
TAGUM CITY (MindaNews/20 January) — Typhoon Pablo taught Compostela Valley “many lessons” and the province now wants to ensure it could respond effectively should another disaster happen by allocating P2 million this year on trainings on disaster preparedness “We learned
MARAGUSAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/20 January) — While the world focused its attention on Boston, Cateel and Baganga, the three Davao Oriental towns badly hit by Typhoon Pablo, and its neighbor, New Bataan, which posted the highest death toll along Pablo’s
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/20 January) — Residents who fled their villages on January 16 when Lake Mainit in Surigao del Norte overflowed have not returned home as the water level in the lake remains at critical level, a disaster response official

A student performs in a street dancing competition during the Halad Festival on Satuday in Midsayap, North Cotabato. [] The festival is in honor of the town’s patron, Sr. Sto. Niño. MindaNews photo by Ferdinandh Cabrera

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 January) – Rescue teams are on the alert as continuous rains since Saturday triggered flashfloods in some parts of Davao City and in the towns badly battered by the December 4 Typhoon Pablo in Davao Oriental and
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 January) — Five members of an alliance of victims of Typhoon Pablo from Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley visited Friday the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s regional office to seek assurance the agency would abide by

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 January) — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region 12 is pushing for the declaration of the scenic Lake Sebu town in South Cotabato as a Water Quality Management Area (WQMA) in a bid to

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/19 January) — Strangely, I always associate Compostela Valley with Mawab, a once tiny village settled along the Davao-Butuan highway. Mawab, created as a regular municipality in 1959, became famous to me after I read Leoncio Deriada’s award-winning
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 January) – The silence of Malacanang over the grounding Thursday of USS Guardian, a US Navy warship in Tubbataha Reef is sickening. Had it been a Philippine ship that ran aground in an American marine sanctuary we




