[Sponsorship speech of Dinagat Islands Rep. Kaka Bag-ao for House Bill No. 4982 (SOGIE Equality Act) at the House of Representatives on 14 March 2017] The Anti-Discrimination Bill, now known as the SOGIE Equality Bill, was first filed in the
KAUSWAGAN, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews) – Fifty-seven-year-old Elisa Recla lived all her life in Barangay Tacub in this town. But there was a day in August 2008 that she could not forget. At dawn on August 18, 13 days after
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 March) – The next rounds of peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines will push through despite recent attacks reportedly staged by the New People’s Army, Labor Secretary and government peace panel chair Silvestre
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 March) – The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in Davao Region has set a tax collection target of P20 billion this year, the same amount that it set but failed to attain last year. BIR-11 eyed a
Posters condemning alleged atrocities of the New People’s Army rebels proliferate in the streets of Davao City following the ambush against police officers in Bansalan, Davao del Sur last week. Photo taken on March 14, 2017. Mindanews Photo
Bureau of Fire Protection personnel spray water on a car that burns as it passes along Kilometer 2, National Highway, Barangay Luna in Surigao City on Tuesday noon (March 14, 2017) The driver and passengers were able to escape before
On the same day the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), on 27 March 2014, residents of Wao town in Lanao del Sur staged a rally to express their desire to
DATU SALIBO, Maguindanao (MindaNews/14 March) – Ground and air attacks on suspected positions of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Maguindanao said to be harboring a foreign bomb expert entered its second day on Tuesday. Colonel Diosdado Carreon, commander of
A newly-acquired bus of the Yellow Bus Line (YBL) in Purok 6, Barangay Taluntalunan, Makilala, North Cotabato was burned at around 8:30 a.m. Monday, 13 March 2017. Police said the bus was burned by suspected members of the New People’s
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 March) — The Keynote Speaker did not directly refer to Extra-Judicial Killings (EJKs) taking place in the country today on account of the current State’s “war on drugs” but to the phenomenon of violence. His words to
Actors reenact on Monday, March 13, 2017 the arrival of American General Douglas MacArthur, his staff and family at the Macabalan port in Cagayan de Oro City after escaping from the Japanese-surrounded Corregidor 75 years ago. MacArthur proceeded to Del
TALUNTALUNAN, Makilala, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 13 March) — A newly-acquired passenger bus on its second day of plying the Marbel-Tacurong-Davao route was burned by suspected communist rebels at Purok 6 here at around 8:30 a.m. Monday, after asking its
