TVIRD), a subsidiary Canadian company starts open-pit mining operations under a Mineral Production Sharing
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/31 January) — The Philippine Navy has enlisted the help of fishermen, tapping them as reserve forces, to go after pirates in the high seas preying on tuna fishing expeditions, officials said. On Sunday, the Navy reservists,
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/31 January) – Government agents seized Sunday night various chemicals and materials believed used in manufacturing metamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu in a raid on an alleged “kitchen-type” drug laboratory located within the city’s downtown area. Dominic Cerro,
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/31 January) – A security guard was killed, another was seriously hurt, and a bystander was hit when robbers pulled a heist and fled with some P500,000 from bank employees at a busy intersection here midmorning today, the
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews) — After one of their colleagues was killed in a highway robbery Saturday night in Pikit town in North Cotabato, journalists in North Cotabato urged authorities to curb the rash of highway robberies that have victimized a
