ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/23 December) – A casual employee, driven by his sympathy to the plight of the victims of Typhoon Sendong, decided to donate to them the sack of rice which he received as Christmas gift from the local government.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/23 December) — President Benigno S. Aquino III has allocated P450 million for the core shelter program of Typhoon Sendong’s flashflood victims in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities. The President made the announcement in his
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/23 December) — Surigao City Mayor Ernesto T. Matugas has hailed to court two radio “blocktimers” identified with his political rivals for supposedly maligning him “as a person and as a public official”. Matugas said Rey A. Culbo
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/23 December) – South Cotabato officials are planning to establish a special unit that would manage and lead the development of several facilities of the provincial government into viable business ventures.[] Board member Ervin Luntao, chair of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 December) — Authorities arrested on Tuesday a teenage scion of the Mangudadatu clan for the alleged rape of a nursing student inside a dormitory in this city in July last year. Datu Naga Mitra Mangudadatu of Tamnag,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 December) – Playing too much computer games makes some sense, sometimes. When I got a message from Maj. Jacob Obligado, chief of the 10th Civil Military Operations (CMO) Battalion, saying that as of 8 a.m. on Thursday,
Philippine Army soldiers prepare to load relief goods for Iligan and Cagayan de Oro at Eastern Mindanao Command on Thursday evening, December 22, 2011. Photo Courtesy of 10th CMO Battalion | Read Story
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 Dec) – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Mining and Geosciences Bureau (MGB-10) has repeatedly issued warnings of landslides and floods to local government units and has given recommendations on how to mitigate floods.
Baryo. Ising: ‘dot,unsa ma’y imong gilantaw-lantaw diha sa unahan? Pedot: Gilantaw lang nako ‘sing kung daghan pa ba’y kalasangan sa bukid. Ising: Unya, naa kay nakitang salin sa kalasangan nga hakpa-hakpa naman na? Pedot: Unsa’y hakpa-hakpa? Ising: Pahak ba. Nipis
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 December) – Riverside barangays that bore the brunt of typhoon Sendong’s fury in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities early Saturday morning “stood no chance to the torrent, the onslaught of large volumes of water and mud,”
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/22 Dec) – “The position of OIC Regional Governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is not a license to lord over but to serve the people,” the President’s appointed OIC ARMM Governor, Mujiv Hataman, said in
LIBORAN, Baungon, Bukidnon (MindaNews/22 Dec) – Farmer Reynor Doluna, 53, could still not accept that his namesake son is gone. Five days after it happened, his family is still at a loss after he was told that his son was
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/22 December) — The corpses of Sendong victims that were dumped in the city’s landfill in Cagayan de Oro City were transferred to a hangar in Lumbia airport on Wednesday upon orders of Local Governments Secretary Jesse Robredo
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 Dec) – The Army’s 10th Infantry Division will transport on Friday, December 23, at least 21 truckloads of relief aid to the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan for the victims of typhoon Sendong. Maj. Jacob
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 Dec) – The provincial office of the Department Trade and Industry (DTI) has warned business establishments not to take advantage of the current situation by increasing prices of commodities, especially bottled water as water supply
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 December) – The local government units of Cagayan de Oro City and Misamis Oriental decided not to hold any form of Christmas gatherings and parties as a way of expressing sympathy to the victims of
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 Dec) – Journalists, more often than not, are among the first to respond to distress calls and to arrive in disaster areas by reason and force of their trade. Many have developed the kind of distance
OIC GOV. Newly-appointed OIC Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao receives the seal of ARMM from ARMM Local Governments Secretary Haroun Alrashid Lucman at the turnover rites in Cotabato City morning of December 22, 2011. Hataman’s
