KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (MindaNews/18 July) – “On the same page now, but different paragraphs.” This was how Malaysian facilitator Tengku Dato’ Ab Ghafar Tengku Mohamed summed up the progress of the first two days of the three-day peace negotiations here
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 July) – An Indonesian shipping company is set to open by end-July a new direct shipping service between Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province and several key areas in southern Mindanao. Jovencio Agus, acting head of the Department
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/17 July) — Flying registrants are getting paid more and “instant registration centers “have cropped up in Marawi City and outlying towns in Lanao del Sur as the registration of new voters reached the final two days, an
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 July) – The municipal government of Glan in Sarangani province has filed pollution charges against 11 officers and crew of a Malaysian tugboat and barge that allegedly dumped coal wastes off the town’s waters last May.
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/17 July) – The Zamboanga City-based Southern Philippines Deep Sea Fishing Association, Inc. (SOPHIL) is opposing the government’s decision to lower the suggested retail price of canned sardines by as much as 95 centavos. The Department of
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/17 July)— After languishing in jail for five years, a former mayor of Tampakan, South Cotabato, site of the largest known undeveloped copper and gold deposit in Southeast Asia, was acquitted Monday of murder charges involving a political
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/17 July) — Militant women in North Cotabato condemned the alleged use of children as “guides and human shields” by soldiers who attacked suspected rebel camps in Magpet, North Cotabato on Monday. In a statement, Ruby Padilla-Sison,
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/17 July) – Only two of Bukidnon’s 20 towns and none of its two cities have completed the drafts of their revised Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUP) as of July 16, the Bukidnon Provincial Planning and Development Office
MAASIM, Sarangani (MindaNews/16 July) — From afar, the steel facility looks like a cellular phone tower but it is not. It is called the Coast Watch Station (CWS), a facility that can monitor all vessels coming in and going out
