KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/09 September) – A group of Moro and Christian leaders in Mindanao has echoed fears that the unabated military operations in Sulu and in other areas in the region will lead to a spate of human rights violations against Moro civilians.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/Sept. 8) – A Maranao business leader here suspects that a ‘rido’ or clan war, was likely behind the grenade explosion at the public market here Thursday night that killed two persons and injured six others.
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/Sept. 8) – The National Electrification Administration (NEA) recently approved the restructuring of the Lanao del Sur Electric Cooperative, (Lasureco), allowing the cooperative to create three business districts and constructing more electric lines to unserved areas in the province.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/07 September) – The opening of Cebu Pacific
Airways flights next month will transform the local cargo and air travel
scene into an “open market,” South Cotabato Rep. Darlene Antonino-Custodio
said.
MALUNGON, Sarangani (MindaNews/07 Sept) — The government's continuing
implementation of the expanded value-added tax (E-VAT) scheme has taken its
toll on one of its biggest anti-poverty programs.
2 killed, 7 injured in GenSan market blast
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/07 Sept) — Two persons were killed while
seven others were injured when a grenade exploded in the public market here
at around 6:40 tonight (Thursday).
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 Sept) –"Is he a terrorist or an anti-terrorism
expert? Which is which?" Davao City's feisty mayor, Rodrigo Duterte asked.
Everything went well until he came up with this, Duterte said of Samson
Macariola, his consultant on managing firearms and ammunition services.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 September) — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has denied
having ordered a weapons expert to sneak bomb components into two commercial
flights on August 14. Duterte told Sonshine TV Network Wednesday night that he is ready to be investigated but stressed he never ordered anyone to test airport security measures and denied the man managed to carry bomb components in the plane undetected.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/6 Sep) — Parents of nursing graduates here who passed the recent board examinations are asking the Court of Appeals to allow their children to take their oath, saying the alleged examination leakage did not reach Mindanao.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/6 Sep) — Suspecting that the half-finished big boat being constructed in Maitum, Sarangani was built with illegally-cut timber, environment officials in the province seized the boat and called on the owner to come out and produce proof that he got the raw materials legally.
SHANGHAI, China — A giant company in the United Kingdom has expressed interest in importing banana chips from North Cotabato. Greg Maclean, general manager of Sainsbury’s Asia Lt., has talked to Gov. Emmanuel Piñol during the World Food China Exposition held at the Shanghai International Expo Center Sept. 4-6.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/6 Sep) — The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) will not be downgraded into a staff agency but would remain as a line bureau of the Department of Agriculture (DA) based on the department’s proposed rationalization program, Agriculture Secretary Domingo Panganiban said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/5 Sep) — Government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front negotiators are now in Kuala Lumpur for the resumption of talks after being stalled by the contentious ancestral domain issues.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/5 Sep) — The Philippine government should be a regulator and protector of the welfare of its people, not a promoter of mining operations in the country, an official of an international human rights group said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/5 Sep) — The long-delayed inspection of local fishery operations by European Union (EU) safety inspectors may not happen this year due to the unavailability of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) during the scheduled inspection next month.
KORONADAL CITY (Mindanews/5 Sep) — The provincial government of South Cotabato plans to put up a revolving fund for medicines at the South Cotabato Provincial Hospital to encourage the indigent beneficiaries of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) avail of its health services.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/5 Sep) — The grueling pre-trial of the administrative charges filed against village officials here started yesterday with the defense denying knowledge of the existence of the documents presented by the prosecution.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/5 Sep) — The foreign-funded project that aims to contribute to poverty reduction in Southwestern Mindanao is set to turn over on Thursday infrastructure and livelihood projects to poor farmers in Bubong, a fifth class municipality in Lanao del Sur.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/4 Sep) — The Department of Trade and Industry, through its “PCs for Public Schools” (PCPS) program, has donated 10 computer units, complete with accessories and peripherals that will enable the units to connect to the Internet, to seven schools in this city.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/4 Sep) — The Philippine National Oil Company – Energy Development Corporation (PNOC-EDC) has already paid the local government unit here some P73 million real estate taxes.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/4 Sep) — The tuna fishing industry may soon get fuel subsidy as the government is trying to find means to help the crisis-hit sector, according to Agriculture Secretary Domingo Panganiban.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/4 Sep) — The government has started negotiations with the Indonesian government for the repatriation at least 10 fishermen from this city who are currently jailed in Indonesia for alleged illegal fishing violations, tuna industry leaders here revealed.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/4 Sep) — In a bid to ensure the quality of marine and aquaculture exports from the city, the government plans to establish another fish quality control laboratory here that would feature various modern facilities and equipment, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/4 Sep) — Business tycoon Lucio Tan’s plan to pour in P1.25 billion in investments in this city is now fast becoming a reality, according to Mayor Vicente Y. Emano.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/03 September) – Will lowering the tariff on
Philippine tuna shipments to the United States contribute to the peace process in Mindanao?
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/03 Sept) — Provincial officials of Cotabato led by Governor Emmanuel Piñol will go to China Monday for the World Food China Expo on September 4-6 at the Shanghai International Exhibition Center.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 September) — Former President Fidel Ramos became
known for selling ideas like the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East Asia Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA). Now he is selling his Sunday column in the Manila Bulletin, and with the same zeal he had when he used to sell the country's potential to foreign investors when he was still the president.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/02 September) – Transportation and Communications
Secretary Leandro Mendoza has assured the agribusiness sector in Cotabato of a functional airport before the year ends.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/02 September) — One hundred barangays in selected
municipalities in North Cotabato will soon have their own rubber nurseries.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/31 August) — South Cotabato Gov. Daisy Avance-Fuentes vowed to give up her post as chair of the Confederation of Governors, City Mayors and Municipal Mayors’ League Presidents of Mindanao (Confed) should the group endorse the proposed amendment the 1987 Constitution through the controversial people’s initiative approach.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/31 August) — Two contenders from Davao City made it to the shortlist from which the next Mindanao ombudsman will be chosen, the spokesperson of the Office of the Ombudsman for Mindanao said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/31 Aug) – Moro National Liberation Front Chairman Nur Misuari has been invited by Saudi King Abdullah, Head of State of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to attend the World Muslim Leaders Summit on September 6 to 9 in Jeddah, Hajji Gapul Hadjirul, national coordinator of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Central Committee said.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/31 August) – Bonsai artists from the Kidapawan City Bonsai Society, Inc (KBSI) took the lead in the 2006 Mindanao Open Bonsai competition that started last Tuesday in General Santos City, bagging all major awards.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 Aug) — Business and government officials see the split of the military's Southern Command into two as favorable to peace and development in Mindanao with Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema saying "it's a solution to the security problem."
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 August) — The newly-activated Armed Forces Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom) has been given its first marching order: crush the communist rebellion but uphold the peace process between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 August) — The Armed Forces Southern Command, the Philippines biggest military force, ceased to exist effective morning of August 29, 2006.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/29 August) — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lauded the North Cotabato provincial government and the Publishers Association of the Philippines (PAPI), for initiating a media summit in the province.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 August) — At least 1,000 subscribers of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) were arbitrarily disconnected this month when a still unidentified group stole hundreds of meters of copper wire cables in Toril district here, an official of the telecommunications firm said.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 August) — Some 20, 000 teachers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will soon receive their unpaid September 2005 salaries amounting to about P200 million, a top regional official said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/27 August) — A 30-year old guard was found
dead at around 10 o’clock in morning on August 24 at Deling’s Building, along J. Catolico Avenue this city.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/26 Aug) — Couple Ramil and Edelisa Tejano left their home at a farming village in Tantangan, South Cotabato very much excited early last Aug. 18 hoping to see some movie stars and the colorful street festivities at the famed Kadayawan Festival in Davao City last weekend. They reportedly planned their trip several weeks ahead so they would not miss any of the scheduled activities the next day.
But the Tejanos’ trip became their last. Tragedy met them in the streets of Davao City and they neither lived to see any movie star nor any of the Kadayawan festivities.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/26 Aug) — Police here collared five suspected drug couriers, one of them a woman, in a buy-bust raid last Friday along Alim Street.
Chief Insp. Leo Ajero, officer-in-charge of the city police, identified the leader of the group as Ginafel Espejo alias Jing-Jing.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/26 Aug) — The dismissed second impeachment case against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was already doomed from the start as it reportedly failed to gain enough support even from the ranks of the minority bloc in the House of Representatives, South Cotabato Rep. Arthur Pingoy Jr. claimed.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 August)—National Police Chief Oscar Calderon, called recently on the country’s municipal mayors to activate their municipal peace and order councils (MPOCs) to help simmer down the heat of insurgency.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/August 25) – Two passengers died on the spot and 13 others were hurt when a Rural Transit of Mindanao Inc. (RTMI) bus from Cagayan de Oro City fell into a highway canal in Calinan early Friday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 August) — The government should fulfill its promise to put up next year a satellite office of the Intellectual PropertyOffice (IPO) here to help Mindanawon inventors and back it up with a patentresearch facility and support services, an official of the MindanaoInventors Federation Inc. said.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/24 August) — South Cotabato’s image as a largely “opposition country” might have been shattered a bit with Second District Rep. Arthur Pingoy’s decision to vote in favor of House Justice Committee report recommending the dismissal of the second impeachment case against President Arroyo.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 August) — Regional police Intelligence
operatives arrested two suspected car thieves while conducting highway
patrol operations on Sunday along the highway in Barangay Inanama,
Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat. Chief Inspector Ruel Berango, Administrative Officer of the Police Regional Office in Region 12, identified the suspects as Mods Sasa Amil and Datu Manot Sangutin, both residents of Barangay Pimbalayan in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (Mindanews/23 Aug) — Hundreds of residents in a remote village in Matalam town in North Cotabato evacuated to safer grounds after warring armed groups exchanged fires at the boundary of Sitio Panyalum and Sitio Mampurang in Barangay Taguranao, last Friday. Reports said the trouble in the area erupted with the entry of five workers from AJMR Holdings Corp., a banana plantation company, came to inspect the land for possible development.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/23 Aug) — Director General Oscar C. Calderon of the Philippine National Police (PNP) will be the guest of honor and speaker in the Cotabato Media Summit on August 26 here in the wake of unmitigated killings of journalists. The new PNP chief is expected to present new solutions in solving attacks against Filipino journalists, particularly those practicing in the provinces.
