MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/06 June) – Agricultural companies like the Del Monte Philippines, Inc. has appealed that the Malaybalay city council lift its resolution imposing a moratorium on the expansion of agricultural plantations. City councilor Anthony Canuto Barroso, chair of the
SIMUAY, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao – “It’s as if the venue of the peace talks has been transferred from Kuala Lumpur,” Mohagher Iqbal, chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panel said on the inauguration Thursday afternoon of the
PANABO CITY (MindaNews/7 June) – “To contribute to national food security; ensure rational and judicious development; sustainability and conservation of the country’s fisheries resources including the EFZ and adjacent territorial waters; reduce poverty incidence in the coastal areas; and enhance
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/7 June) – Two loan applicants from North Cotabato trooped to the office of the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), a non-government organization, after they received demand letters to pay the loan they have not even received. Monina
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/7 June) – The Mediator’s Network for Sustainable Peace (Mednet), Inc. is set to present findings of its joint fact-finding committee’s non-partisan survey on the proposed 300-megawatt Pulangi hydroelectric power project in southern Bukidnon and Cotabato provinces. Caroliza
HOT LOGS. Police and local government operatives confiscated more than 2,000 pieces of illegally cut Lawaan logs floating in the Agusan River in Barangay San Mateo, Butuan City last Sunday. The logs are reportedly worth P2.4 million. MindaNews photo by
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/6 June) – More than 2,000 pieces of illegally cut Lawaan logs with an estimated worth of P2. 4 million were confiscated here by the police last Sunday after Mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr. received information of the logs
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/6 June) – The government is supporting the setting up of a leadership institute by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), noting this is one of the building blocks to achieve a lasting peace in Mindanao. In a
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 June) – Two members of MindaNews are recipients of this year’s fellowships on environment reporting. Jose Aurelio “Toto” Rendon Lozano, 32, is presently in Bangkok Post on a 10-month exchange fellowship initiated by the Vietnam Forum of
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/6 Jun) – Quarry and small-scale mining activities in South Cotabato province grounded to a halt on Tuesday as local operators staged a one-day “mining holiday” in observance of the Environment Month.[] Siegfred Flaviano, South Cotabato Provincial
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/6 June) – A week after the final vote, we glance back and see the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato C. Corona as a drama with the plot of the tragedy – Corona the tragic hero
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 June) – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will download P2. 6 billion for reforestation of Bukidnon and Lanao, Environment Undersecretary Demetrio Ignacio announced at the end of the two-day Mindanao Economic and Environment Summit
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 June) – The Archbishop of Cotabato today proposed the declaration of a week each year, starting June 5, as Mindanao Watershed Week to help increase the level of awareness and consciousness of the people on the importance
