RESCUE DRILL. Members of the Butuan City Search and Rescue Team practice a water rescue drill in Agusan River on June 23, 2012 in the wake of threatening storms affecting the rest of the country. MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/28 June) – At least 10 gold tunnels in T’boli, South Cotabato lying in an extremely high-risk area will be closed, an official said on Thursday. Siegfried Flaviano, Provincial Environment Management Office (PEMO) chief, said the tunnels have
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/28 June) – Several residents in remote areas in this city are now in fear because of the presence of military personnel in different communities. Junribel Bustillo, a resident of Barangay Mat-i, said that the presence of soldiers
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/28 June) – The City Government of Malaybalay is creating its own multi-partite monitoring team (MMT) to address the backlog in checking compliance of companies who obtained environmental compliance certificates (ECCs) with the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/27 June) – The Alcantara-controlled Sarangani Energy Corporation (SEC) on Wednesday announced it has increased its authorized capital to P4.25 billion (US$100 million) as the company gears for the start of the construction of its 200-megawatt power
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 June) – The release of the second wave of cash grants to at least 16,000 beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) or the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) from at least six towns in North Cotabato
In June 1962, the Philippines under President Diosdado P. Macapagal formally laid claim to North Borneo. This was a year after Malaya Prime Minister Tunko Abdul Rahman had agreed with Great Britain (May 12, 1861) to expand the Federation of Malaya into the Federation of Malaysia by including Sarawak, North Borneo and Singapore which were still British colonies.
