ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/11 July) – Sev en rubber plantation workers were killed while 18 others were wounded in an early morning ambush today in the municipality of Sumisip in the island province of Basilan allegedly staged by the Abu Sayyaf
Tribal leaders join the panampulot during a ritual to signal the start of the 7th Andew te Keretungan (Keretungan Day) in Barangay Lourdes, Valencia City on July 11, 2012. Keretungan, or Kalatungan, is a mountain range that straddles Valencia and
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/11 July) – Fearing for their lives, the entire team of election officers assigned in the municipality of Butig in Lanao del Sur pulled out dawn Wednesday after unruly supporters of warring local politicians fired shots in the
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 July) – The Association of Barangay Councils (ABC) of neighboring Valencia City has passed a resolution urging the city council to immediately prohibit expansion of banana and pineapple plantations. Valencia Vice Mayor Azucena Huervas said over telephone
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 July) – The local government units in the province should focus on economic development and be sensitive in promoting the economy instead of politics, a business leader here said. “We don’t need mudslinging in business. The more
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 July) – Two news reports, one in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (July 7, 2012) and the other in MindaNews (July 8, 2012), gave an update of the murder case pending at Regional Trial Court Branch 221
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 July) – Around this time last year, in a conversation with then Davao Archbishop Fernando Capalla, I asked him what “secularistic” meant. He answered that it roughly translated to “worldly,” from the Latin word speculum. “Secular, materialism,
