SAN FRANCISCO, Surigao del Norte (MindaNews/31 August) — Around 1,000 Mamanwas trooped to the municipal gymnasium on Friday last week to receive cash “bonus” from a mining company which they have allowed to conduct exploration activities in their barangays. The
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/31 August) – Malaybalay Bishop Jose A. Cabantan expressed his support for House Bill 4626 (Food for Filipinos First Act of 2011) as a safety measure for food self-sufficiency in the country. Cabantan met with Cagayan Rep. Jack
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/31 August) – The national government has allocated P301.92 million for the implementation of priority flood control and road projects in South Cotabato province next year. South Cotabato 2nd District Rep. Daisy Avance-Fuentes said the funds were
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/31 August) – The city government here is pushing for the forging of a sisterhood agreement with the industrial city of Valenzuela in Metro Manila in a bid to further enhance the area’s trade and investment prospects. City
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/31 August) — City Hall has neither provided personnel nor finished the pavilion of the dilapidated building for the Office of Senior Citizens’ Affairs (Osca), a problem blamed on the “trickling” manner of disbursing funds by
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/31 August) – Like a flare shot into the night sky, the historic meeting of President Benigno Aquino III and MILF Chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim in Tokyo last August 4 brightened hope for the Mindanao peace process only to dim on the 18th day to leave the Government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front negotiators groping in the dark under the shroud of Government’s “honestly different ‘3 for 1’ proposal”.
DAKBAYAN SA DABAW (MindaNews/Agosto 31) — Dugay na ni nahitabo. Mga lima o unom na tingali ka tuig. Nagpiknik mi nila ni Betty ug Bubot sa Samal dihang giduolan mig Badjao sa among lamesa. Namaligya siyag mga alahas. Mga perlas
A student releases a lighted lantern into the sky during the culmination of the Kagayhaan Festival in Cagayan de Oro City. MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas
Residents bring their discarded appliances, bottles and old tires to a collection center in Kidapawan City. The project dubbed “Trash to Cash” is aimed to protect the environment and prevent junk materials from becoming breeding places of dengue-carrying mosquitoes. MindaNews
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – Acknowledging that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) may not agree with the approaches of government in crafting a peace settlement, government peace panel chair Marvic Leonen said they are “ready, willing and able to
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – Muslims from all walks of life gathered in this city’s main mosque today for Eid’l Fitr, which marks the end of the Ramadan, where most of the faithful renewed their solidarity and hoped
BEIJING (MindaNews/30 August) – The visit of Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III here is expected to renew the ties of the Philippines and China, particularly in trade, and to strike an understanding over the territorial disputes in the West
BEIJING (MindaNews/30 August) – A horde of Filipino-Chinese businessmen have arrived with President Benigno S. Aquino III on Tuesday, a clear manifestation of the willingness of the government to boost trade and investment with China, the Philippines’ third largest trading
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – After months of throwing potshots, the city government finally settled the issue with local Filipino-Chinese magnate Alfredo T. Bonpin on the controversial two-hectare property at the City Boulevard. Bonpin, chairperson of the Surigao Realty Development
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – Photojournalists and photo enthusiasts have criticized the guidelines for the coverage of the 2011 Bonok-Bonok Maradjaw Karadjaw Festival slated on September 9, which will have a screening process, the imposition of a registration fee and
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – Task Force 62 of the Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM) has rescued a wooden-hull vessel in distress in the province of Tawi-Tawi, belated reports from the Philippine Navy said. Commodore Armando Guzman, NFWM commander, said
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – The South Cotabato health office is set to distribute 2,500 ovicidal/larvicidal (O/L) mosquito trap system to fight dengue even as cases in the province showed a drop in the first seven months of the year,
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – Despite the circulation of video clips showing Lingig, Surigao del Sur Mayor Henry Dano and Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) personnel appealing to the military to suspend operations against the New
