Work on the Cateel-Compostela road cut through the side of a mountain in Barangay Bango in Compostela town, Compostela Valley province, exposing the holes drilled by small scale miners in search of gold. MindaNews photo by Gail Ilagan
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 01 January) — The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) attacked three Army detachments in Maguindanao on New Year’s eve but no one was injured as the soldiers managed to fire back, Capt. Jo-ann D. Petinglay, Chief
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/01 January) — Despite an intensified campaign against the use of firearms in welcoming the New Year in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), guns were still fired, leaving four persons injured, two of them minors, the
Davao City mayor and Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte answers questions from reporters as Army Sgt. Adriano Bingil hugs his mother, Myrna after the New Peoples Army released him Thursday. pharmacy Bingil was released after 104 days in captivity, to Duterte
LAS NIEVES, Agusan del Norte (MindaNews / 01 January) – The New People’s Army released an Army soldier they held captive for 104 days to Davao City mayor and Presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte and religious leaders on New Year’s eve,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 01 January) — Half-naked, the young man obligingly paused for my camera balancing a 50-kilo sack of copra on his head. He summoned a smile as I shot him. He was poised to get off the
