ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/23 September) – Some 200 residents of Barangay San Jose Gusu were evacuated to the public elementary school there Sunday due to floods brought about by continuous rains and strong winds spawned by an inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ).
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/23 September) — The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has installed eight weather tracking devices in Southwestern Mindanao (Region 12) as part of its efforts to improve the area’s weather monitoring systems. Dr. Zenaida Hadji Raof
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/23 Sept) — The Department of Agriculture (DA) in Region 12 has urged backyard swine raisers in the region to integrate meat processing in their operations so they can earn more. Dr. John Pascual, regional coordinator of DA-12’s
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/23 Sept) — This third of a series of articles anticipating a peace agreement in Mindanao looks at lessons learned from the peace process in Aceh. Subsequent installments will look also al lessons learned from additional places both
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 September) — On September 21, 2001, exactly 30 years after then President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos issued the Proclamation that changed everyone’s lives, MindaNews launched “Turning Rage into Courage: Mindanao under martial law,” a book of essays written
SARANGANI (MindaNews/23 September) — In November 2010, we were happily trekking the trails of Barangay Pag-asa, Alabel, Sarangani on our way to conduct a youth mentoring activity among the first-year students of the newly established integrated school in New Canaan.
ILLEGAL MINING STOPPED? Philippine Air Force choppers sent to investigate illegal mining operations along Iponan River in Cagayan de Oro City on Sept. 21 spotted this payloader tearing away the river banks. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo
BAHALINA MAKER. Hedo Arcay, 61stands besides rows of bottled bahalina or coconut wine in his house in Barangay San Juan, Agdao in Davao City on Sept. 11, 2012. A native of Alicia town in Bohol, Arcay brews fine bahalina since
EARTH GUARDIANS. Pilots from the Philippine Air Force plot a course to check on the Illegal mining operations in Iponan River in Cagayan de Oro City on Sept. 21.. The two-helicopter sortie spotted six barges tearing away at the banks
POSTCARDS FROM BANKEROHAN. A photo exhibition that features the Bankerohan market in Davao City. The exhibit runs from September 23-29 at the ground floor of NCCC Mall, Maa, Davao City. Photographs by Mindanews photographers Rene Lumawag, Keith Bacongco and Ruby
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 September)—After three months, the body of Marianne Aguilar Jimenez, 34, arrived here Friday from Qatar, where she worked as a household helper. She was reported to have died of severe burns last June 17, a month after
KIDAPAWAN CITY(MindaNews/22 September) – Lawyer Alexander Padilla, chair of the government panel talking peace with the communist guerillas, has decried the indemnification of the rebel group to victims of the recent grenade blast in Paquibato district, Davao City. In a
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/22 September) – The Philippine Airlines (PAL) has cancelled on Saturday its morning flight from this city bound for Manila, and grounded the airplane after crewmen found bloodstains believed to be that of a bird on its engine.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/ 22 September 2012)—The senate finally approved last Thursday a bill creating a fourth district in Bukidnon, Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said in a statement. President Benigno Aquino III has to sign the bill into law before the
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/22 September) – Mayor Celso Lobregat has issued an order regulating the extraction and hauling of sand and gravel aggregates in a bid to curb the proliferation of illegal quarrying activities in this city. Lobregat issued executive order
