ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/05 February) — The order directing all regional offices of the Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to suspend the “acceptance and processing of new mining applications,”was hailed by representatives of
DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/05 February) — Despite the slow-progress in the peace process between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the government under the seven-month old Aquino administration, MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim expressed optimism Saturday that “in a short time we can come out with the proper political formula from the negotiating table (so) we can have the beginning of a just peace in the Bangsamoro homeland in our time and generation.”
MALAYBALAY CITY – Here’s one for the books. The machines are intended to ensure there is no overloading but the portable weighing machines delivered to the Department of Public Works and Highways in Northern Mindanao for the implementation of the anti-overloading campaign supposedly effective February 1, 2011 as mandated by law, were defective, Leonardo Paulican, officer-in-charge of the DPWH Bukidnon’s 2nd engineering district, said.
HOME. The balangay “Masawa Hong Butuan” is welcomed by Butuanons on Friday afternoon for its final voyage. MindaNews photo by Bobby Timonera
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/5 Feb) – Still reeling from a flood that submerged its streets and a fire that razed down several offices at the city hall compound, this city greeted with a thunderous applause the return of the Balangay Expedition on Friday afternoon.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 February) — The Aboitiz-owned Hydro-Electric Development Corporation (Hedcor) is eyeing five more run-of-river hydropower plants in at least three provinces in Mindanao, most of them within ancestral domain areas of indigenous peoples. Rene Ronquillo, Hedcor president, said
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/05 February) – Cotabato City Vice Mayor Muslimin Sema has denied allegations he was behind the January 8 kidnapping of a Filipino-Chinese trader there. The victim, 54-year-old Adin Yu, owner of the city’s oldest hardware store, was snatched
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 January) — A study documenting the Reproductive Health (RH) Movement in Davao City echoes the RH bill debate in the country as it cites the strong opposition in the Catholic hierarchy as one of the major challenges
FULL OF HOPE. Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, is escorted as he walks to the venue of the press conference Saturday, February 5 in the MILF’s Camp Darapanan in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. MindaNews photo
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/05 February) – An environmentalist-lawyer has urged legislators in North Cotabato to look into the province’s Environment Code before they allow the field testing of a genetically-modified eggplant inside a state-owned university in Kabacan town. In a forum
