CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/23 Apr) – Tribal leaders and environmental advocates launched over the weekend a campaign that aims to mobilize one million people for the protection of Mindanao’s remaining forests.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 Apr) – Thirty print, TV and radio journalists from southwestern Mindanao have been trained on election reporting in a one-day workshop over the weekend.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNew/24 Apr) – The Canadian government announced it is adding P40 million to the Mindanao Trust Fund raised by the World Bank for reconstruction and development projects in the island-region's conflict affected areas.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 Apr) – Three staffmembers of the Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM), which is under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), were wounded when a grenade exploded just in front of their office in the poblacion of Pikit, North Cotabato around 7 p.m. tonight, sketchy reports reaching MindaNews said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 Apr) – "We should stop blaming and start working on what can be improved," the president of a mountaineers’ federation said amidst a plan by environment and tourism officials to ban a climbers’ group from Mt. Apo.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 Apr) — The Mindanao Economic Development Council announced the inclusion of the airports in General Santos and Puerto Princesa cities among areas where airlines in the BIMP-EAGA sub-region can bring both cargo and passengers.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/23 April) — Authorities have stepped up security measures here as the United States issued an advisory warning its citizens against traveling to this city for the annual Palarong Pambansa.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/23 Apr) – One was killed and more than 30 other jeepney passengers were seriously injured when the vehicle lost its brakes and turned upside down along a blind curve along Kilometer 114 in Barangay Paco, this city 1 p.m. Sunday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 Apr) – The Mt. Apo Range Natural Park Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) will ban the mountaineering group Mindanao Alliance Mountaineering Club (MALMOC) from Mt. Apo, an environment official said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 Apr) – An important local government report could have been a good tool for voters to assess if incumbent officials are worthy of reelection, an interior and local government official said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 Apr) — National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales cancelled a security briefing among government heads here in the last minute.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 April) — The government will establish a modern meat inspection laboratory here to facilitate the upcoming shipment of locally-produced pork meat products to Singapore and other international markets.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 April) – “Road safety is no accident.” This is the theme of the First United Nations’ Global Road Safety Week on April 23 to 29. The holding of a week devoted to road safety was decided upon in a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly in October 2005.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/22 April) — Police and military authorities arrested two suspects who are believed to have been behind the morning blast in Midsayap, North Cotabato Sunday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 April) — Travel advisories issued by the American and Australian governments have some basis but threats of terror attacks are isolated cases and do not represent the general picture of the security situation in Mindanao, a military official said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 April) – Gone are the days when writing a candidate’s name on condoms could spell his or her defeat. At least this is what a nationwide survey conducted in March by Pulse Asia showed.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/20 April) — Non-government organizations and private companies based in South Cotabato joined hands with the provincial government in launching a comprehensive nutrition program aimed at reducing significantly cases of malnutrition in several parts of the province.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/19 April) — The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the provincial government of South Cotabato have allocated some P16.8 million for the implementation of "food security projects" in Koronadal City and three other municipalities in South Cotabato.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 April) — The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said it can release results of the probe on the March 31 killing of nine-year old Grecil of New Bataan, Compostela Valley, only next week as its investigation suffered several constraints, including continued military operations in the area.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 April) – Cagayan de Oro is getting more Information and Technology (IT) business because it has more support from the local government unit than Davao City’s IT has from its own, an executive of one of Davao's two call centers said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 April) — A tripartite body exclusively to look into labor issues in Southeastern Mindanao's banana industry will start end of May, the regional director of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced Wednesday.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 April) — In a homecoming fit for a conquering hero, residents here took to the streets in celebration as they gave international boxing sensation Manny Pacquiao no less than the red carpet upon his return to this city Wednesday morning.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/18 April) — Two motorcycle-riding men, suspected to be the bombers, were killed when a homemade bomb they were carrying exploded at around 6:15 p.m., along Yapsay corner Jarabillo streets, some 100 meters from Sinsuat Avenue in Cotabato City.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 April) — Boxing icon Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao has scrapped his usual post-fight break in favor of yet another fight: the congressional race.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 April) – A new group of IT experts is taking over the city’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) promotions.
TULUNAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/18 April) — The remains of villagers who were killed during a vehicular accident in Matalam town on April 10 will be buried on Saturday behind the San Vicente Ferrer chapel in Barangay Banayal.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 April) — A psychosocial first-aid mission that visited last Saturday the village where nine-year old girl Grecil lived and was killed in an encounter between government forces and communist rebels on March 31, wants her body exhumed for autopsy.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 April) — Lack of witnesses is a major cause why cases filed against government officials and employees do not prosper, Deputy Ombudsman for Mindanao Humprey Monteroso said.
PIKIT, North Cotabato (MindaNews/16 April) — Sporadic armed clashes brought about by intense political rivalry between supporters of the incumbent vice mayor of Pagalungan town in Maguindanao, Datu Norodin Matalam, and the president of the town’s Association of Barangay Captains (ABC) Mokammad Andoy, have triggered the evacuation of some 1,000 families from Pagalungan to this neighboring town.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/16 April) — Police operatives in Sultan Kudarat recovered a stolen motorcycle and arrested a suspected thief during a raid in a village in Tacurong City on Saturday.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/16 April) — Communist rebels operating in Davao del Sur denied responsibility for the killing April 9 of a family in Calinan, Davao City and instead blamed a group of armed Lumads connected to a military unit for the massacre.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 April) – Extra care should be taken during military operations so as to avoid hurting civilians, a human rights official said amid reports offensives against the New Peoples Army have triggered evacuations of civilians and the furor raised over the death of a 9-year old girl in a recent encounter between soldiers and rebels in Compostela Valley.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 April) — The United Nations Children's Fund and the Moro National Liberation Front signed on Saturday an agreement that seeks to realize “extra-ordinary efforts and projects” for women and children in conflict-affected and inaccessible areas, the separatist group announced in its website.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/15 April) – His townmates here roared in jubilation as Filipino boxing icon Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao floored Mexican challenger in the eighth round of their 12-round World Boxing Council International Super Featherweight championship fight in the United States. Politics, however, has given a sour note to his victory with City Mayor Pedro Acharon Jr. announcing the local government could not give him a hero’s welcome the usual way.
TULUNAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/15 April) — The parish priest of San Isidro Labrador Parish in this town has appealed to the faithful for financial and material assistance for the families of those killed and wounded in a road mishap in Matalam North Cotabato on April 10.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/14 April) – Allocations for foreign debt servicing must be reduced and those for poverty reduction increased to alleviate the living conditions of poor Filipinos, the partylist group Assalam said.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/14 April) – A group of indigenous peoples in Southwestern Mindanao has asked the government to remove Janet Serrano as commissioner of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples for alleged misrepresentation.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/14 April) — Sixty-five young professionals and youth and student leaders in Region-12 are being eyed to undergo a trainers’ training on “Culture of Peace.”
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/14 April) — The Office of Muslim Affairs in Region-12 will host the 5th SOCSARGEN Qur’an Reading Competition on April 16 at the family Country Hotel and Convention Center in this city.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/14 April) – It is wrong to label members of the Moro National Liberation Front recently as returnees or surrenderees, Hajji Gafur Hadjirul, MNLF chief political coordinator, said in a telephone interview.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 April) — Senator Panfilo M. Lacson echoed allegations raised by some sectors that Malacanang is funding the campaign of certain party-list groups and will ‘insert’ its own ‘nominees’ once these groups win seats in the House of Representatives.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / April 13) – "We are ready to apologize."
This was the curt message of Brig. Gen. Carlos Holganza on the death of nine-
year old girl Grecil Buya, eldest daughter of Virginia Buya and Gregorio Galacio, during an encounter between government forces and the New People’s Army in Purok 6, Barangay Kahayag, New Bataan, Compostela Valley.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / April 13) – Ceasefire and peace negotiations would be up for the national government to decide, military officials said a day after Davao bishops called for a ceasefire and a return to the negotiating table with the communist rebels.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / April 13) – The Department of Labor and Employment
(DOLE) will launch a new education module on labor relations here next week,
a regional labor official said.
MANAY, Panabo City (MindaNews) – Villagers who evacuated Wednesday when the military launched an air strike against alleged members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in a banana plantation here, returned to their homes Thursday, traumatized by the experience, the first ever in the barangay.
MANAY, Panabo City (MindaNews/12 April) — Delia Escoto, 52, mother of seven and grandmother to 15, could not have imagined she would still experience fleeing from war in this paradise of a village.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 Apr) – The military has announced it will not stop in pursuing the New Peoples Army, which it accused of committing a direct assault against the government in the Easter Sunday raid of the Davao Prison and Penal Colony.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 April) – Some 300 residents of two remote barangays in Panabo City, 35 kilometers northeast from here, fled their homes Wednesday following military air strike on suspected rebel positions, the Office of the Civil Defense said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 April) – A photo exhibit on the life of North American Indians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by photographer and ethnographer Edward S. Curtis will be displayed at the South Gallery of SM City Davao from April 16 to 29.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 April) — The management of the Davao Prison and Penal Farm, more known by its old name, Dapecol (Davao Penal Colony), knew of the impending threat of a rebel attack but did not take appropriate measures, military and police officials said.
