Members of the fire brigade of Kitaotao, Buk idnon show their firefighting skills in a drill on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 in Malaybalay City participated by fire departments and brigades in the province. March has been declared as Fire Prevention
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 March) – Members of an alleged paramilitary group linked to an organization of ancestral domain claimants with mining interests are harassing residents of a sitio (sub-village) in San Fernando town, Bukidnon, a Lumad leader today said. Listino
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 March) – Renewable energy firm Euro Hydro Power (Asia) Holdings Inc. is set to launch a pre-feasibility study for its planned 5-megawatt (MW) mini-hydro power plant in Lake Sebu town in South Cotabato. Engr. Santiago Tudio,
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/20 March) – Suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits seized six health workers in a remote barangay in Patikul, Sulu Monday afternoon but released five of the victims shortly after, the military said. Less than an hour earlier, another group
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 March) – An Alcantara-led power generation company has forged separate power supply agreements (PSA) with two more electric cooperatives in Mindanao that will be sourced from its planned coal-fired plant in nearby Maasim, Sarangani. Joseph Nocos,
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/20 March) – The National Statistics Office (NSO) announced that three regions in Mindanao have registered high employment rates in January of this year. The Mindanao regions that earned high marks in the NSO’s labor force survey for
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/20 March) – The Fr. Saturnino Urios University (FSUU) here is offering study grants to those interested to pursue environmental research, particularly on the effects of small- and large-scale mining and logging activities in the Caraga region. Fr.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/20 March) – Authorities arrested in a buy-bust raid here noon today a couple alleged to be drug couriers. Supt. Renante Cabico, chief of the Kidapawan City PNP, identified the suspects as Fatima Masukat and Benjie Dilangalen Payod,
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 March) – Agriculture personnel in South Cotabato are hoping to lure more major investments in the province’s agriculture sector in the coming months with the recent completion of the area’s crop suitability map. Reynaldo Legaste, South
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/20 March) – Mindanao has, for the past years, been a land of conflicts and truces for many Filipinos. News of war, bombing, evacuation and kidnappings are but a few examples of the realities that continue to unsettle
TARAKAN CITY, East Kalimantan, Indonesia (MindaNews/20 March) – A friend and Tausug blogger, Calliter (http://lupahsug.wordpress.com/), recently wrote a beautiful and delightfully graphic story of taghuri (kites) of Sulu and he pointed quite dramatically to the similitude of tradition of kite
