DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 November) — A student was killed and eight others, including two teachers, were injured in a vehicular accident Saturday morning in a highway in Calinan district here, police said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / November 17) — The occasion was momentous enough to call for a temporary end to my boycott of commercial TV. Combined elements of the Philippine National Police and the Criminal Investigation Detection Group, about 30 of them – though some estimates went as high as 50 – had caught up with the self-described ‘resident adviser of failed coup attempts in the Philippines’. Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan, former Philippine Army colonel, former senator, forever the ‘face of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement’, was ignominiously nursing a fractured left foot and a deeply gashed right foot at a Muntinlupa hospital. It looks like he is going nowhere at the moment.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / November 17) – The new proposal of the government to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front on territory offers a "very positive” chance of breaking the impasse in the peace negotiations, the government adviser on the peace process said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / November 17) – Military and police officials here took lessons from the peacekeepers: "Be guided by the primacy of the peace process because you don't exist in isolation".
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 Nov) – A human rights approach to peace negotiations could help break the impasse in the talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), an official of the South-South Network (SSN) said at the launching of a report on peace processes by an international human rights body.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/16 Nov) — The “peace zones” formed in former battle zones, according to North Cotabato Gov. Manny Piñol, are an “anomaly,” and he is thus urging that referendums be held in these places to find out if residents are supporting or rejecting it.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/16 Nov) – The number of potential school dropouts in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao practically dropped by at least 11,771 during the last six months, thanks to a new government-initiated food aid program.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/16 Nov) — Health authorities in South Cotabato are studying the viability of putting up its own network of “botika” or drug stores in various parts of the province in a bid to provide its constituents greater access to cheaper medicines.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/16 Nov) – The Mega Market of Kidapawan Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MMK-MPC), one of the biggest group of market vendors in North Cotabato, received last Wednesday another round of financial livelihood assistance from the local government unit (LGU) amounting to P450,000.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 November) – Children of Maitum town in Sarangani province stood on the roadside, waving paper flags on which were written various spellings for “justice” for their slain mayor, George Yabes, as his hearse passed them Wednesday.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 Nov) –A top Army official in Southwestern Mindanao has confirmed today that the four elements of a paramilitary group believed to be missing since All Souls Day in Tulunan, North Cotabato were brought to an Army headquarters in Compostela Valley to undergo a thorough investigation.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 Nov) — Is the division among Mindanao business groups for good? New leaders of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Mindanao faced the media Wednesday pushing to move forward for a "One Global Mindanao" but Mindanao Business Council chair Romeo Serra said "patching up is immaterial".
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 Nov) — ARMM Gov. Zaldy Uy Ampatuan has claimed that the notorious family feuds, or ridos, in the autonomous region are gradually being resolved through the efforts of the Regional Reconciliation and Unification Commission (RRUC).
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 Nov) — Vice President Noli de Castro, who chairs the Housing Land Use and Regulatory Board (HLURB), is set to approve Cagayan de Oro City’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP), a statement said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 November) — Kidapawan Bishop Romulo Valles has been appointed the new bishop of the Archdiocese of Zamboanga vice Arcbhishop Carmelo Morelos who turned 75 on December 11 last year.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/14 November) — Police intelligence operatives in Southwestern Mindanao arrested in a raid in Sultan Kudarat province a suspected bomb expert and leader of a kidnap for ransom gang operating in the region.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 November) — Is your workplace safe? For companies to be more productive and safe, they should have a safety officer for every 200 employees. For the "highly hazardous" work set-up, it should be one for every 50, said lawyer Ma. Brenda Villafuerte, director of the Department of Labor and Employment's Bureau of Working Conditions.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Local officials in South Cotabato have censured the Department of Energy (DOE) and the three mining companies exploring the coal deposits in the mountains of Lake Sebu town for bypassing the authority of the provincial government over the proposed large-scale coal mining development project in the area.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/13 November) — The Philippine National Police (PNP) has created a special task force to get the killers of three-term mayor George Yabes of Maitum, Sarangani.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/Nov 13) – The Jesuits Invitational Games-Companions Cup 2006 opens Nov. 26 to Dec. 1 in Cagayan de Oro City according to Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU) sports coordinator Pochollo Elegino.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/Nov13) – The Philippine Airforce edged Philippine Coast Guard, 88-84 and the CMO prevailed in the 4th Mayor Rodrigo Duterte AFP-PNP Basketball League yesterday at the Davao City Recreation Center here.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 November) – The police are looking into the possibility that the killing Saturday afternoon of three-term mayor George Yabes of Maitum, Sarangani, is politically motivated, Senior Supt. Efren Valeriano said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 November) – An official of a non-governmental organization here wants the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Cebu next month to discuss overfishing, a major threat to food security in the region.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews) – Anakpawis party-list group and members of the militant Kilusang Mayo Uno today scoured and gathered signatures pressing for the release of detained Anakpawis partylist Representative Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran from vendors and buyers in the largest public market place here in a manner reminiscent of an election campaign.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/17 November) – The city government here has allocated some P15 million to complete the city's preparations for the hosting of the 2007 Palarong Pambansa on April 22 to 28.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/11 November) — Eight persons from a hinterland town in North Cotabato were arrested by a joint police-Army team for allegedly selling fake gold bars.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 November) — “Successful” was how the head of the congressional team sent to Sabah to look into the situation of detained Filipinos and the status of Filipino refugees and their children there, described the outcome of their mission.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 November) — The head of the congressional team sent to Malaysia by the House of Representatives to ask authorities there for a “smooth and staggered deportation” of Filipino women and children considered illegally staying in Sabah, made the headline of Kota Kinabalu’s The Borneo Post last Tuesday for allegedly saying the children of refugees who fled the war in Mindanao are “not Filipinos.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 November) – Mindanao, specifically Davao City, will host the 1st EAGA Media Summit in March 2007.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/10 November) — Key leaders of the Regional Development Council of Region 12 (Southwestern Mindanao) will meet with national government officials and representatives of foreign donor agencies in Manila next week to lobby for some P11.2 billion worth of investments for priority development projects in the region.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 November) — All public installations should have a physical security and a bomb incident plan, an official from the military's explosives unit said Friday.
But it isn't an alarmist pitch, said Capt. Ramon Torres, commanding officer of the 6th Explosives Ordinance Disposal Detachment Unit. "We are only trying to increase the awareness of the public on these explosives," he said in a press conference here.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 November) — A few days before we had to go back to school, my daughter Sage was very concerned that it was supposed to be sem break and I was not getting any rest. I used the break to work on my grad school requirements and to catch up on the editing of articles for the journal. Ever the sweetheart, Sage asked me to give her something to do that would help me.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 November) – The Papal Nuncio, Fernando Filoni, Pope Benedict XVI's ambassador to the Philippines, has urged the youth to “be strong in faith and constant in hope” amid calls to be “shining beacons.”
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/09 November) – The City Prosecutor here says there was no pressure from Malacañang to drop Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Al Haj Murad Ebrahim from the charges of multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder in relation to the October 10 bombings in Tacurong City and Makilala, North Cotabato.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/09 November) — Some 2,000 holders of the College Assurance Plan (CAP) in the province convened at DXND mini auditorium on Wednesday to organize into an association that would sue the pre-need firm.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 November) — The new guidelines released by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) on processes governing entities entering ancestral domains further infringe on the rights of Lumads (indigenous peoples), a lawyer of an alternative law group said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 November) — Three years ago, he was a fresh-faced political science freshman who dozed through most of my meticulously prepared lectures. I did not mind so much because he would ace my exams. Maybe he just took in lectures that way. He was pretty much participative when my instructional methodology called for active student participation.
KORONADAL CITY (MIndaNews/08 November)– The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) in Southwestern Mindanao (Region 12) today questioned the proposed development of a large-scale coal mining project by a British-backed mining company in a proclaimed protected landscape and watershed area in the mountains of Lake Sebu, South Cotabato.
KOTA KINABALU, Sabah (MindaNews/08 November 2006) – Governors and mayors from Mindanao and Palawan are attending the 1st BIMP-EAGA Local Government Forum here on Thursday (November 9), to discuss what they can do together to strengthen cooperation within the sub-region.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 November) — Agusan del Norte-born Humphrey Monteroso, 44, acting deputy special prosecutor of the Office of the Ombudsman Central Office in Manila, is the new Deputy Ombudsman for Mindanao, besting three others in the shortlist of the Judiciary and Bar Council.
KOTA KINABALU (MindaNews/08 November) – An 18-person delegation from Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia will take a historic journey on November 9 as they ride their motorbikes all the way to Mindanao, for peace.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/08 November) — The two community organizers of a Davao City-based non- government organization who were arrested on November 4 in Tulunan, North Cotabato claimed to have suffered mental torture in the hands of their captors.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 November) – For business, this city is better than Makati, Amado Castaño, vice president for Visayas and Mindanao of Union Bank told reporters at the Club 888 in Marco Polo Hotel Wednesday. For Castaño, Davao City tops the list of best investment areas in the Philippines. His second choice is Tagbilaran City then Makati City.
KOTA KINABALU (MindaNews/08 November 2006) – Want to know what the EAGA areas are selling or offering to investors and tourists? Find out in the exhibit dubbed “Experience BIMP-EAGA 2006” at the Centerpoint Mall here on November 9 to 12.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/08 November) – The Cotabato Council of Muslim Elders today commended North Cotabato Governor Emmanuel Piñol for his “prompt action to ensure that justice is given to the victims of the November 2, 2006 Banisilan strafing incident. “
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/08 November) — Some 60 Oblate missionaries nationwide have urged the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) panels to continue their search for ‘non-violent’ solutions to the armed conflict despite the odds.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/7 Nov) — Inter-religious dialogue is among the key discussion topics as thousands of young people from around the country will gather here for the National Youth Day 2006 starting Nov. 8.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/7 Nov) — The city council here has passed a resolution Tuesday urging both chambers of Congress to intervene in resolving Davao City's boundary disputes with the neighboring provinces of Bukidnon and North Cotabato.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/7 Nov) — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao urged local government units (LGUs) in the area to set measures that would protect and preserve the more than 55,000 newly-planted trees in various parts of the region as part of the Green Philippine Highways (GPH) program.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/7 Nov) — The Department of Education (DepEd) may have found a way to control the rising number of students who have been yearning to join the already bloated nursing profession.
