
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 August) — If she can have her way, Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio would rather drop this city’s tag as the “Tuna Capital of the Philippines”. Custodio, speaking to around 700 participants in Thursday’s opening ceremony for the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 August) – The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) internal affairs division (IAD) has launched a full investigation into the involvement of one of its officials and seven agents assigned in Region 12 in an alleged extortion
BEIJING (MindaNews/12 August) – International climate change experts who gathered here last week have called on governments, particularly those of the developed countries, to exert more effort in cutting on carbon emission and create new, green technologies to slowdown the
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/12 August) — Two suspected bombers died, one on the spot and the other in a local hospital, when an improvised explosive device went off in front of the provincial office of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) along
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 August) – Republic Act No. 10153, adopting “the policy of the State to synchronize national and local elections” [Section 1], provides that starting with the national elections “on the second (2nd) Monday of May 2013” and “every three (3) years thereafter”, ARMM will hold its “regular elections for the Regional Governor, Regional Vice governor and Members of the Regional Legislative Assembly” on that day [Sec. 2].
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/12 August) – Law enforcers rescued two human trafficking victims and arrested two suspects at this city’s port, a police official disclosed Friday. Senior Insp. Gemma Luna, chief of the Women and Children Protection Desk said that Melania
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/12 August) — Ace lawyer Aquilino Pimentel III’s decision to take his oath as senator in Mati, Davao Oriental Friday drew mixed reactions from local opinion makers here. Vice Mayor Cesar Ian Acenas said that Cagayanons

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 August) – As newly proclaimed Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III was being sworn into office Friday morning in Mati City, Davao Oriental, his former rival, resigned senator Juan Miguel Zubiri told MindaNews he will run again for the same

One of the quarry sites in Matina Pangi, Davao City cited by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) to have contributed to the flashflood that hit the city on June 28 which killed 30 people. The MGB recommends stopping the




