When a house is on fire,the first victory is survival.When an airplane loses air,the first mask belongs to the onewho will breathe life into another.Sacrifice is noble,but a breathless soulcannot save another.In the language of survival,when emotions take over,wisdom must
TAGUIG CITY (MindaNews / 1 July 2026) — Imagine watching a basketball game. One referee blows the whistle. The crowd boos. Fans argue. Coaches protest. Maybe the referee simply made a bad call. Then a second referee whistles for the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 June 2026) – The Davao City launch of the Dapat Isa Lang Movement (D1LM), a nationwide people’s initiative to pass a genuine anti-political dynasty law in the country, was held here Tuesday, aimed at gathering
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 30 June 2026) – An educators network on Tuesday junked calls for heightened police presence in schools and lowering the age of criminal responsibility after two minors were tagged in a school shooting in Tacloban City
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 June 2026) – Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez’s claim misdiagnoses the problem, overlooking structural realities that research consistently identifies as the true drivers of youth offending. The Claim and Its Flaws Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews / 29 June 2026) – Local government units comprising Zamboanga Peninsula on Monday received funds from Malacañang as financial assistance to barangays and selected scholars. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. led the distribution of the financial assistance under
PLACER, Surigao del Norte (MindaNews / 29 June 2026) – There are places that never forget. The day begins like countless others. A group of young people boards a bus carrying nothing heavier than backpacks and anticipation. They laugh over
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 29 June 2026) — There is a silence in Philippine politics that always comes before a big political defection. It is not the silence of doubt. It is the silence of a done deal. The deal
MindaNews / 29 June 2026 – The Internet these past few weeks is filled with news of grief and horror. Students shooting classmates, and two basketball prospects drowning during a team training. These tragedies draw out sympathy, but also spark
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews / 28 June 2026) — On Monday morning, June 22, 2026, the morning air at San Jose National High School in Tacloban was not filled with the familiar cadence of school bells or the chatter of students
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 June 2026) — Laughter erupted from a roomful of aspiring performers — many of whom had never stepped into a musical theatre workshop before — as they belted songs, stumbled through choreography, embraced mistakes, and
NEW YORK (MindaNews / 28 June 2026) — This week, civil society peacebuilders from around the world gathered in New York to participate in the inaugural of the UN Peacebuilding Week. The event celebrates 20 years since the establishment of the
Members of the LGBTQ+ march in the streets of Koronadal City to celebrate Pride Month on Sunday, 28 June 2026. MINDANEWS PHOTO
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 June 2026) — The tragedy in Tacloban, where two teenagers were implicated in a gun killing, is not an isolated event. It reflects deeper social fractures: impaired discernment among adolescents, social disability rooted in poverty
TAGUIG CITY (MindaNews / 28 June 2026) — Walk into a café in New York. Or London. Or Sydney. Or Singapore. Somewhere between the matcha lattes and oat milk cappuccinos, chances are you will find something unmistakably Filipino. An ube
(Address delivered during the Commencement Exercises of the College of Law and Graduate School of the Ateneo de Davao University on Saturday, 27 June 2026) Sit down po. Medyo 20 minutes ito. Kung may ad lib, baka 25. Maayong Good
MindaNews / 27 June 2026 – On June 8, 2026, a Magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Sarangani in Mindanao, killing and injuring several people not just in the province but also in other areas in the neighboring Davao Region. In addition,
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 27 June 2026) – The city government has tapped a Quezon City-based company for the recycling of waste into fuel for use by two local cement factories, an official said. In an interview on Thursday, Aldwin
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 27 June 2026) – Eight of the Top 10 passers in the Licensure Examination for Architects (LEA) are graduates of Mindanao schools, with the topnotcher coming from the University of the Philippines-Mindanao, results posted on the
The waves will never be quietwhile your wails search for those words That will heal your woundof the drowning From Aurora to Davao to Talacogonwe see what was supposed to be a hero’s welcome Turned into a farewell rideof dreams
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 27 June 2026) – When minors commit acts of violence, such as the tragic gun killing in Tacloban, the instinctive response is often punitive: punish the offender, deter others, and restore order. Yet punitive justice alone
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 June 2026) – What happened in Dipaculao, Aurora on June 8 that led to the death of Rene Clert Baterbonia and Divine Adili was hazing and the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 June 2026) – “Divine is home. His body arrived in his hometown Umueri in Anambra state today, but this is not the homecoming we prayed for. We sent him to the Philippines with blessings, with
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 June 2026) — Mindanao could see expanded international cooperation in education, labor mobility, trade, and disaster resilience as European diplomats signaled growing interest in strengthening partnerships with the region beyond its long-standing role in peacebuilding.
LAMITAN CITY, Basilan (MindaNews / 26 June 2026) – Thousands of residents on Thursday turned up for the grand commemorative program of Lami-Lamihan Festival in Barangay Malinis that featured a grand parade, dances, and float competition. For this year the
DOHA, Qatar (MindaNews / 26 June 2026) – Ang kuwento ni Rene Clert Baterbonia ay maihahambing sa kuwento ng bawat manggagawang Pilipino (OFW) na piniling lumayo sa sariling bayan, bagamat masakit at yakap ng kalungkutan ang bawat pag-alis, pinili pa
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 26 June 2026) — Authorities ended on June 23 the search and rescue operation for Alkharj Gomez Zamayla, a hiker who went missing two weeks ago on Mt. Kalatungan Range in Bukidnon. Major Joann Navarro,
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 25 June 2026) — Fifteen years old. That’s the age of my son, Pablo. He was born in Davao City — ground zero of the Davao Death Squad, later rebranded and sanitized as the “Diehard Duterte
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 June 2026) — “Memories can betray you,” a character remarks in Topografia (2022). The line becomes something of a thesis for a road film where memory, history, and storytelling prove equally unstable, and equally impossible
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 June 2026) — Ateneo Blue Eagles player Divine Adili is finally home in Lagos, Nigeria, 17 days after he and new recruit Rene Clert Baterbonia of Talacogon, Agusan del Sur drowned during a “team building”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 June 2026) — Mindanao stands to gain significantly from carbon credits through initiatives such as reforestation, watershed protection, and enhanced climate resilience. By converting natural assets into economic benefits, carbon credits encourage the conservation of
A flag bearer sends off the remains of Mindanao basketball hero Rene Clert “Bobet” Baterbonia on Wednesday (24 June 2026), in Talacogon, Agusan del Sur. The flag bearer ran from the Talacogon Gym to his burial grounds at the new public cemetery, a distance of about 3.3 kilometers. MindaNews photo by GREGORIO C. BUENO
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 25 June 2026) — On June 24, 2926, Rene Clert “Bobet” Baterbonia was laid to rest. He is the first person to be buried in Talacogon’s new municipal cemetery in Barangay Labnig, on a thirty-square-meter lot
TALACOGON, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews / 24 June 2026) — Rovelyn Baterbonia arrived at the new municipal cemetery in Barangay Labnig with her family at 10:07 a.m. and as soon as the lid of the white casket was opened two
By Guinevere LatozaPhilippine Center for Investigative Journalism Highlights Companies owned by some of the country’s richest business tycoons have run circles around government regulators, allowing them to gain control of the country’s clean energy resources. Last year, Ramon Ang’s San
Rene Clert ‘Bobet’ Baterbonia’s mother, Rovelyn, gets emotional during rites at her son’s burial at the new municipal cemetery of Talacogon in Agusan del Sur Wednesday morning (24 June 2026). MindaNews photo by MANMAN DEJETO
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / June 24, 2026) — When political analyst Richard Heydarian described parts of Mindanao as having “Sub-Saharan levels of human development,” the phrase quickly entered public discourse. To some, it was a blunt assessment of economic
BURIAS, GLAN, Sarangani (MindaNews / 24 June 2026) — Residents who live along Barangay Burias, one of the spots identified as having shorelines with coastal uplift, are facing an uncertain future. Not only has the beach front moved around 200
Students ride a “Skylab” in Talacogon, Agusan del Sur on Tuesday (23 June 2026). It is a motorcycle with wooden extensions on both sides — in effect looking like the space station of the 1970s — to accommodate more passengers. MindaNews photo by MANMAN DEJETO
TALACOGON, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews / 24 June 2026) — Rene Clert ‘Bobet’ Baterbonia will be laid to rest on Wednesday morning in the town’s new municipal cemetery in Barangay Labnig while his Blue Eagles teammate, Chukwuemeka Divine Adili, who
The Immaculate Conception Church inside the Xavier University campus in downtown Cagayan de Oro City. MindaNews file photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
Senate Bill No. 2092 naming the waling-waling(Vanda sanderiana) as the National Orchid of the Philippines.
For healthcare professionals and social workers alike, the daily reality of our practice is defined by a frustrating truth: the worst pathologies we encounter rarely originate in the human body. They originate in poverty, substandard housing, structural exclusion, and unequal
Last of two parts DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 June 2026) — Fast forward to 2025, the actual average disposal in the city’s Sanitary landfill in Barangay New Carmen, Tugbok District, reached 753 tons, almost double the 385.49 ton average when
MOBILE HOME. A group of men in Sitio Praperto, Barangay Malala, Jose Abad Santos town, Davao Occidental help transfer a ‘bahay kubo’ in bayanihan fashion. Bayanihan is said to be a core Filipino value representing communal unity, cooperation, and mutual aid. MindaNews photo by GREGORIO C. BUENO
Water level at the Nuing River has fallen after an 8 June 2026 landslide blocked the river upstream. The soil and debris have created an unstable dam that now threaten four sitios downstream. MindaNews photo by YAS D OCAMPO
FUN RUN. Runners jog past the finish line Sunday, 20 June 2026. The fun run was part of the town’s activities as Matungao, Lanao del Norte celebrated its 77th Foundation Day. MindaNews photo by RICHEL V. UMEL
BARANGAY BALITON, Glan, Sarangani (MindaNews / 22 June 2026) — Volunteer groups and vloggers appear to be delivering ayuda faster in far-flung areas across Glan, Sarangani and Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental, according to locals affected by the June 8 Magnitude 7.8
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 June 2026) — For years, public conversations about the country’s anti-illegal drug campaign largely revolved around suspects, arrests, crime statistics, and law enforcement. Far less visible were the children left behind. On Thursday, June 18,
1st of two parts DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 June 2026) — Johnsan Temple did not only check the weather app or listen for storm warnings, he had to monitor the rising waters in the narrow canal in front of his convenience store on
