While urban kids have their fun in malls, this young boy works, riding a cow while his father follows him in Barangay Bago Libas in Aleosan town, North Cotabato. MindaNews photo by Ruby Thursday More
MALACAÑAN PALACE (MindaNews/16 October) – For the first time in their lives, top leaders and ground commanders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) set foot in Malacañang Palace on a historic journey of peacemaking. Members of the MILF Central
A motorcyclist passes by a tarp with anti-casino slogan hung in front of the Sto. Nino Parish Church in Barangay Libertad in Butuan City on 12 Oct 2012. The campaign against gambling led by the Diocese of Butuan heats up
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 16 Oct) – Indeed, the signing of the initial peace agreement between the Philippine government under President Benigno Aquino III and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was historic although not an unprecedented one. In
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/16 October) – The Zamboanga City Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation, Inc. (ZCCCIFI) has called on the public to give the peace process a chance to succeed. Pedro Rufo Soliven, ZCCCIFI president, issued the statement after the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 Oct) – Legislators of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are hopeful that the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro will bring peace to Mindanao, but warned that every citizen of ARMM and the whole
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 16 Oct) – The mother of one of the journalist victims in the Ampatuan Massacre has reported that suspicious persons have been asking her neighbors of her whereabouts. The chilling part of the inquiries,
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 16 Oct) – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has declared an urban barangay here as child labor-free as it intensified its efforts to eliminate the incidence of child labor in this city and
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 16 Oct) – Gov. Alex Calingasan announced on the second day of the Bukidnon Indigenous Peoples’ Congress Tuesday that his administration has lowered the passing rate for admission of scholars from indigenous peoples, from 85 to
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 16 Oct) – The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is pushing for the development of a strategic plan that would help transform Mindanao into a prime science and technology hub in the country and
4th of a series ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/16 October) — I first read the President’s speech, October 7, the same day it was delivered, on my 70th birthday; I saw the GPH-MILF Framework Agreement later in the day. His words really
PLEDGE. A Moro woman joins in the symbolic signing of the GPH-MILF Framework Agreement at the Freedom Park in Davao City on Oct. 15, 2012. Participants in the symbolic signing pledgeed to support the call for peace in Mindanao. MindaNews
BRIGHT FUTURE. School children from Shariff Aguak Islamic Memorial Academy in Shariff Aguak town n Maguindanao province raise small green flags in support of the historic peace deal between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front signed in Malacanang
Lumad leaders from Bukidnon led by Datu Migketay Vic Saway (chairman, Council of the Seven Tribes of Bukidnon, second from left) and Mindanao Peoples Caucus executive director Atty Mary Ann Arnado (second from right) enter the Rizal Hall of Malacanan
SIGNED. Goverment peace panel chair Marvic Leonen (right) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panel chair Mohagher Iqbal (left) sign the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro at 3:02 p. m. Oct. 15 at the Malacanan Palace, with Malaysian facilitator Tengku
MALACANAN PALACE (MindaNews/15 October) – A new chapter in Philippine history unfolded Monday afternoon with the signing of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB), putting an end to decades of what Moro Islamic Liberation Front chair Al Haj Murad
CAMP DARAPANAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/ 15 October) – Euphoria was everywhere at this sprawling bastion of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as hundreds of rebel fighters in military formation raised their assorted high-powered firearms to greet the historic signing of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 Oct) – North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou “Lala” J. Taliño-Mendoza is asking armed civilians to register their firearms, saying that there may be no longer be reason to invest in firearms following the signing of the
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 15 Oct) – Although they view the inking of the Framework Agreement between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Government of the Philippines (GPH) in Malacañan Palace Monday afternoon with “vigilant optimism,”
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/15 Oct) – The Inter-Religious Solidarity Movement for Peace (IRSMP) urged their fellow religious and lay leaders, including associates and collaborators in the big family of civil society in Mindanao, to throw their support behind the Framework Agreement
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 Oct) – Members of the Moro communities from this city and in the greater Davao area, as well as members of civil society organizations and the military, expressed their support for the peace process between
m15consulted ALEOSAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/15 October) – The big difference between the 2008 GPH-MILF Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) and the 2012 Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) is they were consulted, Aleosan Mayor Loreto Cabaya said. Cabaya
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 15 Oct) – The indigenous peoples of Mindanao welcomed the signing of the Framework Agreement between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.[] Datu Migketay Victorino Saway of the Talaandig tribe told MindaNews Monday said
ALEOSAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/15 October) – The big difference between the 2008 GPH-MILF Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) and the 2012 Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) is they were consulted, Aleosan Mayor Loreto Cabaya said. Cabaya said
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 15 Oct) – A short film produced by a group of student filmmakers from this city has emerged as among the five finalists in this year’s Faith Shorts, an annual global short film competition for
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 15 Oct) – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-Region 12 has intensified the rollout of its Skills Registry System (SRS) in all 1,194 barangays in the region in a bid to provide residents with
