MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/01 October) — Noting it was not possible that
those who took and passed the June nursing licensure examination in the Visayas and Mindanao benefited from the reported 'leaks' that marred the test, Senator Ralph Recto today said those nurses should not be required to take it again.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/01 October) — Reports saying the mayor allegedly involved in a drug delivery to Davao City was from North Cotabato are not true, Govermor Emmanuel Piñol said in a statement.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 September) — Fifty-two hopefuls have applied as judges for seven vacant Regional Trial Court branches across Mindanao, the
Judicial and Bar Council announced in a statement on Sept. 26.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 September) — Armed men believed to be members of the New People's Army operating in Makilala town in North Cotabato on
Friday burned a passenger bus owned by the Weena Bus Company.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 September) — Extortion could be the motive
behind the grenade throwing this morning at a mobile phone store here, the
city police said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 Sept) — Women law enforcers are not spared from sexual harassment or physical abuse by their partners, superiors and colleagues. Around 16 percent or 560 out of 3,500 policewomen surveyed in 2005 by the Philippine National Police (PNP) reported having been sexually harassed by their partners and about the same number experienced physical beating by their husbands or partners, Supt. Eldebrande Osano, Philippine National Police director for Family, Juvenile, and Gender Division told more than 500 policewomen during the 4 th Biennial Summit on Women in Policing Thursday.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / September 29) –Six persons, including a village official, were wounded in an explosion Thursday night inside the state-owned University of Southern Mindanao in Kabacan, North Cotabato.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 Sept) – The Suara Bangsamoro party list has urged the government to stop its military offensives in Sulu province during the month-long Ramadhan.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/26 Sep) — The provincial government of South Cotabato will conduct another auction sale next month for all real properties with recorded tax delinquencies.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/26 Sep) — The Regional Development Council (RDC) of Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao urged the Air Transportation Office (ATO) to immediately release the approved P3.8 million funding for the upgrading of the city airport’s electrical facilities.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 Sep) — Forty days after his wife was hacked to death by his own sister-in-law, 39-year-old Reynaldo “Mike” Jickain still could not find justice. He blamed the police for not acting on his case.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/26 Sep) — North Cotabato Gov. Emmanuel F. Piñol ordered Monday the extension of legal assistance to couple Miraluna and Noel in their pursuit of justice for their 12-year-old daughter who was raped and murdered at Barangay Marbel, Matalam last Sept. 17.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/26 Sep) — After a six-month extension in the construction, the multimillion-peso transport terminal here is set to be inaugurated next month, just in time for the celebration of the city’s Fifth Timpupo Fruit Festival.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/25 Sep) — An “amicable settlement” was reached today between relatives of a 15-year-old Maguindanaon girl who was gang-raped last week, and the three suspects, all of them members of the Army’s 40th Infantry Battalion assigned in a village in Carmen, North Cotabato.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/25 Sep) — The police here filed today murder complaints against the two suspected killers of Anton Durana, nutrition and health teacher at the Finishing Arts and Career Enterprising School (FACES) who was shot dead last Tuesday inside a music bar.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/25 Sep) — The Philippine National Oil Company Energy Development Corporation (PNOC-EDC) pledged to release P50.2 million next year the for rural electrification project in the province of North Cotabato.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 September)– Labor Secretary Arturo Brion on Friday assumed jurisdiction over the labor dispute between fruit giant Dole Philippines Inc. and the Asosasyon sa mga Mamumuo sa Dole Alang sa Kalinaw Demokratikong Nasud- National Federation of Labor Unions- Kilusang Mayo Uno (Amado Kadena-Naflu-KMU) after the union rejected on Thursday the company's "improved offer."
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.
