DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 July ) — A total of 1.56 million persons trooped to voters’ registration centers in the five-province, two-city Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) from July 9 to 18, a figure that is just 200,000 lower than
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/22 July) — Elements of the Army’s 57th Infantry Battalion recovered an improvised explosive device (IED) in Barangay Datu Celo, one of the remotest villages in Magpet, NorthCotabato at around 11 p.m., Saturday. Lt. Nasrullah Sema of the
DANGEROUS FEAT These passengers are apparently ignoring the dangers of clinging to an overloaded passenger van as it negotiates the national highway in General Santos City. Mindanews Photo by Keith Bacongco
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/ 21 July)–Several civic groups in the Caraga region and some residents now living abroad have expressed fears that the new mining policy under Executive Order 79 would create more problems and confusion to towns directly affected by
QUEZON, Bukidnon (MindaNews/ 21 July)—About 500 members of the Manobo tribe have returned to their makeshift shelters along the road of a vast sugarcane plantation here, part of which they claimed as their ancestral land. To press their claim, the
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNew/21 July) – As Muslims around the world observe the holy month of Ramadhan, an official in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao expressed hopes it will “lighten the path of the registered voters. ” The
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/ 21 July)—An official of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom) has called on the alleged victims of human rights violations in the recent fighting in Magpet, North Cotabato to file their complaints directly
MALAYBALAY CITY – President Benigno Aquino III has recently promoted Col. Romeo Gapuz, commander of the 403rd Infantry Brigade based here, to a brigadier general, Capt. Eduardo Meclat, Jr., the brigade’s spokesman, said. Gapuz assumed as chief of the brigade
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/21 July) For the first time, Bukidnon will be represented in the Mindanao Business Conference (MinBizCon) with the creation of the Bukidnon Kaamulan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BKCCI), Roderico Bioco, the group’s founding chairman, said. Bioco has
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 21 July)– A small thin kid is no match to a muscle-bulging super bully. That is the lot of the Philippines against China. A super military and economic power, China – starting with her poaching fishermen
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/21 July) – The abduction of a female micro finance staff is a case of “abduction for marriage” and not another case of kidnap-for-ransom, a top police official disclosed on Saturday. Director Manuel Barcena, chief of the Directorate
