The Sokol helicopter carrying 4th Infantry Division commander Maj. Gen. Ricardo Visaya and his staff crashes just outside the perimeter fence of the 103rd infantry Brigade headquarters in Kampo Ranao, Marawi City at about 2:30 PM Thursday (August 7) three minutes
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/07 August)–Foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI) is eyeing to commence later this year getting the consent of indigenous communities for the controversial Tampakan project, a company executive said. Hounded by the open pit ban and security threats from
CEBU CITY (MindaNews/07 August) – Five state universities and colleges in Mindanao have received a total of P44.53 million from the national government for rebuilding facilities damaged by the Zamboanga City standoff last year and other disasters, an official said
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/07 August) – City Mayor Ronnel Rivera gave local police officials only until December to improve their performance, especially in addressing the worsening problem on illegal drugs and the rising number of unsolved killings in the area.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/07 August) — The city government is pushing for the construction of 54 more classrooms this year in various public schools in the city as it moves to address the area’s rising classroom backlog. City Mayor Ronnel
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines welcomes the Philippine National Police’s statement that it is “implementing more tangible actions to fulfill its crucial role in complementing national government efforts to resolve media killings and other threats to press
7 August 2014 The Mindanao summit convened by the Mindanao Migrants Center for Empowering Action Inc. (MMCEAI) will show emerging, and often disturbing trends in the movement of people from and away from their communities, as it calls on both
A trader tries to lift a container full of fish to a waiting vehicle at the fish landing area in Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City, August 5, 2014. MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/07 August) — There’s been a spate of local executives delivering a State-of-the-Province- City- Municipality (-even Barangay) addresses a la PNoy’s SONA. It would be so admirable if these so-called status-of-affairs accounts were really bona fide
