

A woman fashions nipa leaves into roofing materials in Barangay Pagatpatan in Butuan City. [] MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12December)—At least 100,000 signatures gathered in three Mindanao dioceses against the Tampakan copper-gold project will be submitted to Malacanang to persuade President Benigno S. Aquino III to issue a directive stopping the foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines Inc. from
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/12 December) – Regular and casual employees of the provincial government will receive P60,000 each in cash gift or performance enhancement incentive, Bukidnon Vice Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri Jr. announced last week. Zubiri made the announcement even
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 December) – The provincial government of South Cotabato has issued a stoppage order against unlicensed or unregistered ore processors and ball mills in T’boli town as part of its continuing crackdown against illegal small-scale gold mining
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 December) – If realities on the on-going peace process in Mindanao are as smooth as the rhetoric from peace negotiators and as bright as the apparent optimism, Philippine Government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front may be
President PNoy’s war footing and Justice Secretary Leila de Lima’s dogged determination against a supposed co-equal branch of government, the Supreme Court, in making a former President account for her alleged crimes should be easy to understand. Gloria should now

Mayor Sara Duterte vetoes ordinance seeking to reclassify the proposed site of the coal-fired power plant in Binugao, Toril District from protected medium industrial to protected heavy industrial zone as it is prejudicial to the general welfare.
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/11 December) – First there was only one: Prof. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, University of the Philippines professor of political science, the lone woman in the Philippine Government (GPH)-Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace negotiations, representing GPH. This week, there

Egrets fly and frolic around as a farmer prepares a rice field for planting using a small tractor in Barangay Kinamlutan, Butuan City. MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas




