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KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/02 August) – The Valentin Palamine Regional Operations Command of the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) has denied the minor allegedly being paraded recently by the Army in Magsaysay, Davao del Sur as a child warrior was a member
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 July) – President Aquino appealed to the media in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) today to “police your own ranks” and “give new meaning to the principles of your vocation.” Aquino said now is the
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews) – A new political realignment in the Caraga region is shaping up as four of the six congressmen in four provinces have joined President Benigno Aquino III’s Liberal Party as others vowed to support the new administration.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 July) — It was all about the huge amount of bribe money that corrupted election officials who issued orders to cluster polling precincts to favored politicians during the last elections in May, military officers and poll watchdog groups said. The officers and NGO leaders told MindaNews that this was the reason why Nuraldin Yusoph, the 22-year-old son of poll Commissioner Elias Yusoph, was kidnapped in Marawi City.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 July) — A day after his release in Cagayan de Oro, Nuraldin Yusoph finally narrated his harrowing experience in the hands of his abductors who moved him from one hideout to another in Lanao del
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/18 July) – Police claimed to have foiled a supposed terror attack timed for Sunday’s culmination of South Cotabato’s 44th foundation anniversary and 11th T’nalak Festival with the discovery Friday of alleged bomb-making materials in the house of
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/16 July) – At least 21 families in Koronadal City and Surallah town in South Cotabato lost their homes after a mild tornado and a rain-triggered landslide hit anew the area, local disaster officials said Friday. Mary
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 July) — Bukidnon Gov. Alex Calingasan said President Benigno Aquino must look into the organic fertilizer subsidy the National Irrigation administration distributed in Northern Mindanao as an important step in his campaign to wipe out corruption in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 July) — The City Agriculture office will push for “agriculture tourism” to further boost the economy of the city as well as to have an increased productivity among upland farmers. Leonardo Avila III, City Agriculture Office chief,
LANTAPAN, Bukidnon (MindaNews/14 July) — Lantapan, the “vegetable basket of Northern Mindanao” will soon have its own “bagsakan” (trading center) to ensure farmers earn more. Lantapan mayor Godofredo Balansag told MindaNews Tuesday Lantapan will soon build its P1.7 million vegetable
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/14 July) — Dengue incidence in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao has reportedly reached the outbreak level as confirmed cases in the region rose to almost 3,500 during the past weeks, and the number of deaths has
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/13 July) — Gunmen fired at soldiers escorting construction workers in Poona Bayabao town, Lanao del Sur this morning, killing one Army trooper and seriously wounding five others, the military said. Brig. Gen. Rey Ardo, chief of the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/13 July) – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) of Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao will convene anew this week to evaluate the possibility of implementing another adjustment in the daily minimum wages of private
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/13 July) — On May 2 this year, the police chief of Datu Piang town in Maguindanao, Inspector Daniel Pumecha said their station was a target of bomb attack. A bombing did occur past 8 p.m. Monday, killing
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/13 July) – City Vice-Mayor Joseph Evangelista has urged the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to review the ancillary service charges being collected by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) from the power firms in Mindanao. The
KIDAPAWAN CITY [July 12/Monday] – Cotabato 2nd district Rep. Nancy Catamco has promised financial support to the newly-organized chapter of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) here during its launching Monday at the North Cotabato Provincial capitol complex. Catamco said the
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 July) — Worrying, curious and homesick residents of Barangay Aglayan here who are now based elsewhere in the Philippines and abroad used the popular social networking website Facebook to get updates on the late afternoon fire that struck Aglayan last Thursday. The Aglayanons react to a three-minute video posted by Raquel Batusin, who is living nearby, of the fire showing a helpless fire truck against the mammoth late afternoon fire.
Among the few occupants of Celda Dos who owns a pen and knows how to use it is “Rodel”. After writing down his own “panawagan” (radio request), he took dictations from others as he jotted their personal appeals for help from “the world outside”. Entry of pointed objects, like ball pens, is restricted at the Malaybalay City Jail in Barangay Patpat.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 July) – Mindanao’s biking priest, Redemptorist Amado “Picx” Picardal is flying from Rome to Madrid tomorrow to prepare for this 26-day, 800-kilometer “running/walking pilgrimage” on the Camino de Santiago in France on July 16 to pray for
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/10 July) — Bukidnon’s two electric cooperatives are negotiating with the provincial government for reconsideration of a total of P58 million in real property taxes, claiming they do not want to pass on extra fees to consumers. Raul
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/09 July) – A two-year-old girl succumbed to complications caused by dengue hemorrhagic fever in a private hospital here on Monday as the City Integrated Health Services Office intensified its awareness campaign on the disease. Dr. Jacinto
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/09 July) – The national government has allocated an additional P15 million for the opening of more than 2,000 new scholarship grants this year for various technical and vocational (tech-voc) courses and training programs in Region 12
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/08 July) — Health authorities in South Cotabato cautioned residents Thursday against the rising cases of dengue fever, which has claimed two lives since January. Dr. Rogelio Aturdido Jr., South Cotabato Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) chief,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 July) – After being spotted by a TV news crew beating the red light in Manila, Vice President Jejomar Binay’s convoy this time obeyed traffic rules here. Although escorted by two motor-riding cops and several other policemen,
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/07 July) – Iligan City Rep. Vicente Belmonte will push for a bill that will stop the outright sale of the Agus and Pulangi hydropower complexes this year. The draft bill, said to be a product of a
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/07 July) — The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology has chosen the Malaybalay City Jail as the Philippines’ best for 2010, a citation that came 18 months after suspected members of the New People’s Army raided it
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/6 July) – A family-owned farm company here is pushing for backyard livestock farming among small farmers and even white-collar workers. In a news conference here, Roberto Puentespina, director of the family-owned Puentespina Farms Company at Malagos District
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/6 July) — Police investigators in the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are eyeing on a long-standing family feud, or “rido,” as the motive of the ambush of Pualas, Lanao del Sur Vice Mayor Dianaton Tanog that
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/04 July) — When the Bukidnon provincial peace and order council meets this week for the first time under the new administration, the number 1 item in the agenda is the presence of forces claiming to belong to
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/03 July) — Cotabato Governor Lala Taliño-Mendoza has ordered an immediate suspension of travel by provincial officials and employees who are yet to liquidate cash advances amounting to P40 million. Mendoza has ordered too the recall of all
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 July) — Emma Asok, an active member of the Catholic Women’s League in the early 1980s was on the verge of tears upon hearing the news on the church-run DXDB AM station that Francisco Claver, Bukidnon’s first
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/2 July) — A fire that hit this city before dawn on Thursday razed a kindergarten building, 17 business stalls and an industrial building, fire officials said. The school building was part of the Cotabato City Central Pilot
VALENCIA CITY (MindaNews/1 July ) – The City Government of Valencia is taking a new step in its campaign to convince farmers to go organic rice farming. Agriculture officials are dispersing ducks to rice farmers to develop organic rice farming
MALALAG, Davao del Sur (MindaNews/1 July) — As President Benigno S. Aquino III conveyed his plans and promises to the Filipino people during his inaugural speech at Quirino Grandstand Wednesday, a tribal chieftain here urged the newly installed leader of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 July) – Bukidnon’s first bishop, Francisco Claver, SJ, passed away early this morning, Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Quevedo said. “I consider him the greatest prophet among the bishops against martial law and, after martial law, against social evils.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/28 June) — The Sumilao farmers who have fasted and walked thousands of kilometers to get back their 144-hectare land have agreed to allow Del Monte Philippines Inc. (DMPI) to continue using a 33-hectare portion of the land
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 June) – Ten BS Architecture graduates from the University of the Philippines- Mindanao passed the recent Licensure Examination for Architecture (LEA), one of them ranking fifth among the 993 passers. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that
VALENCIA CITY (MindaNews/26 June) – The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) not only lacked the expertise to implement the fertilizer subsidy program, it also ignored the right and the capacity of the local government to do it, City Agriculturist Gerson Salvan
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 June) — A karate group here has offered a three-month free martial arts training for “legitimate members of the media” to help them defend themselves against assailants. The Davao City-based based Philippine Shotokan Karatedo Association International (PSKAI)
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/25 June)– Delegates of non-government organizations from Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Spain’s Instituto de Promocion y Apoyo Al Desarollo (IPADE) will meet here starting Monday for the three-day first Asian regional conference on the country’s biodiversity conservation
BARAS, Rizal (MindaNews/25 June) — Eight safety trainers including four Mindanao-based journalists yesterday graduated from a ten-day grueling course here. Coming from all over the Philippines, the graduates are expected to conduct safety training courses for fellow Filipino journalists. The
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 June) The Fertilizers and Pesticides Authority (FPA) has taken samples for laboratory testing of organic fertilizers distributed by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) following an inquiry by the Provincial Board on a possible scam. Provincial board member
17 May 2010 May 19, 2010 is WORLD HEPATITIS DAY and the World Hepatitis Alliance and Hepatology Society of the Philippines in cooperation with Davao Doctors Hospital and Southern Philippines Medical Center (formerly Davao Medical Center) are urging everyone to
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/22 April) — Environmentalists in this city and other parts of northern Mindanao joined with the rest of the world for Earth’s Day celebration with various activities. Today, Iligan government employees, with the city environmental office, planted mangrove propagules along the
KIDAPAWAN CITY (Mindanews/15 Apr) – The Army in North Cotabato overran today in Makilala town a suspected training camp of the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) after a running gun battle between government troops and communist guerillas that lasted for three hours.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/16 January) — Organizers created a new committee in its preparations for the staging of the Kaamulan Festival this year: the “field operations committee” to focus on security, traffic management and other concerns in the Kaamulan grounds, where
