KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 September) — Army bomb experts here successfully detonated a hand grenade found Sunday morning in the parade ground of the state-owned University of Southern Mindanao in Kabacan, North Cotabato.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/23 September) – The Army’s 602nd Infantry Brigade commander, Col. Ruperto Pabustan, has ordered an immediate investigation on the alleged involvement of three Army personnel in a gang rape that took place in Carmen North Cotabato last Wednesday.
POLOMOLOK, South Cotabato (MindaNews/23 Sept) – US Ambassador Kristie Kenney personally turned over Friday a modern computer laboratory package to the Nicolas Barreras National High School (NBNHS) in Barangay Glamang here as part of the US government-funded computer literacy program for peace and development communities in Mindanao.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/23 September) — Police authorities in Matalam in North Cotabato arrested on Thursday a 17-year old farmer accused of raping and killing a 12-year old girl in a remote village.
POLOMOLOK, South Cotabato (MindaNews/22 September) — Multinational Dole Philippines’ (Dolefil) 4,700-strong union workers are poised to go on strike anytime now after rejecting anew on Thursday the company’s last-minute settlement offer to break the impasse in their collective bargaining negotiations.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 Sept) — The continuing flight of doctors and nurses for overseas work in the midst of a health crisis in the country is exacerbating discrimination against women, Lyda Canson, executive director of the Bathaluman Crisis Center, said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 Sept) — At least 450 students of a rural public high school in Polomolok town in South Cotabato will soon add google, yahoo and even wikipedia to their vocabulary following their inclusion as beneficiaries of the Computer Literacy and Internet Connection (CLIC) program.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/22 Sept) — Construction workers unearthed a World War II explosive in Bernardo’s compound along Daang Maharlika national highway last Wednesday.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/21 Sept) — The provincial government of South Cotabato has launched a program for the replication of the Food Always in the Home (Faith) technology in every household in the province, to ensure residents can easily access safe and nutritious food.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/21 September) — Health officials here have ordered a crackdown on imported food products from China after one of the products downed at least 31 pupils of an elementary school here Wednesday.
LAKE SEBU, South Cotabato (MindaNews/21 Sept) – Indigenous peoples and settlers are separately strengthening their respective groups to oppose the ongoing coal exploration projects in remote Barangay Ned here.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 Sept) — The P8.9-billion proposed budget of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) for FY-2007 was unanimously approved by the House Committee on Appropriations last Tuesday, the ARMM’s Bureau of Public Information reported.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/20 September) — Nine municipalities of North
Cotabato have been chosen as beneficiaries of the Act for Peace Programme of
the Government of the Philippines (GOP)-United Nations Multi-Donor Programme
(UNMDP).
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/20 September) — A suspect facing three counts of
rape was arrested on Monday by four police operatives of Magpet, Cotabato
while he was selling durian fruits in this city.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 September) — In Davao City, environmental protection is a higher priority more than economics, City Councilor Leo Avila III said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 September) — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ordered the police here to stop video carrera gaming in Davao City as he officiated at the burning of 26 video carrera and seven fruit betting game machines Wednesday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 Sep) — The Mindanao Economic Development
Council (MEDCo) reported that the Zamboanga Peninsula, with the boom
in its agro-fishery sectors, posted a growth rate of 7.2 percentage
points last year, the highest among the country's regions.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / September 19) – The City Council here endorsed today (Tuesday) an information and technology park planned to be built at the end of this year, setting the stage of what industry leaders hoped would be a more vibrant investment here.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/19 Sep) — Some 500 hectares of rice and
corn farms in low-lying and irrigated areas in M'lang and Tulunan
towns in North Cotabato were destroyed by heavy floods that started
Saturday, reports from the M'lang local government unit said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 Sep) — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has appealed for understanding in the midst of international reactions from Muslims on a statement of Pope Benedict XVI in a German university.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 Sep) — The Korean tourist ordered deported by the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation upon the request of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has apologized for his actions and requested that he be allowed to stay longer.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/18 Sep) — Local government-led environment agency Allah Valley Landscape Development Alliance (AVLDA) has adopted the municipality of Norala in South Cotabato as part of its continuing expansion program.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/18 Sep) — The provincial government of South Cotabato has completed some P46 million worth of infrastructure projects during the first six months of the year, provincial engineer Bernardo Dormitorio Jr. said.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/18 Sep) — Police authorities collared a suspected drug courier in a buy-bust operation in Tacurong City last Sunday. Supt. Joel Limson, chief of the Tacurong City PNP, identified the suspect as Faisal Adas Pasandalan, 22, a resident of Barangay Bagundang in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 Sep) — Three separate fact-finding mission teams will be investigating human rights violations in three areas in Mindanao starting tomorrow (Sept. 18) in preparation for the filing of cases against violators before the Commission on Human Rights (CHR).
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 Sep) — The Department of Trade and Industry is now busy crafting the development plan for small and medium enterprises in Region 12 so the SMEs could improve production. Nelly Nita Dillera, business development division chief of the DTI’s regional office, said they are still on the first of three phases, which is meeting SME representatives for them to bring out their issues.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / September 16) — The government will adjust salaries of public sector workers starting July 2007 to make them at par with the market, Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya, Jr. said here Friday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / September 16) — Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya, Jr. said the government would shorten the bidding process in government infrastructure projects to deal with the poor absorption capacity of agencies implementing them.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / September 16) – The regional police command here has formed so-called “honesty teams” to weed out the erring police personnel in southcentral Mindanao and turn improve its public image.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 September) — Is the alleged threat on the life of
a labor leader here for real or is it just a case of paranoia as a military official claimed it to be? Omar Bantayan, secretary-general of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First Movement) in Southern Mindanao and one of the so–called "Davao 8" accused of rebellion in February, believed the government wanted him killed.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/15 September) – The United Republic of Tanzania’s Ministry of Energy and Minerals plans to adopt the country’s best mining practices and mineral development policies in a bid to boost its resurging mining industry. Deputy Minister Lau Masha, the ministry’s lead strategist on mineral development, said they are specifically looking at the possibility of replicating the government’s mineral production sharing policy to ensure the protection of the Tanzanian government’s interests as owner of the mineral resources.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 September) — The 39th Infantry Battalion based in Makilala, North Cotabato condemned the latest attack staged against them by the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) in Davao del Sur. Reacting to a recent statement by the NPA’s Front 51 Magtanggol Roque Command, 39th IB commander Lt. Col. Victor Tan called the attack “treacherous.”
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/15 September) – Lured by promises of getting military
ranks after undergoing a “spiritual warriors training,” six teenaged girls reportedly became victims of rape by a an old man who posed as a ‘priest’ and ‘army colonel’ belonging to the 4th Infantry Division.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 September)– Did aerial spraying cause Keratosis
follicularis, a rare disease diagnosed in a woman living near a banana plantation here? Dermatologist Maria Myla Alvarado of the Davao Medical Center did not think
so, saying the disease is genetic.
Malaybalay City (MindaNews/14 September) — The National Democratic Front
called President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo' s trip to Europe a "tour of shame,"
citing the concern raised by European leaders over the spate of unresolved
political killings that have occurred in the Philippines since she assumed
power in 2001.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 Sept) — A five-year program by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) seeks to improve Mindanao’s poor showing on children protection and development.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 Sept) — Davao’s banana industry has appealed to the city government not to ban aerial spraying by January 1, 2007, claiming the ban will adversely affect thousands of residents whose livelihood depends on the industry.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/13 September) — Peoples’ organizations with inspiring successes in the search for peace and in reducing poverty will take centerstage in the three-day civil society organizations’ forum on September 19 to 21 at the Marco Polo Hotel in Davao City.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/13 Sept) — A councilor here said a local court cannot issue a hold departure order against three former employees of City Hall who figured in the P2.3 million fund scam in Barangay Poblacion as there are no criminal charges filed against them.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 Sep) — Mindanao's scattered mango growers and contractors have to shape up amid a halt of shipment by the country's biggest exporter to Japan due to abuses in chemical use, an official of the Davao Region Mango Contractors Association (DAREMCA) said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 Sep) — Food and agribusiness giant San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is reportedly planning to establish a modern feed mill in Manado, Indonesia in a bid to produce cheaper feed products for Mindanao's animal and halal poultry industries.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 Sep) — The Department of Agriculture (DA) has tapped at least seven agricultural municipalities in South Cotabato as primary beneficiaries of the second phase of the World Bank-funded Mindanao Rural Development Program (MRDP).
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/11 Sep) — Three police officers had filed libel complaints against a trader and her son for accusing the law enforcers of stealing P100,000 after serving warrants of arrest against them.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 Sep) — A known player in Australia’s mining industry is likely to directly dip its finger in mining activities in South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and Davao del Sur, reports said.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/11 Sep) — The United Nations Multi-donor Programme (UNMDP), through the Act for Peace Programme, is sponsoring a four-day conflict analysis workshop for the Southwestern Mindanao region on Sept. 12-15.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 September) — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte fired
beleaguered weapons expert Samson Macariola amid a controversy spawned by
reports the latter allegedly sneaked bomb components into a domestic flight
last month.
SHANGHAI (MindaNews/10 September) — Twenty overseas Filipino workers from
North Cotabato working in Shanghai, China who claimed they were victims of
illegal recruitment by a retired teacher in Kidapawan City have formally
filed their complaint before the provincial government.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 September) – Saying their place is also a “durian
country,” city officials opened Sunday its durian festival, which is now on
its second year and features a month-long trade fair and other activities
that aim to promote durian and its by-products.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 September) – “Fly on the Wall,” Gail Tan Ilagan’s columns in book form will be launched Monday at the Ateneo de Davao University where Ms Ilagan teaches.
Gail writes “Wayward and Fanciful” for MindaViews, the opinion section of MindaNews.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/09 September) – A senator has questioned the sincerity of Malacañang’s order last month to law enforcement agencies to solve the spate of killings of leftist activists, citing the murder Thursday of Bayan Muna Bohol provincial chairman Victor Olayvar as proof that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has failed to rein in the military which has been blamed for most of the political and media killings.
