Women dressed as mermaids pose on a tuna- and ocean-inspired float during the Tuna Float Parade on September 5, 2013, the opening day of the week-long 15th Tuna Festival Carnivale and General Santos City’s 45th charter anniversary. MindaNews photo by
BARANGAY PINATILAN, Valencia City (MIndaNews/05 September)–Eight of the 21 inmates (not 22 as reported earlier) who bolted the city jail here Wednesday afternoon are back in prison as of 5 p.m. Thursday, Supt. Roy Magsalay, city police chief, told MindaNews
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/05 September)—A former trial judge and now a city councilor has urged the Department of Energy (DoE) to resolve immediately the mandamus case that was referred to them in July by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 17
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/05 September)– Police operatives in T’boli town in South Cotabato province have destroyed around P1.5 million worth of “export-grade” marijuana that were seized in a series of raids in an upland village there. Supt. Jemuel Siason, T’boli
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/05 September)– The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region 12 is set to assess the socio-economic status of 775,335 households in the region as part of the second nationwide assessment of the National Household
TEXTS AND PHOTOS by Jesse Pizarro Boga HANOI, Vietnam (MindaNews/05 September) — It was 5 a.m. when my alarm went off. My lazy Filipino butt was glued to my bed when I heard a soft knock on my door. “Jesse?”
