MARIHATAG, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews / 2 Oct) – A fresh wave of fighting between Army soldiers and an unidentified armed group triggered a new round of evacuees in this town on Friday. Marihatag Mayor Allan Pelenio told a Senate Committee
TANDAG CITY (MindaNews / 2 October) – Church leaders reiterated their calls for the disbandment and disarming of paramilitary groups that are being accused of sowing terror in Lumad communities in Surigao del Sur suspected to be sympathetic to the
Volunteer church workers distribute hot soup to children of newly arrived evacuees at the town gymnasium in Marihatag, Surigao del Sur Friday (2 October 2015). More than 200 families or 1,000 persons fled from Barangay Mahaba, Marihatag in a fresh
Manobo children try to continue with their daily chores as studen ts at the evacuation site in Tandag City on Thursday (1 O ctober 2015). Some 3,000 mostly Manobo Lumads fled their homes in Lianga, Surigao del Sur and neighboring
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 2 Oct) – Police authorities are eyeing extortion as behind the bomb explosion inside a passenger bus in Polomolok town in South Cotabato around noon Thursday that injured 18 people. Chief Supt. Lester Camba, Region 12 police director,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 2 Oct) – The National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) 11 said it is planning to coordinate with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to do a study that will depend on the requirements of Davao City,
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 2 Oct) – Bicycle-riding policemen will become permanent fixtures in major streets here starting next week.[] Sr. Supt. Maximo Layugan, city police director, said they will deploy beginning Monday the city’s first bicycle patrol unit to help
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews / 2 Oct) – First, you need to have strong knees. But worry not, the ascending footsteps that are threatening vertical high are cemented, all 340-plus. It can be a pain in the neck to the less
