KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/6 Nov) — Two workers of a non-government organization were arrested last Saturday by alleged members of an intelligence unit of the Philippine Army while on their way to a remote village in Tulunan, North Cotabato to conduct project monitoring in the area.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/6 Nov) — The mining company exploring the site at the Tampakan area will likely be using the open pit method in extracting copper and gold deposits there after conducting a study as to which method is best.

BERN, Switzerland (MindaNews/6 Nov) — Last November 1, Tram number 9 eased out of its station on a special mission. November is designated “Migrants Month” and the Informationstelle fur Auslanderinnen und Auslanderfragen (ISA), a Bern-based migrant support group which turns 35 this year, was starting its “Migrationstram” project using public trams as a vehicle for ferrying the issues of migration and foreign workers in Switzerland.

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/6 Nov) — A coconut leaf beetle, believed to be from sources outside of the province, destroyed around a third of the coconut trees in a barangay here starting two months ago.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/6 Nov) — The Sarangani provincial board has approved the guidelines that will govern the use of “payao,” a fishing device to attract tuna and other fish varieties across Sarangani Bay.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 November) — Fighting erupted Saturday night, the third in a week, between government soldiers and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Shariff Aguak town, Maguindanao even as negotiators from both sides have been trying to break an impasse in the peace talks over the issue of territory.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 November) — More time and wider consultations are needed to tackle the ancestral domain issue, one of the more ticklish issues in the peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation front (MILF), according to groups and individuals that attended the Kusog Mindanao conference here on November 3-4.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/05 November) — The provincial government of North Cotabato will assist plan holders of the College Assurance Plan who want to file charges against the pre-need company for its failure to pay them since the past few years.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/04 November) – Hundreds of families from remote villages in Tulunan, North Cotabato, evacuated to safer grounds after the 38th Infantry Battalion based in nearby Makilala town fired mortars since Friday night, according to officials of the affected areas.

BANISILAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/04 November) – A company-sized unit from the 602nd Brigade and members of the Scene of the Crime Operations from the North Cotabato Provincial Police Command in Kidapawan City arrived here today to prevent an escalation of armed clashes between the group of Banisilan Mayor Floro Allado and alleged lawless elements led by a certain Commander Faron.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/04 November) — Mining giant Xstrata Queensland Limited (Xstrata Copper) has decided to solely finance a US$30-million definitive feasibility study of a huge copper and gold venture straddling three Mindanao provinces, Tony Robbins, Indophil Resources NL managing director, announced on Wednesday.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 November) — A member of the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front peace panel asked a conference on ancestral domain here to
give them more attention amid a two-month old impasse in the peace
negotiations between the government and the rebels.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 November) — Opposition lawyer Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III, said Friday there is no time for a "Plan B" or the plan to convene both houses of Congress into a Constituent Assembly to change the 1987 Constitution barely seven months before the mid-term elections next year.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/04 November) — Two persons died in a stabbing incident on All Saints' Day in Tacurong City.

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/2 Nov) — Police operatives supposedly looking for the Mindanao spokesman of the National Democratic Front raided Wednesday evening the convent of Catholic nuns belonging to the Contemplatives of the Good Shepherd (CGS) in Barangay Tiniwisan here.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/2 Nov) — Overwhelmed with the support extended by the predominantly Christian populace to their Eid'l Fitr celebrations last week, hundreds of Muslims turned up at various cemeteries here Wednesday morning to help ensure a peaceful and secure All Saints Day and All Souls Day celebrations.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/2 Nov) — The Indonesian ambassador to the Organization Islamic Conference (OIC), representatives from the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and leaders of stakeholders to peace in Mindanao are expected to attend a forum on Nov. 3-4 on the peace talks' ancestral domain issue at the Marco Polo Hotel here.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/2 Nov) — Four Moro villagers were killed while five others were wounded this afternoon in what could be a clash or simply a frantic mayor and his armed militia open firing on a truck which they thought was filled with lawless elements out to attack his town in North Cotabato.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/2 Nov0 — The government is planning to mainstream the distribution of various quality generic drugs in the country within the next four years as safety net to the increasing prices of branded medicines and drugs.

TULUNAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/2 Nov) — Some 30 suspected New Peoples Army (NPA) rebels raided and overran an Army detachment in Barangay Bituan of this town around 8 a.m. today.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/2 Nov) — The Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) has extended the deadline of the filing of application requirements for the December 2006 Nursing Licensure Examinations (NLE) from Nov. 7 to Nov. 10, thanks to the intervention of the Office of the Ombudsman and help extended by the city government.

ALABEL, Sarangani (MindaNews/2 Nov) — Sarangani Gov. Miguel Rene Dominguez has lamented on news reports on the recent bombings in Mindanao, asserting that the national media only buy and magnify negative incidents in the island.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/1 Nov) — There is a broader support for peace in Mindanao, said a group of grassroots organizations who went on a peace mission to Manila last week.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/1 Nov) — A priest here is appealing for his parishioners to pray for the repose of the souls of those who died in the Oct. 28 vehicular accident that killed 18 people and injured 11 others.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews) – Stricter implementation of liquor, smoking and gambling bans in cemeteries here the past three years has led to an observable drop in the number of persons visiting the graves of their departed relatives on All Saints and All Souls days.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/31 October) — Both public and private cemeteries here have become a haven for new, albeit seasonal, entrepreneurial ventures offering meals, cold soft drinks, fruits, cellular phone loads. Aside from the usual candles and flowers, of course.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/31 October) — The provincial government of South Cotabato has intensified its monitoring of the water level of Lake Holon (formerly Maughan) in T’boli town due to the reported significant changes of its water level. 

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/31 October) — North Cotabato Governor Emmanuel Piñol has asked the  Sangguniang Panlalawigan to use the calamity fund to assist victims of the tragic vehicular accident in Sitio Patulangon, Malasila, Makilala last October 28.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/31 October) — Twenty  high school teachers here have been given permanent teaching positions after passing rigid screening and performance evaluation.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY  (MindaNews/31 October) — The provincial government of South Cotabato is pushing for the creation its own sports council to enhance sports development initiatives of the local government and the private sector.

DAVAO CITY  (MindaNews/30 October) – Another two weeks. The government peace panel has once again asked for an extension, from October 1 to November 15, within which to present its proposal on how to break the impasse in  the talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 October) — Armed skirmishes in some towns in Maguindanao will not affect the peace negotiations between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as these are just isolated incidents, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza said.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 October) — The National Bureau of Investigation seized in a raid here last Friday, a total of US $658,000 (P33.8 million) worth of counterfeit dollar bills suspected to be have been printed in a small printing press here, officials of the NBI and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas told reporters Monday.

SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao (MindaNews/30 October) — US-owned Mirant Philippines Corp. has released the $2 million (P100 million) it earlier pledged for  massive electrification project in far-flung villages in Mindanao, officials said.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 October) — Provincial governments that pursue reforms in revenue generation, expenditure planning and management, and service delivery may avail of up to P200 million in loans, Helena Habulan, director of the Department of Finance's Municipal Development Fund Office, said.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 October) — The observance of All Saints' and All Souls' Days here is expected to be orderly and solemn after Mayor Rodrigo Duterte declared the city will continue to ban liquors and loud celebrations in cemeteries.

MAKILALA, North Cotabato (MindaNews/29 October) — Three more victims were added to the list of fatalities in a road accident Saturday in Makilala, North Cotabato where a wayward dump truck rammed into at least 10 other vehicles.

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/28 October) — Liberal Party Secretary General and Bukidnon Rep. Nereus Acosta today said LP leaders in the Senate and the House of Representatives will definitely "turn Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) inside out and scrutinize it" amid allegations it would turn the Philippines into a new dumping ground for Japanese toxic waste materials.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 October) — The Cement Manufacturers' Association of the Philippines (CeMAP) has urged the Department of Trade and Industry to locate and to withdraw from buyers 30,000 bags of allegedly low quality Horse brand cement from China which DTI said were illegally released from a warehouse here.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/28 October) — The mother of a 23-year-old rape victim has appealed for sympathy from the police and village leaders instead of giving her "pain and injuries to her already wounded heart" by issuing false accusations against her daughter to the media.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/28 October) — Thirteen persons were killed and 14 others were seriously injured when a 10-wheeler dump truck rammed into at least 10 vehicles after losing its brake along the Makilala – Davao highway, around 3:30 p.m. today.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / October 27) – The Department of Health has conducted a study on the effects of chemicals used in aerial spraying on workers of banana plantations in Davao, a move that was long suggested by the antagonists in the controversial plan to abolish aerial spraying in plantations in the city’s outskirts.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / October 27) – From giving mock "Kalabasa Awards" to legislators here, a group pushing for a city ban on aerial spraying tried another protest stunt – improvised coffins for a banana company using aircrafts to spray fungicide chemicals.  

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / October 27) – The police office here filed criminal complaints against two of its officers and a public lawyer in the wake of a trafficking expose of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte earlier this month.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / October 27) – The radio station DXND, an AM station of the Oblates-ran Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation, won this year’s Golden Dove Awards in Culture and Arts on Radio.