DAVAO CITY  (MindaNews/08 August) —  After a month-long respite, the sound of gunfire resumed Tuesday in Mamasapano, Maguindanao but the Joint Ceasefire Committee of the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF),  the International Monitoring Team and the Bantay Ceasefire managed to have the CVOs and the MILF stop firing.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/08 August) — Tuna industry players have expressed fears that chances to further penetrate the European Union market are likely to hit a snag after the Codex Alimentarius dropped lead content of fish from its agenda.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 August) — Breastfeeding is still the best.
The government will start banning promotions and advertisements of formula milk by January 2007, according to the revised implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Milk Code, Vicenta Borja, coordinator of DOH's National Infant and Young Child feeding Center, said.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/07 August) —The National Transmission Corporation (Transco) has vowed to fast track the development of more transmission lines from various power sources in northern Mindanao to this city and the neighboring areas to ensure a stable power supply.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 August) — Barangay Tanods (village watchmen) will play a more active role in the government’s anti-insurgency campaign and, where necessary, will even be armed, Local Governments Undersecretary Melchor Rosales said.
Rosales said arming the barangay tanods will be allowed in “selective and controlled” areas, as recommended by the peace and order council.

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/06 August) – The City Council on Wednesday granted
Mayor Fernando Miguel the authority to purchase a lot where the regional offices of national line agencies will be built.

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/05 August) – Reacting to the fresh wave of military offensive in Sulu against suspected elements of the Jemaah Islamiyah, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr. today challenged military authorities to present “credible proof” that the Indonesian-based group was in the island province and not make the alleged presence of the Indonesian-based group an excuse for “continued warfare in Mindanao.”

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 August) – They arrested him without warrant Thursday night allegedly because he was a “bombmaking expert” but freed him to the custody of his lawyer Friday night with this condition: “to be produced if further needed.”

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 August) – Gabriela-Davao City has expressed dismay over the court’s junking of a sexual harassment case filed by a public school teacher against her former thesis adviser.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 4 August) – Mindanao's six regional development councils have come up with around P215 billion worth of projects for Mindanao, according to a presentation Friday by Misamis Occidental Gov. Loreto Leo Ocampo on the “'Mindanao super region.”
TheP214.690 billion worth of projects will become the government's investment program for Mindanao from 2007-2010, Ocampo told MindaNews.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews /August 3) – The vast number of unemployed Moro residents in the country will have new opportunities at employment once giant food companies adapt the Muslims’ halal practices in food production.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/3 Aug) — Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ordered stricter rules on buying and selling high-powered guns to "reasonably limit" ownership and bring within "acceptable level" the number of gun holders in the city. 

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/3 Aug) — A group of Korean investors are planning to put up a 100-door apartment in the uptown area of this city as more and more of their nationals are coming over to settle for good. Mayor Vicente Y. Emano, as quoted by the Philippine Information Agency, said he is scheduled to meet with the 70 Korean investors to discuss the planned apartment. Emano said that the Korean businessmen are spending billions of pesos for their real estate projects, like the construction of luxurious apartments and villas near the Korean and Filipino-owned Hotel Koresco at the Pueblo de Oro Township.

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/3 Aug) — This city has become the recipient of a computer literacy program jointly undertaken by the local government unit, the Department of Social Welfare and Development, and a Canadian non-governmental organization. The program includes the donation of 15 computers intended mainly for out of school youths and those with disabilities, according to the Philippine Information Agency. “The government’s tie-up with international partners who help the less privileged has in a way helped our city become one of the recipients, and we are fortunate enough to have been installed with an Information Technology Computer Literacy Center,” said Mayor Lawrence Ll. Cruz. Highlighting the inauguration was the signing of a memorandum of agreement of the three-year project. The City Social Welfare and Development (CSWD) Office is doing the work for the LGU. The Canadian group helping out is the Engineers Without Borders-Sharing Community Access Locally and Abroad (EWB-SCALA).

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/2 Aug) — Sixteen elementary schools and four high schools in Southeastern Mindanao are piloting a first of a kind curriculum specially developed for indigenous peoples, said Norma Gonos, executive director of the Institute for Indigenous Peoples Education (IIPE). 

ALABEL, Sarangani (MindaNews/2 Aug) — The Lumad representative to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) negotiating panel claimed that those who attended the two-day Indigenous People's Summit in Bukidnon last July 23 to 24 did not represent the entire Lumads of Mindanao. He said he believes "the government was behind the said gathering."

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/2 Aug) — The provincial government of South Cotabato plans to institutionalize the disaster management councils of the province's 189 barangays in a bid to further strengthen its disaster response and mitigation systems.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (Mindaews/2 Aug) — Cebu Pacific is eyeing more expansion in Region 12 (Southwestern Mindanao) after it opened its Cotabato City-Manila flight three weeks ago. 

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/2 Aug) — At least 30 families were rendered homeless when a flashflood hit 12 barangays of Balingasag and Lagonglong towns in Misamis Oriental early dawn Wednesday, according to Gov. Oscar Moreno.

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/2 Aug) — Government-owned marketing firm National Agribusiness Corporation (Nabcor) is planning to establish a modern corn post harvest processing and trading facility in South Cotabato in a bid to help improve the production and marketing of corn products in the area.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 August) —  The ceasefire committees of the government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have ordered a probe on the alleged takeover by the MILF of the base camp and minesite of a chromite mining firm in Banay-banay, Davao Oriental on July 21.09:20:50

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNew/01 August)  – Mayor Lawrence Cruz with meet with Moro leader Abulkhayr Alonto in Cagayan de Oro City on Wednesday (August 2) to discuss what can be done to resolve the conflict that has displaced some 205 Higaonon families  from a remote barangay in the city since the last week of June.

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/01 August) – Body parts of a purok vice president and a security guard were found in a vacant lot in Barangay Sugud, Sultan Naga Dimaporo (SND) in Lanao del Norte near the boundary of Tukuran in Zamboanga del Sur last Monday.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/31 July) — Soon, they can fight for their ancestral domain with lawyers from their own tribe.
The Talaandig tribe in Lantapan, Bukidnon has sent two of its sons to Law school at Xavier University in neighboring Cagayan de Oro City. They are the first Talaandig law students.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/31 July) — Students who want to take the exam for admission into the University of the Philippines (UP) but did not meet the July 15 deadline, have up to Friday, August 4, to submit requirements.

COTABATO CITY  (MindaNews/31 July) — He is among those “wanted” for the June 23 bombing incident in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao that killed four of  Governor Andal Ampatuan’s men. He denied having anything to do with the bombing in a radio interview on July 5. Hours later, his wife was gunned down in the city’s downtown area. 

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 July) — From August to December this year, more than 200 volunteer teachers in North Cotabato will receive P3,000 or an increase of P1,500 in monthly honorarium.

KIDAPAWAN CITY—Five persons were reported to have died from dengue while 380 others were treated at the provincial hospital in the first two quarters this year but the assistant provincial health office said there is no outbreak of the disease.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / July 28) — The University of Southeastern Philippines (USeP) is ready to face charges for the death of a 16-year old student who caught fire onstage during a campus beauty pageant on July 20, USeP president Julieta Ortiz told a press conference Friday. 

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / July 28) – A village chairperson in Carmen, North Cotabato escaped death Thursday when an assassin’s bullet wounded him on his head but not fatally.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 July) – A monthly newspaper supplement focusing on the Moro will be launched Friday.
"The Moro Times,” a collaboration of Manila Times and the Philippine Council for Islamic and Democracy  will devote six pages to “foster better understanding between Muslims and Christians,” PCID chair and editor-in-chief Amina Rasul-Bernardo, wrote.