MAGPET, North Cotabato (MindaNews/4 Oct) — This town is now joining the Information Age, thanks to donations from the National Computer Commission (NCC) and Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 October) – Zamboanga City increased its business permit collections by 300%; more firms are now securing business permits in Malaybalay City; and in Ozamiz, you can get your business permit in half a day instead of the usual three days.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/04 October) — A still unidentified gunman shot dead lawyer Arnel Datukon, executive officer of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Social Fund, at around 8 a.m. Wednesday along Quezon Ave. in Cotabato City.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 October) — The government reactivated over the weekend the Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA), the body that is supposed to focus on the “socio-economic catch-up plans” for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 October) — After the National Bureau of Investigation charged them with “reckless imprudence leading to homicide,” officials, teachers and students of the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) stand to face two more charges – administrative and civil – for the death of a 16-year old student-beauty contestant last July.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 October) — Councilors here used the regular session's privilege hour today to criticize groups for insulting them with a "Kalabasa (Squash) Award" last week.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/02 October) — The gold and copper minesite in Tampakan, South Cotabato has been confirmed to contain a world class, two-billion ton deposit, company officials announced on Monday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 October) — The city government will start building this month its P247-million urban drainage and flood control project in six major flood-prone areas, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/02 October) — Police and military authorities have conflicting theories as to the motive behind the recent blast in Kabacan in North Cotabato that injured six people, including a village official.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/02 October) — The Department of Trade and Industry in North Cotabato has set various activities for the month-long observance of the consumer’s welfare month celebration.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 October) — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has changed tack.
From using strongly worded calls to ban aerial spraying by banana plantations on the basis of precautionary principles, he is now seeking "hard evidence" first on allegations the practice causes health and environmental hazards.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/01 October) — The national government has yet to successfully work out the reentry of Philippine smoked tuna products in Japan nine years after a ban was imposed by Japanese health authorities, exporters here lamented.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/01 October) — Noting it was not possible that
those who took and passed the June nursing licensure examination in the Visayas and Mindanao benefited from the reported 'leaks' that marred the test, Senator Ralph Recto today said those nurses should not be required to take it again.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/01 October) — Reports saying the mayor allegedly involved in a drug delivery to Davao City was from North Cotabato are not true, Govermor Emmanuel Piñol said in a statement.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 September) — Fifty-two hopefuls have applied as judges for seven vacant Regional Trial Court branches across Mindanao, the
Judicial and Bar Council announced in a statement on Sept. 26.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 September) — Armed men believed to be members of the New People's Army operating in Makilala town in North Cotabato on
Friday burned a passenger bus owned by the Weena Bus Company.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 September) — Time stops for no one and life is for living. There is little sense in trying to freeze the moment, because you know it can't be done. That's why I almost never stop to have my picture taken. I only pose to be polite, and never if I can help it.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 September) — Extortion could be the motive
behind the grenade throwing this morning at a mobile phone store here, the
city police said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 Sept) — Women law enforcers are not spared from sexual harassment or physical abuse by their partners, superiors and colleagues. Around 16 percent or 560 out of 3,500 policewomen surveyed in 2005 by the Philippine National Police (PNP) reported having been sexually harassed by their partners and about the same number experienced physical beating by their husbands or partners, Supt. Eldebrande Osano, Philippine National Police director for Family, Juvenile, and Gender Division told more than 500 policewomen during the 4 th Biennial Summit on Women in Policing Thursday.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / September 29) –Six persons, including a village official, were wounded in an explosion Thursday night inside the state-owned University of Southern Mindanao in Kabacan, North Cotabato.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/Sept 29) – University of Mindanao Wildcats trounced Holy Cross of Davao College Crusaders, 60 – 41 and nail a slot in the Visayas-Mindanao Champions League elimination.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 September) — The city government here is convening around 140 tribal leaders from its five major indigenous groups to draw out issues, concerns and their support for environmental protection, Councilor Leo Avila, chair of the City Council’s Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, said.
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/28 September) – When the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) started talking peace with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) on January 7, 1997, the former pushed for a single-point agenda for the peace negotiations, i. e., “How to solve the ‘Bangsamoro Problem’."
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 Sept) – The Suara Bangsamoro party list has urged the government to stop its military offensives in Sulu province during the month-long Ramadhan.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/Sept 27)–Jun-Jun Grandeza and Sr. Supt. Jaime Morente ruled shared their respective class in the 5th Mindanao Cavaliers Cup Invitational Golf Tournament at the Lanang Golf and Country Club here.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/26 Sep) — Warning to all who want to bring seeds, seedlings and other planting materials to the province of Bukidnon.
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed on second reading this month an ordinance regulating the entry of these items to the province “to protect the province's agriculture economy from threats of virulent plant pests and diseases."
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/26 Sep) — The provincial government of South Cotabato will conduct another auction sale next month for all real properties with recorded tax delinquencies.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/26 Sep) — The Regional Development Council (RDC) of Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao urged the Air Transportation Office (ATO) to immediately release the approved P3.8 million funding for the upgrading of the city airport’s electrical facilities.
NEW YORK (MindaNews/26 September) — It is a good time to be in New York. Since I arrived here last week, the weather has been really nice: neither too hot nor too cold. It's like being in Baguio during sunny days this time of the year, too. The late summer flowers in the parks are still in bloom and the trees stand tall with thick foliage.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 Sep) — Forty days after his wife was hacked to death by his own sister-in-law, 39-year-old Reynaldo “Mike” Jickain still could not find justice. He blamed the police for not acting on his case.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/26 Sep) — North Cotabato Gov. Emmanuel F. Piñol ordered Monday the extension of legal assistance to couple Miraluna and Noel in their pursuit of justice for their 12-year-old daughter who was raped and murdered at Barangay Marbel, Matalam last Sept. 17.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/26 Sep) — After a six-month extension in the construction, the multimillion-peso transport terminal here is set to be inaugurated next month, just in time for the celebration of the city’s Fifth Timpupo Fruit Festival.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/Sept. 26)—The North Cotabato Braves takes on the comebacking Tribu Sugbu on Saturday at the provincial gymnasium, Amas, Kidapawan City in the on-going Spring Cooking Oil-National Basketball Conference National Cup.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/25 Sep) — An “amicable settlement” was reached today between relatives of a 15-year-old Maguindanaon girl who was gang-raped last week, and the three suspects, all of them members of the Army’s 40th Infantry Battalion assigned in a village in Carmen, North Cotabato.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/25 Sep) — The police here filed today murder complaints against the two suspected killers of Anton Durana, nutrition and health teacher at the Finishing Arts and Career Enterprising School (FACES) who was shot dead last Tuesday inside a music bar.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/25 Sep) — The Philippine National Oil Company Energy Development Corporation (PNOC-EDC) pledged to release P50.2 million next year the for rural electrification project in the province of North Cotabato.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 September)– Labor Secretary Arturo Brion on Friday assumed jurisdiction over the labor dispute between fruit giant Dole Philippines Inc. and the Asosasyon sa mga Mamumuo sa Dole Alang sa Kalinaw Demokratikong Nasud- National Federation of Labor Unions- Kilusang Mayo Uno (Amado Kadena-Naflu-KMU) after the union rejected on Thursday the company's "improved offer."
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 September) — Army bomb experts here successfully detonated a hand grenade found Sunday morning in the parade ground of the state-owned University of Southern Mindanao in Kabacan, North Cotabato.
DAVAO CITY ( MindaNews/Sept 23) – Six top collegiate teams will vie for the right to represent Mindanao in the elimination games for the 2006 Champions League which opens on Monday at the Davao City Recreation Center.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/23 September) – The Army’s 602nd Infantry Brigade commander, Col. Ruperto Pabustan, has ordered an immediate investigation on the alleged involvement of three Army personnel in a gang rape that took place in Carmen North Cotabato last Wednesday.
POLOMOLOK, South Cotabato (MindaNews/23 Sept) – US Ambassador Kristie Kenney personally turned over Friday a modern computer laboratory package to the Nicolas Barreras National High School (NBNHS) in Barangay Glamang here as part of the US government-funded computer literacy program for peace and development communities in Mindanao.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/23 September) — Police authorities in Matalam in North Cotabato arrested on Thursday a 17-year old farmer accused of raping and killing a 12-year old girl in a remote village.
POLOMOLOK, South Cotabato (MindaNews/22 September) — Multinational Dole Philippines’ (Dolefil) 4,700-strong union workers are poised to go on strike anytime now after rejecting anew on Thursday the company’s last-minute settlement offer to break the impasse in their collective bargaining negotiations.
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/22 September) — I am deeply saddened and disturbed by the issue raised on the lecture of the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, and I wish to be a voice of many silent Christians and Muslims who follow this issue with great concern.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 Sept) — The continuing flight of doctors and nurses for overseas work in the midst of a health crisis in the country is exacerbating discrimination against women, Lyda Canson, executive director of the Bathaluman Crisis Center, said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 Sept) — At least 450 students of a rural public high school in Polomolok town in South Cotabato will soon add google, yahoo and even wikipedia to their vocabulary following their inclusion as beneficiaries of the Computer Literacy and Internet Connection (CLIC) program.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/22 Sept) — Construction workers unearthed a World War II explosive in Bernardo’s compound along Daang Maharlika national highway last Wednesday.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/21 Sept) — The provincial government of South Cotabato has launched a program for the replication of the Food Always in the Home (Faith) technology in every household in the province, to ensure residents can easily access safe and nutritious food.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/21 September) — Health officials here have ordered a crackdown on imported food products from China after one of the products downed at least 31 pupils of an elementary school here Wednesday.
LAKE SEBU, South Cotabato (MindaNews/21 Sept) – Indigenous peoples and settlers are separately strengthening their respective groups to oppose the ongoing coal exploration projects in remote Barangay Ned here.
