DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 July) – From P800 million in February to P75 million in March or a 90% drop. A huge chunk of gold output from small-scale mining operations in the Davao Region may have been sold to the black
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 July) — The Chamber of Mines said it would not interpose any objection to the latest revision of President Aquino’s still unreleased executive order on the new mining policy but prodded Malacanang to release it as soon
Various groups of persons with disabilities (PWDs) based in Mindanao have criticized the Commission on Elections’ decision to cancel the planned special voter registrations for this sector this month. The cancellation shows how the PWD sector stands with the administration
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 July) – The city council on Monday refused an appeal from fruit companies to lift the local moratorium on the expansion of agricultural plantations. City councilor Canuto Barroso, chair of the committees on agriculture and environmental
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/03 July) — The Antoninos and the Pacquiaos will have a rematch of the 2007 elections. Only this time, it will be Rep. Manny Pacquiao’s brother Rogelio (Roel) Pacquiao who will try to beat General Santos City
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/03 July) — Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon Jesus Paje seemed to have “conveniently” forgotten where some of the logs seized in Butuan City last month came when he decided to relieve 31
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/03 July) — Reports of alleged ammonia leak from the tanks of the mothballed Philippine Nickel Mining and Industrial Corp. Inc., in Nonoc Island, Surigao City were false, city officials who inspected the site last Friday said. The
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/03 July) – Airport authorities are planning to raise the terminal fee at the city airport here to P150 to cope with mounting operational costs and development requirements. Allan Punay, Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 July) – Twelve houses were completely destroyed and four others were partly damaged in a fire that hit Barangay 76-A in Ecoland here, past 7pm yesterday. According to Senior Fire Officer Dioscoro Baja Jr., the fire
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/03 July) — The Malaysian government is building a stronger trade and investment partnership with South Cotabato, with the planned entry of ventures in palm oil production and tourism as part of its bilateral agreement under the Brunei
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 July) – Mindanaoans should not be afraid to invest their income in financial or debt instruments, or put up a business that could increase their money, a Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) official said. The BSP, citing
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 July) — When they would have been knee high to the grasshopper, re now in my classroom greeted each other that way – slapping palms front and back then linking hands and laughing. It was early in
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/03 July) — With Manny Pacquiao and his family spending summer in Europe and probably already heading to Jerusalem, all has been quiet in the Land of Pacman. All he is committed to, for now, is that
