BLESSING. A priest blesses the palm fronds of parishioners at the Saint Joseph Cathedral in Butuan city on Palm Sunday April 1. MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/01 April) – An Ampatuan grandson who went in hiding after the November 23, 2009 massacre and got injured in a bomb blast in Mamasapano, Maguindanao on March 25, was flown to Manila Saturday and is now in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 April) — Government agents raided simultaneously 10 warehouses in Davao, North Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat Thursday, arrested nine persons and confiscated P50 million worth of adulterated fertilizers. A source from the La Filipina Uygongco Corporation, the firm
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (MindaNews/01 April) – Peace advocates in Southeast Asia urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) over the weekend to expand the mandate of its conflict resolution mechanism to include internal conflicts within its member states, among
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (MindaNews/ April 1) The European Union (EU) is expecting to gain some momentum this year with its discussions for bilateral free trade agreements (FTA) with member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as it
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/01 April) – Mayor Celso Lobregat has urged everyone to make every hour an Earth Hour to help contribute to the global efforts to reverse climate change and help save the planet from further deterioration. Lobregat made the
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/01 April) — Two bombs exploded along the Kidapawan-Magpet highway in North Cotabato at around 6:30 a. m. Sunday, just as a military truck and two private vehicles passed but not one of the passengers was injured, Lt.[]/a>
KIDAPAWAN CITY(MindaNews/01 April) — Two employees of a bus company plying the Cotabato-Davao highway were injured, one in serious condition, when a still unidentified gunman shot them as they were getting off the bus during a stopover in Midsayap, North
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/01 April) – On Friday, 30 March, the New York-based Human Rights Watch issued a statement calling on President Benigno S. Aquino III to dismantle all paramilitary groups, citing these groups’ “long and continuing history of serious human
