DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 June) – Fifty one (51%) of respondents in the First Quarter 2011 Social Weather Survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) on people’s opinion on the postponement of the ARMM elections were against postponement, 24% in favor
Lacking in drying facilities, a farmer uses one side of the Davao-Buda-Cagayan de Oro National Highway to dry cacao beans i n Marilog District in Davao City. MindaNews photo by Ruby Thursday More
Gov. Oscar Moreno (second from left), Coca-cola Chief Executive Officer Bill Schultz (fourth from left) and other executives put their hands on the ceremonial switch during the opening of the company’s US-billion bottling plant in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental. The
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews) – Parents who have given Barbie dolls to their daughters may have unwittingly contributed to the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests, according to a statement coming from the environment group Greenpeace. That’s quite discomforting too for those girls
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (08 June) — Desperate times call for desperate moves. It has been exactly a month to this day since MV Double Prosperity ran aground in the 5-hectare Bacud Reef. It has not been pulled out despite
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 June) – A coalition today warned privatizing the Agus and Pulangi hydropower complexes would increase electricity rates in Mindanao like in Luzon and the Visayas where most power plants have been privatized. In a forum at the
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/08 June) – Facing pressure from some residents, City Mayor Ernesto Matugas assured that Mamanwas who fled their homes in a village in Kitcharao town, Agusan del Norte would only be staying temporarily in an evacuation site here.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/08 June) — The North Cotabato provincial board has endorsed the field testing of the controversial Bacillus thuringiensis eggplant or Bt Talong but actual trial has yet to commence, it was learned on Wednesday. After months of deliberations,
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/08 June) — The opening of two 40-footer container vans at the Mindanao International Container Terminal (MCT), Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental last Tuesday that yielded eight high-end cars may have just been for show, as smuggling has
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/08 June) – A family from Bukidnon that has ventured into multi-crop farming in their five-hectare property has won the Gawad Saka Most Outstanding Farm Family of the Philippines 2010, an award presented by the Department of Agriculture
