DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/August 25) – Filipino-owned petroleum distributor, Flying V, said it was optimistic that Congress would soon pass the bill on the use of biodiesel and help speed up the use of the renewable and environmentally-clean source of energy.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/August 25) – Two passengers died on the spot and 13 others were hurt when a Rural Transit of Mindanao Inc. (RTMI) bus from Cagayan de Oro City fell into a highway canal in Calinan early Friday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 August) — The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
(ARMM) leads some 70 teams nationwide that will compete in the upcoming 2006
National Inter-Cities and Municipalities Chess Team Championships slated
September 14 to 17 at Gaisano Mall of Davao here.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 August) — The tandem of Albert John Baniego and
Amy Grace Gido ruled the college division of the Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte-
Kadayawan Festival Dancesports Competition, Wednesday afternoon, at the
Gaisano Mall of Davao here.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 August) — The government should fulfill its promise to put up next year a satellite office of the Intellectual PropertyOffice (IPO) here to help Mindanawon inventors and back it up with a patentresearch facility and support services, an official of the MindanaoInventors Federation Inc. said.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/24 August) — South Cotabato’s image as a largely “opposition country” might have been shattered a bit with Second District Rep. Arthur Pingoy’s decision to vote in favor of House Justice Committee report recommending the dismissal of the second impeachment case against President Arroyo.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 August) — The public hearing Wednesday afternoon
on a proposed ordinance banning the use of aerial spray by agricultural
plantations here turned out to be a showdown of sorts between experts,
alleged victims, supporters and opponents of the proposal.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 August) — Regional police Intelligence
operatives arrested two suspected car thieves while conducting highway
patrol operations on Sunday along the highway in Barangay Inanama,
Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat. Chief Inspector Ruel Berango, Administrative Officer of the Police Regional Office in Region 12, identified the suspects as Mods Sasa Amil and Datu Manot Sangutin, both residents of Barangay Pimbalayan in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 August) – An official at the National Food
Authority brushed aside speculations that the price of palay offered by
commercial traders might drop by as much as P5 per kilo by September during
which palay harvests are expected to peak. NFA regional director Ernesto Macasinag assured that the farm gate price of palay will drop by “only one peso per kilo” in the commercial market.
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/24 August) – Some 160,000 persons in the Caraga
Region will join the nationwide tree planting activity on Friday dubbed
Green Philippine Highways and organized by the Department of Environment and
Natural Resources. Benjamin T. Tumaliuan, DENR regional executive director, said the participants will form a “human chain” along the both sides of the highways
from Barangay Lipata in Surigao City down to Alegria town in Surigao del
Norte, and RTR town in Agusan del Norte to Barangay de Oro in Butuan City to
Trento town in Agusan del Sur.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/23 Aug) — Many Filipino parents want their children to speak the English language in that they enroll them in exclusive schools. Without them knowing it, they have become easy preys of the highly commercialized Philippine educational system. But becoming themselves gullible to the demands of these exclusive schools they do not mind. It’s because they feel a certain degree of pride seeing and hearing their kids speaking like birds! In Cagayan de Oro City where I live, there are a number of exclusive pre-schools run either by religious groups or enterprising educators.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (Mindanews/23 Aug) — Hundreds of residents in a remote village in Matalam town in North Cotabato evacuated to safer grounds after warring armed groups exchanged fires at the boundary of Sitio Panyalum and Sitio Mampurang in Barangay Taguranao, last Friday. Reports said the trouble in the area erupted with the entry of five workers from AJMR Holdings Corp., a banana plantation company, came to inspect the land for possible development.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/23 Aug) — Director General Oscar C. Calderon of the Philippine National Police (PNP) will be the guest of honor and speaker in the Cotabato Media Summit on August 26 here in the wake of unmitigated killings of journalists. The new PNP chief is expected to present new solutions in solving attacks against Filipino journalists, particularly those practicing in the provinces.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 August) – The Tuna Congress next week, the eighth since the annual event for the P18-billion industry started, will focus on quality, safety and sustainability strategies.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/22 August) — The annual celebration of Timpupo Fetival has been moved from this month to October 9 to 15 due to lack of fruits.
City administrator Rodolfo Cabiles Jr. told DXND Radio for Peace that fruit growers in various parts of this city have complained about the scarcity of fruits because of the erratic weather condition that hit the province of North Cotabato.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 August) — Veteran Bobby Wee won the Division A title of the 2006 Mayor's Cup Golf Tournament, Sunday, at the scenic Apo Golf and Country Club here.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 August) — Basilan Bishop Martin Jumoad has appealed to the Bishops-Ulama Conference to help facilitate with officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) the release of long-delayed teachers’ salaries.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 August) – The Philippine Coast Guard has the capability to respond to maritime accidents around Mindanao but not to major oil spills of the Guimaras-type, the coast guard's top official for Southeastern Mindanao said.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/21 August) — Three members of a syndicate selling fake gold bars were arrested in a buy-bust operation conducted by the Criminal Investigation Detection Group (CIDG) in Arakan, North Cotabato last Sunday.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/21 Aug) — The town of M’lang in North Cotabato is “last two-free,” Inspection Winston Saniel, the new police chief, said.
But text messages reaching DXND Radio for Peace showed “last two” ushers continue to roam around collecting bets.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 August)– Catholic and Protestant bishops and ulama from Mindanao and Indonesia gathered at the Isla Parilla in Alabel, Sarangani on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss what they can do together for peace.
MAGPET, North Cotabato (MindaNews/20 August) – Blame it on erratic weather conditions that hit Southwestern Mindanao early this year, officials said when asked to comment on the relative scarcity of exotic fruits like lanzones, rambutan, marang, mangosteen and durian which flooded the region and neighboring areas from July to August in previous years.
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/20 August) — Thirty years since "a group of people," in the words of the American news reporter John Nance, "walked less than 20 miles from their home in a Philippine rain-forest and traveled through 50,000 years of cultural and technological time", the debate on whether the Tasaday were truly from the Stone Age or not continues to rage in the country's anthropological circle.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 August) – A Moro businessman coincided the opening of his two-storey mall here with the holding of the annual Kadayawan Festival.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / August 18) — Mindanao's government and civic groups should begin planning on how to manage water resource to prevent conflicts arising from it, a Unesco hydrology official said on Thursday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/August 18) – The proposed division of the Southern Command to fine-tune government’s counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism programs in Mindanao, will be implemented within this month, the Armed Forces Chief of Staff said Friday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/August 18) – Armed Forces Chief, Lt. Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, assured the elite but controversial Marines and Scout Rangers that their current formation would not be downsized or disbanded.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / August 18)– The cooperative of market vendors of Kidapawan has received the Japan-funded storage facility and training center, part of a poverty-reduction package for women vendors here.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/August 18) — The Ozamiz City Cotta routed Montana Pawnshop-Digos City, 100-74 to win the 2006 Mayor Rodrigo Duterte Kadayawan festival Battle of Champions title, Thursday night at the Davao City Recreation Center here.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/Aug. 18)–Some eighty-eight boxers from 13 participating teams will see action in the Guv for Gold amateur boxing championships in this city on Aug. 20-24.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (Aug 17) – The commander of the Army in President Quirino in Sultan Kudarat has vowed to “win hearts and minds” of the people, the rebels, in particular, in his area of jurisdiction so that “peace can reign in this part of Mindanao.” Lt. Col. Paul Atal, commander of the 75th Infantry Battalion assigned in Barangay Tual, President Quirino, issued the statement four days after two alleged commanders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) — their men, included – surrendered to the Army.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/17 August) – The Regional Development Council (RDC) here has agreed to jointly exert efforts to reach out to “dissident groups” in the area and at the same time provide the necessary assistance to government security forces. Koronadal Mayor Fernando Miguel, RDC chair for Region 12 (Southwestern Mindanao), said they are also appealing to “groups bearing grudges against our government to pursue their cause through peaceful means and not through violence or terrorism.”
KAPATAGAN, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/17 Aug) — The Iligan-Aurora
highway, particularly the part in Kauswagan devastated by flashfloods
a few days ago, is now open to traffic, thanks to clearing operations
by concerned agencies. But commuters are still advised to take extra precautions when driving through the slippery mud that still remain in some parts of the
highway.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 August) — I'm more than halfway reading through Sen. Nene Pimentel's "Martial Law in the Philippines: My Story." In the book that was launched in June, the senator from Cagayan de Oro tells about how martial law changed his life and about all the difficulties he and his family had to endure because of Ferdinand Marcos's authoritarian rule. He gave the nation's sufferings during martial law a human face. Sen. Joker Arroyo puts it this way: Pimentel became "the poster boy of defiance to dictatorship." And in the foreword, former president Cory Aquino says Nene Pimentel, at that time, became a "household name synonymous with the national cry for freedom, justice and democracy."
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 August) – "You know what the ironic thing about working overseas is? You actually get to be more patriotic."
"Why is that?"
"I never thought about how I felt about our country and our people. Not like you. All these years, I feared you'd someday worry yourself sick seeking answers to matters of fact."
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 August) — An international mining company based in the United Kingdom has signed an option agreement to acquire 95% shares of a coal development project in the hinterlands of South Cotabato. Crew Gold Corp. signed the option agreement recently with Daguma Agro Minerals, Inc. through its 100%-owned subsidiary Crew Minerals AS. The project, located in Lake Sebu town, is opposed by residents of Barangay Ned, a village affected by the venture, as reflected in a manifesto.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/August 16-Some P100,000 in total cash prizes will be at stake when the 21st Kadayawan sa Dabaw 2006 Darts Championship opens on August 18 at the Pantawan Hall of Casino Filipino, Grand Regal Hotel here.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/16 August) — Religious leaders and other stakeholders in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have approved the halal certification standards that will be observed in the region as it strives to penetrate the $150 billion global market for halal products.
KAPATAGAN, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/16 August) — A rescue team recovered Tuesday the body of a three-year old boy who was reported missing at the height of the flashflood in Lapinig, Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/16 August) – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Region1-10 has asked the Regional Development Council to endorse its proposal for the proclamation of Mount Inayawan Range in Nunungan, Lanao del Norte as a protected area in the category of natural park.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/16 August) — The city government of Kidapawan has offered P100,000 reward for anyone who can pinpoint the two suspects responsible for last week’s twin bombings here.
MANOLO FORTICH, Bukidnon (tidbits@delmonte/16 August) — Some 40 food service partners of Del Monte Philippines, Inc. and members of the Cagayan de Oro Hotel and Restaurant Assoc. (COHARA) joined the “1st Del Monte Food Service Fun Golf Tournament 2006” held at the Del Monte golf course, Aug. 16, in Cawayanon, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon.
KAPATAGAN, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/15 Aug) — The flashflood that hit this town dawn on Monday damaged P35.7-million worth of rice crops and marine culture products, according to municipal agriculture officer Frank Bihod.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/15 Aug) — South Cotabato Rep. Arthur Pingoy Jr. today admitted that he has not yet made up his mind on whether to endorse or not the new impeachment case against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/15 Aug) — The Regional Cooperative Development Council (RCDC) in Region 12 has approved the implementation of at least three major agriculture and fishery-based programs in Sultan Kudarat province in a bid to boost the development of the area’s agribusiness sector.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 Aug) — A member of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) was wounded in a 30-minute gunfight against communist guerillas in a remote village in Magpet, a hinterland town in North Cotabato, around 3 p.m. Sunday, belated police reports said.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 Aug) — Police operatives nabbed in General Santos City last Monday a suspected bigtime robber operating in Metro Manila.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/August 15) — Sta.Ana National High School and Calinan Central Elem.School prevailed in the sipa and sepak takraw events of the 2006 Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte-Kadayawan Sports Festival, Monday, at the City Hall Drive in this city.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/August 15 ) — General Santos City’s Sheider Nebato tallied 4.5 points to win the boy's 16 under title of the 2006 Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte-Kadayawan Sports Festival, Sunday, at the Gaisano Mall of Davao here.
KAPATAGAN, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/14 Aug) — Landslides triggered by last weekend's heavy rains killed at least six people, buried eight villages in Lanao del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur, and swept a bus.
