By Aldrin Bucoy- Abdurahim The Zamboanga City High School- (ZCHS) Main through the Supreme Student Government in collaboration with Peace Advocates Zamboanga (PAZ) and Youth Solidarity for Peace (YSP) had conducted a session on Peace Education and Governance during the
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/05 February) – The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines came out in the press lambasting the Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) for turning away its representatives from the International Conference on Mining in Mindanao held on January
MANILA (MinadNews/05 Feb) — When the Ateneo de Davao University hosted a mining conference at its campus on January 26-27, the Philippine Chamber of Mines, in support of SMI-Xstrata, which wants to put up the biggest ever mining project in
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/04 February) — Former Bukidnon representative and now Presidential Adviser on Environmental Protection Nereus “Neric” Acosta will comply with the 90-day preventive suspension ordered by the Sandiganbayan’s Fourth Division on Friday for alleged misuse of the pork barrel
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/04 Feb) — Even as donors’ aid comes in “trickles,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) raised to $39 million (around P1.7 billion) its appeal for financial assistance to victims of Tropical Storm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 February) — The government’s target to be self-sufficient in rice production by 2013 is “not achievable with mining,” an environmental scientist specializing on economic development said as he claimed thousands of hectares of ricelands would be affected if
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/04 Feb) — Members of the Mamanwa tribe said they may not allow the creation of a “Minahan ng Bayan” or People’s Small-Scale Mining Area within their ancestral domain, claiming the planners did not seek their consent. The
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/04 February) — An organization of Butuanons including US-based groups urged Congress to scrap what it called a “deceptive” proposed law to protect Hilong Hilong from destruction but would seemingly allow mining, logging and quarrying in area. Rene
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/04 February) — Bukidnon Gov. Alex Calingasan has named Bishiop Jose Cabantan as head of the Bukidnon Watershed and River Basin Forum created through an Executive Order issued last month. The Forum convenes civil society organizations to participate
Cracks are beginning to appear in one of Mindanao’s premier foreign currency earning industries as the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission gears up for its critical meet in March that could impact tuna production and its future in the region. While the government and key tuna producers are calling for the lifting of the two-year ban on tuna fishing in two pockets of seas in the Western Pacific area, some individual tuna producers say a total ban will bode well for local tuna producers in the long term.
