A fishing community sits at the mouth of the Davao River in Bucana, Davao City. Photo taken on 16 November 2025 on top of the then yet to open Bucana Bridge. MindaNews photo by MANMAN DEJETO
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 April) — For the volunteers behind Art Relief Mobile Kitchen (ARMK) Davao, feeding people is less about providing relief, than about how that relief is given, and whether it responds to the realities of the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 April) – Human ang 39 ka tuig, naka bisita ko sa Barangay Pangyan, Calinan District, Davao City niadtong Abril 18, 2026. Naghandum ko nga makita nako kadtong bahin sa Davao River partikular sa Pangyan nga
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 April) — Amid the prints, stickers, and handmade crafts at Patrons of the Arts Regionals in Davao, zines — self-produced, small-run booklets that have long existed outside the structures of mainstream media and institutional publishing
Participants wearing the keffiyeh wave Palestinian flags during the National Solidarity Conference for
Palestine and Call for Peace in the Middle East held in Davao City on April 10–11. Photo courtesy of
Isaiah Alcomendras
Eighty seven-year old Precille “Precing” Delos Reyes Medillo looks up while relating an experience from World War II. She said she counld still remember hearing and seeing airplanes flying overhead while hiding in the jungle. MindaNews photo by GREGORIO BUENO
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 9 April) — To watch When Birds Can’t Fly is to enter a room already divided against itself. The film opens in the bedroom, a space at once intimate and surveilled. Shela peers out a window
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 5 April) — For young filmmaker Bea Bianca Allado of Tagum City, storytelling begins in a place both urgent and intimate: the need to understand what freedom looks like when it feels just out of reach.
Parishioners of St. Joseph the Worker parish join the station of the cross along the highway in Barangay Vicente Hizon, Davao City in this photo taken on Good Friday, 7 April 2023. Mindanews file photo
The “tabirak” aka “binignit.” “dinuldog,” “guinataan.” MindaNews file photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
Dr. Macario Tiu discusses Antonio Pigafetta’s account of Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage by mapping the route of the Magellan expedition through its recorded food and food encounters during his talk at the Utanon: V40 Culinary
Workshop in Davao City on Monday, 30 March 2026. MindaNews photo by BEA GATMAYTAN
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 31 March) — A culinary workshop on plant-based heritage food brought together farmers, indigenous groups, religious communities, and food advocates in Davao City on Monday, framing food not only as sustenance, but a shared ground across
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 March) — In a distant area in Barangay Tawan-tawan, Calinan district lies Flow Forest Farm, a five-hectare expanse of land lush with diverse plants, fruit-bearing trees, and native vegetation. The farm belongs to Maya Vandenbroeck’s
ISLAND GARDEN CITY OF SAMAL, Davao del Norte (MindaNews / 05 March) — In a field that trains its practitioners to disappear into their stories — to become ghosts — trauma does not always survive as narrative; it often lodges
Participants and organizers of the SineBalangay Film Festival pose for a photo during the awarding ceremony in Butuan City on 26 February 2026. Photo courtesy SineBalangay
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 February) — Hilda Billano Narciso is a Martial Law survivor. Arrested in 1983 on charges of conspiracy to commit rebellion, later dropped for lack of evidence, she was detained as a political prisoner, tortured, and raped
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/18 February) — I was in my first year of high school in February 1986. I can no longer recall whether it was on the 23rd or the 24th. But I can still remember how I
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 10 February) — Residents of Orchid Homes, a subdivision with over 300 houses by the mouth of Mandulog River that was one of the most badly hit areas during Typhoon Sendong in 2011, did not have a good night’s sleep when Tropical Storm Basyang swept across Iligan late evening of February 5 until the early hours of February 6.
Parties involved in the 17-year pagbanta signed Amicable Settlement Agreement on January 19 at the Ra’ayat Hall of the new Provincial Capitol in Barangay Sta. Clara, Lamitan city. (In the photo, seated, 3rd from the left is Cmdr Tand Yunus, 4th is Hji Gani Tiblani, 5th is Cmdr. Arasad Addala.) (MindaNews photo by JULES L. BENITEZ)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 January) – On the last day of the 2025 Bar Examinations, his blood sugar spiked. Migraine and vertigo followed. Dizzy and weak, he had to be carried by a proctor to the clinic. The examining
SIARGAO, Surigao del Norte (MindaNews / 14 December) — In the two and a half hour sea journey from Surigao City to Siargao, what greets the visitors first are traces of a dark green wall sticking out from the waves
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 December) — In the uplands where mornings break slowly over gardens, fields, and riverbanks, food is rarely just food. It is seed, memory, labor, and lineage. It is also testimony of who toils, who decides,
PROSPERIDAD, AGUSAN DEL SUR (MindaNews/2 December)— Young farmer-entrepreneur Japhet Gupit Tabale, owner of Cacao Prince products, is proving that agriculture and technology can thrive together as he uses artificial intelligence (AI) to market and expand his cacao business across the country. A
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / November 25) – Three wetlands in Mindanao have been recognized for their vital roles as a migratory path for waterbirds, which traverses 37 countries across the globe. The East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) recently recognized
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 20 November) — Each time the waves crash along the shore of Barangay Lago, Glan, Sarangani Province, 23-year-old Jazel Cuyos thinks of her father somewhere far out at sea. Onboard a fishing vessel that could
For Datu Rolando G. Melendez, becoming a dairy farmer wasn’t a personal choice at the start. Credit goes to the owner of the cows that he took care of in the early 1980s. He recalled that in 1983, the Philippine
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 4 November) – Across the Philippines, it has become a familiar sight: tarpaulins with smiling faces beside public infrastructure, relief packs bearing officials’ names, even certificates stamped with a politician’s image. Despite years of criticism
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 03 November) – Maitum, Sarangani province’s western-most coastal town, has bared plans to build a modern municipal center with an eco-inspired architecture, including a rooftop lined with gardens and solar panels. Maitum Mayor James Mark
by Dave Llorito From a distance, mighty waves surge with immense power, building up to their peak before crashing forcefully onto the rugged shoreline along the coast of Burgos town in Siargao Island. The impact propels water sprays to astonishing
Tucked a few hundred meters from Lake Napalit, a waterbody in Barangay Pigtauranan, Pangantucan, Bukidnon, is the office of the Bayanihan Millennium Multipurpose Cooperative. Around 20 people, mostly women, had gathered outside the rectangular building, waiting for the office to
GENERAL SANTOS CITY ( MindaNews / 22 October ) — The distance between Bulaong Terminal and Lagao National High School (LNHS), one of the designated billeting areas for Batang Pinoy 2025 athletes, is barely three kilometers — a quick 10-minute ride
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 12 October) — I fell in love with trail running because the mountain trails of my hometown are so accessible. Me and my running buddies can just run, or drive a short distance, to the trails
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 08 October) — When 22-year-old Ronilyn Salilan first stepped onto the sprawling campus of Mindanao State University (MSU) here, she felt as though she had entered another world. As a young woman from the Tagakaulo
SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines — It’s been three years since production began at a coal mine in the mountain village of Ned, some 1,500 kilometers, nearly 1,000 miles, south of Manila, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Since then, more
Adela Pijcke is aging but not like most. At 60 years old, instead of slowing down, she keeps pushing hard. And lifting heavy. She is lifting as much as 62 kg overhead, as a matter of fact, and winning weightlifting
In the southernmost parts of the Philippines, between the Celebes and Sulu Seas, lies the archipelagic province of Sulu. This part of the country, which stretches from the Zamboanga Peninsula to the eastern shores of Sabah, Malaysia, has long grappled
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 29 September) –On September 21, 2025, two days after she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 47-year-old Ma. Zyrill Torrefranca passed away peacefully at 3:30 p.m. at Davao Doctors Hospital (DDH). Torrefranca was
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / September 28) — Long before it echoed through the streets of Luneta, the song “Anak Ka ng Pu!” was already carrying the weight of years of frustration — and continuing a tradition of Filipino hip-hop as protest.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 26 September) — On paper, the Sarangani Bay Protected Seascape (SBPS) is just one of 240 legislated marine protected areas in the Philippines. But for fisherfolk who rise before dawn to cast their nets, for
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 23 September) — In 2016, Raffy Ardemil’s journey to an HIV diagnosis began with something else entirely. “Sa akong X-ray they found out nga naa koy pneumonia ug TB,” she recalled. In just a month, her weight dropped
ZAMBOANGA CITY– Basilan Governor Mujiv Hataman, in a bid to draw mountaineers and promote the island’s tourism potentials, trekked with 30 others over the weekend to the summit of Puno Ulayan, the island’s highest mountain.Rising 1,011 meters (3,317 feet) above
MATANOG, Maguindanao Del Norte— As internal conflicts continue to trouble the Bangsamoro region and the fate of decommissioning and camp transformation remains uncertain, the small town of Matanog in Maguindanao Del Norte is forging its own path to peace and
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews / 01 September) – This city is known as the home of the ancient balangays, the oldest wooden boats excavated in Southeast Asia, which showcases the early Filipinos’ seafaring and boatbuilding skills. But for the 47th anniversary
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 01 September) — Lupus is a disease most people here rarely talk about, let alone run for. Yet on August 17, some 1,274 runners in purple shirts filled the city streets, marking the third year
LAKE SEBU, South Cotabato (MindaNews / 31 August) – For about three decades now, the House of Gongs has been a quiet listener to the soothing sounds of nature, sitting beside the scenic Lake Sebu, from where cool winds gush
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 Aug) — Afternoons pass as usual, jeepneys rumbling and people hurrying by. Yet at around 2:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Friday, colorful macramé wallets, tumbler holders, and sling bags are carefully arranged on the pavement
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 11 August) — What started as a humble greenhouse experiment in 2017 has grown into a thriving community movement aimed at transforming urban farming and boosting climate resilience in Mindanao. Organikian Agriventures Corporation, founded by
by Kelly Ramos A family of artists, a mother and her two daughters who are long-time residents of Carmen — west of this city, are holding an art exhibition from August 9 to September 6, 2025 at the Fr. Demetrio
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 July) — In a heartfelt tribute to one of Mindanao’s most beloved delicacies, the Davao-based Duwende Films has recently completed “Pastil: Parehas Ra Ta’g Kan-on’g Ginakaon” (We All Eat the Same Rice), an animated indie film that
PATIKUL, Sulu (MindaNews / 13 July) – From war zone to peace zone. For approximately 30 years, this municipality had been the site of many armed encounters between the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines
