GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/05 August) – It was a meeting of firsts: the first time a Philippine president met with the chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front; the first time top leaders of government met with top leaders of
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/05 August) – President Benigno Simeon Aquino III did what his mother did 25 years ago in pursuit of peace: meet with rebel leaders. Against the advice of her security sector, then President Corazon Aquino traveled to
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/05 August) — Now the silence can be explained. President Benigno Simeon Aquino III and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim shook hands and talked peace for two hours in a hotel in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 August) – Three years after the aborted signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD), secrecy continues to shroud the peace talks between government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), with both panels keeping mum
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/4 August) – Sarangani and South Cotabato officials on Thursday called the resignation of Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri as “a big loss for Mindanao and the entire country” even as they expressed support to the beleaguered lawmaker’s
MALAYBALAY CITY (04 August) – Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri’s decision to resign sounded like a bold sacrifice on his part. Hopefully the move will put a closure to allegations that he benefited from the cheating that marred the 2007 election,
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/4 August) – While residents of Bukidnon province are saddened over Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri’s resignation, residents here are not celebrating either. Aside from wearing black arm bands, Zubiri’s supporters in Malaybalay City were even planning
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/4 August) – The Police Regional Office (PRO) 12 has granted special leave privileges to all its Muslim police personnel in the region in observance of Islam’s Holy Month of Ramadan. Chief Supt. Benjardi Mantele, acting PRO-12
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/4 August) – The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), which has consultative status in the United Nations, has protested the inclusion of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the International Commission against the Death Penalty, citing the trail of
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/4 August) – The Abu Sayyaf bandits have once again seized a victim in Sulu just three days after they freed the 30-year-old wife of a businessman, a military official disclosed Thursday. Lt. Col. Randolph Cabangbang, Western Mindanao
