SARANGANI BAY (MindaNews/01 July) — An estimated 400 American Navy and Coast Guard personnel taking part in naval exercises with Filipino troops in Mindanao are not allowed to have an R & R (Rest and Recreation) during the nine-day joint
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/01 July) — Philippine National Police chief Nicanor Bartolome has ordered the relief of the provincial police chief and six municipal police chiefs in Agusan del Sur, for allegedly failing to stop logging activities despite the nationwide ban
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/01 July) – A tornado swept through at least two remote barangays in Antipas town, North Cotabato, destroying some P2.5 million worth of banana and rubber farms as well as cornfields at around 7:45 Saturday morning but no
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/30 June) – OIC Governor Mujiv Hataman has warned politicians and potential “flying” registrants that cases would be filed against them should they cheat in the general registration of voters on July 9 to 18. Hataman told the
WOMAN POWER. A woman in Prosperidad town in Agusan del Sur works on a pile of harvested oil palm fruit as her son watches. MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/30 June)—Foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines Inc. is to blame for the rising violence in its Tampakan copper-gold project area and not the tribesmen supposedly responsible for the atrocities, a militant leader said yesterday. Ryan Lariba, spokesperson of Bagong Alyansang
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 June) — A lawyers group today hit the Aquino government for not delivering on its promise to render swift justice for the families of the victims of the Ampatuan massacre. In a statement issued in reaction to
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 June) – Six Mindanao films are among the 18 finalists in the First Sineng Pambansa National Film Festival that kicked off in the city on Friday. The films are “Tambara” by Orvil Bantayan from Davao; “Duwaya” (Polygamy),
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 June) — The Provincial Development Council (PDC) of Bukidnon on Wednesday approved a P1.852-billion annual investment plan for 2013. But the Provincial Budget Office said the fate of the plan, which is the basis for next year’s
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/30 June) – After the dancing fountain, the city government is set to establish a marine park at the Paseo del Mar, this city’s newest number one attraction. Mayor Celso Lobregat said the marine park will be built
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 June) – Some 100 soldiers took time out from their field duties to attend a training on human rights in Makilala town in North Cotabato. The soldiers belong to the 57th Infantry Battalion and special forces units,
