KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/18 August) — Police have arrested a suspect in the car bomb explosion in Tacurong City last Monday, Chief Supt. Benjardi Mantele confirmed at 2:50 p. m. Thursday. Mantele said that Datu Karim Masdal was arrested last Tuesday
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 August) – Sixteen-year old Rahima Usman from the Maranao tribe was crowned Hiyas sa Kadayawan 2011 on Wednesday evening at the Davao Recreation Center. Usman, a nursing student at San Pedro College, outshone nine other candidates from
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/18 August)—Residents of a middle-class subdivision in Barangay Gusa are growing impatient over the City Engineer’s Office alleged inaction on their flood control project. The Capistrano Complex Homeowners’ Association (Capcom) has opted to build its own
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 August) – The Department of Health (DOH) in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao is closely watching at least five villages in this city and nearby Polomolok town in South Cotabato due to the noted clustering of
Roberto Dahay fixes his load of pop rice and bakery products which he would sell in Purok Logdeck, Dagat Ki Davao in Valencia City. MindaNews photo by Walter Balane
Senator Aquilino Martin Pimentel III prays during mass at the San Agustin Cathedral in Cagayan de Oro City on Thursday, August 18, 2011. It was the first time that Pimentel came home to Cagayan de Oro after he was installed
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/17 August) – Environment groups today called on President Benigno S. Aquino III to scrap current energy plans for Mindanao saying these rely heavily on building new coal-fired power plants “that will only exacerbate poverty and armed conflict”.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 August) – The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has terminated its oil spill cleanup operations along the Sarangani Bay as it declared to have contained the oil leak from a cargo vessel that sank in the area
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/17 August) – Malaybalay Bishop Jose A. Cabantan said any proposal for a peaceful resolution to the Mindanao conflict should be made transparent even as he preferred to defer his comment on the proposed sub-state for the Moro
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/17 August)—The provinces of South Cotabato and Cebu have finally forged sisterhood ties, a development expected to boost the tourism potentials of the former. South Cotabato Vice Gov. Elmo Tolosa said the memorandum of understanding for the sisterhood
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 August) – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) has recommended the permanent relocation of residents from a riverside community in Bagumbayan town in Sultan Kudarat following last Friday’s flashfloods and
BEIJING (MindaNews/17 August) – The Philippines and China have agreed to set up several mechanisms to combat cross-border offenses to include terrorism, illegal drug trade, and economic crimes. The agreement was made following the official visit of Philippine Justice Secretary
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A report in Philippine Daily Inquirer sporadically quoting from the President’s speech and an interview after the signing of RA No. 10153 on June 30 (Acting ARMM chief must have a plan – President Aquino. July 1, 2011) with other sources corroborating, clarifies the “Corollary Question” in the last issue: “What is in the master plan for the OICs to go about instituting reforms in ARMM?”
IN TRANSIT (MindaNews/17 August) — So much has already been said about the Philippines being so rich, and yet if given a choice, many of its already destitute people, would join the exodus abroad. When you say the word abroad,
BEIJING (MindaNews/17 August) – As a descendant of one of the Chinese immigrants living in the Philippines, going on a trip to China is both exciting trip and a bit of tricky especially since I have considered this country to
