GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 30 April) – While farm sales are at an all-time low and inventory is building up, swine producers are ready to supply pork to Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon. South Cotabato Swine Producers
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 18 Mar) – Mayor Ronnel Rivera today said a total lockdown looms in the city if the situation will call for it. “We are on a calibrated response and I have asked all department heads
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 02 June) — Watching few videos of Keith Thurman fights makes you agree he packs a wallop. His unbeaten record in 22 fights makes him scarier on paper. But reading between lines of his previous fight
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/7 March) – Total fish landings at the country’s second largest fishing port complex grew by 17 percent, although local fish production slightly fell by 0.01 per cent last year, according to the latest statistics provided by
Deep within him, Sen. Manny Pacquiao knows his time is almost done or even past due. At age 40, everything physical about him 10 or 15 years ago is slipping. He no longer is as bouncy as he was when
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad (left) and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte emerge from the suite room where they were holed up after the sensational knockout victory of Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao over Argentinian Lucas Matthysse held at the Axiata
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews / 15 July) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is among the very important personalities who will be at the ringside when Manny Pacquiao, a senator in his home country, tries to wrest the World Boxing Association (WBA)
Senator Manny Pacquiao flashes his famous grin ahead of his world title fight versus defending World Boxing Association welterweight champion Lucas Mathysse on Sunday, July 15, 2018, in Kuala Lumpur. Pacquiao (left) weighed an even 146 pound to Mathysse’s 146.7 lbs
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 10 July) – A few months back, I wrote about the three great athletes that broke into the sporting world at about the same time. That was in 1996. Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods and Derek
BR ISBANE, Australia (MindaNews / 01 July) — Defending World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao breezed past the weighing scale on his first try a pound lighter than his challenger at 146 pounds during the weigh in early
BRISBANE, Australia (MindaNews / 28 June) – Philippine boxing icon Manny Pacquiao declined to predict the outcome of his championship fight but promised to give an entertaining fight against hometown favorite Jeff Horn when they collide Sunday noon here. In
Members of the Philippine government and National Democratic Front peace panels attend a special Sunday mass at the ballroom of Radisson Blu Palace Hotel in Noordwijk, The Netherlands on 28 May 2017. The panels are in Noordwijk supposedly for the
Sidewalk vendors sift through the rubble of an old, abandoned building in General Santos city that collapsed when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck at 4:23 a.m. Saturday, 29 April 2017. The building had earlier been set for demolition. The quake
The peace panels of the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front resume their negotiations on Thursday (October 6, 2016) in Oslo, Norway to tackle social and economic reforms and mechanics for a bilateral ceasefire. Photo courtesy of Edwin Espejo/OPAPP
Lt. Gen. Leonardo Guerrero leads military officers in a briefing with members of the government panel negotiating with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) at the EastMinCom headquarters in Davao City Tuesday (26 September 2016), hoping that a
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 Sep) – The first thing he would tell Ka Oris, if per chance they will meet, is for them to go home to their respective families and enjoy Christmas. “Siguro, uwi muna tayo sa mga
The GPH-NDF peace panels on Day 2 of the talks in Oslo, Norway on August 23, 2016. The reciprocal working groups on socio-economic reforms, political-constitutional reforms, end of hostilities and disposition of forces, JASIG/releases and ceasefire are meeting simultaneously on
GPH peace panel chair Secretary Silvestre Bello III shares light moments with Fidel Agcaoili of the National Democratic Front during the resumption of peace talks in Oslo, Norway on Monday (August 22, 2016). Photo courtesy of Edwin Espejo/OPAPP
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 January)—Wednesday’s diatribes between Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Minority Leader Peter Allan Cayetano make one wonder if the former has pushed his envelope too far after reinventing himself as an elderly statesman who redeemed his
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 January) — With the exception of promoter Bob Arum, Team Pacquiao – including Rep. Manny Pacquiao – is doggedly pursuing an early return to the ring for the Filipino boxing icon. If Pacquiao cannot find a
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 17 Jan) – The military here confirmed ongoing military operations near the boundary of South Cotabato and Cotabato provinces that could include areas near the mine site of Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI) in Tampakan, South
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 16 Jan) – Lt. Gen. Jorge Segovia, head of Task Force Maritime Search SarGen, on Wednesday said the search and rescue operation for the still missing 352 fisherman has been called off, more than a
GENERAL SANTO CITY (MindaNews/14 January) — In the wake of super typhoon Pablo, where 358 tuna fishermen are still missing in addition to the eight confirmed dead 40 days after it unleashed its full wrath, I tried to coax Mayor
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 13 Jan) – Manny Pacquiao is in a hurry. He wants to immediately redeem himself from two successive losses, the last of which was an emphatic knockout defeat from longtime nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez. His
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 11 January) –City Mayor Darlene Antonino Custodio is taking pains and splitting hairs addressing one of the maladies of a rapidly growing urban city. The sight of flooded streets, residences and villages are evoking images thereto
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/08 January)– Residents here should expect longer and more frequent brownouts as power supply from the National Power Corporation (NPC) to the South Cotabato II Electric Cooperative (Socoteco II) could be reduced further to mere 52 megawatts
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 3 Jan) – Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda was again at his element when he immediately castigated the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its political umbrella, the National Democratic Front (NDF), for terminating a
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 3 Jan) – Lawyer Franklin “Jeng” Gacal Jr. and I chanced upon each other during our joint 35th Reunion on December 29. Expectedly, our conversation centered on his favorite client, Rep. Manny Pacquiao. It looks
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/13 December)—The first 12 days of December came to a past yesterday and the Mayan prediction of the world apocalypse came in bundles of tragedies – a trio of them – for the Philippines. To the many
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 December) – Typhoon Pablo may have spared residents here from its wrath and fury when it swatted across large areas in eastern Mindanao. But the pain and anguish are tearing apart families and loved ones of
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/December 7) – The Philippines will now have competition in the pocket of high seas that was recently opened exclusively for Filipino tuna fishermen as the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) failed to reach a
MANILA (MindaNews / 5 December) – The owner of a fishing boat which photo was shown in a video footage taken by environmental group Greenpeace has protested over its use in a report on an alleged Filipino fishing vessel that
PASAY CITY (MindaNews/ 2 December)— The 9th Regular Session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) opened Sunday at the Philippine International Convention Center here with the search for conservation measures topping the agenda. The five-day meeting will also
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 27 Nov) – Reports from the training camp of Juan Manuel Marquez say the Mexican is bulking up and now more into weights to add power to his lethal punches. If accurate, this can only
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 27 Nov) – Finding myself in a company where I have strangely little company but nevertheless felt comfortable, I was waiting for another media dressing down from the President of the Philippines who was guest
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 20 Nov) – Philippine Senator Tito Sotto finally offered his apology to the Kennedys after the daughter of the late US senator and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy demanded that the former acknowledge plagiarizing her father’s
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 November) – Less than a week after four people were wounded in a murder attempt in broad daylight, a member of a rival Blaan clan was gunned down Sunday mid-morning in what relatives said is related
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 17 November)–As usual, I will keep tab of my round-by-round scoring when Manny Pacquiao meets Juan Manuel Marquez for the fourth time. But I will also be looking at how much speed is lost from the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 15 November)–First time visitors to General Santos City city will never fail to notice the vast tracts of idle lands upon landing at the sprawling airport in Tambler. This once desolate city was known before as
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 10 Nov) – After Bayan Muna’s failed attempt to win a senate seat in 2010 by aligning itself with a major political party, it is now trying to do what it has been really good
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 09 November) Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI) has so far kept its silence over the killing of 27-year old Juvy Capion and her two young sons last October 18 in a remote village in Kiblawan, Davao del
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 7 Nov) – Many have said it before. Speed kills. In a game that is dictated by power, speed is one great equalizer. Eight-division world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is one of the gifted prize
