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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 May) – The Tuesday night bombing on Tower 25 in Ramain, Lanao del Sur will not hamper the elections in Mindanao on May 9 as power supply has remained to be sufficient even up to three days after the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 14 April) – An official of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) has asked the electric cooperatives in Mindanao to review their power portfolios to prevent overcontracting once the 540 MW coal-fired power plant of GNPower Kauswagan Ltd. Co. will
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 Apr) – The 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant of Therma South Inc. (TSI), a subsidiary of Aboitiz Power, in Brgy. Binugao, Toril is still taking “baby steps” before it can smoothly provide an unimpeded supply of power to the Mindanao grid,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 March) – The Department of Public Works and Highway (DPWH) central office in Manila will use as criteria for project identification the five development corridors that will strategically connect the key areas of production in Mindanao to
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 07 February) — A top official of the National Transportation Corporation (Transco) said the family who owns the lot where the bombed Tower 25 of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) stood is asking the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 Jan) – Mindanao will get P380 billion out of the P3.002 trillion approved national budget for 2016, an official of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) said. Mindanao’s share this year is 12.7 percent of the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 Jan) – There is no direct link between the perpetrators behind the Christmas eve bombing of Tower 25 of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in Lanao del Sur and the family who
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 January) – Businesses in Mindanao must take advantage of opportunities offered by the island’s proximity to its Southeast Asian neighbors, better infrastructure and policy support, an official of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) said Sunday. In a
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 Nov) – A new power utilization scheme that will be more dependent on coal and diesel instead of the usual hydroelectric plants for Mindanao is now in the final stage of study before the Department
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 November) – Mindanao’s eight river basin organizations will be strengthened in the next four years for their transition into a council with a mandate to craft policies, officials of the Mindanao Development Authority said Thursday. Joan Barrera,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 Aug) – An executive of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Davao said the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) will attract more investors to come to Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). In
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 31 July) – Some P500 million will be poured in Mindanao next year to increase by two-folds the number of cacao trees planted through the Double-Up Program. In an interview Friday, Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) executive
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 February)–In a bid to bring in more foreign investors here, the Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (DCCCII) will be participating in a major trade fair in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the end
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 Feb) — “Treevolution: Greening MindaNow” made it to Guinness The Guinness World Record (GWR) announced that Mindanao has the “most trees planted simultaneously in multiple locations” during the conduct of the one-day tree planting activity dubbed “Treevolution: Greening
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 5 November) – The proposed biggest solar power plant project in the Philippines, which will be located in Surallah, South Cotabato, has already acquired two major government clearances as well as the funding commitment to jumpstart
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 November)–A Mindanao-based company engaged in oil palm growing is targeting to develop at least 45,000 hectares of land in two provinces in the island within the next five years. Manuel Boniao, chairman of Bali Oil Palm Produce
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 October) — The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) apologized to volunteers who were reportedly injured in last week’s island-wide tree planting activity dubbed TreeVolution. The apology came after stories came out in social media that some participants fainted
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 September) — The Department of Environment and Resources (DENR) in partnership with Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) initiated a tree-planting activity dubbed Treevolution, where .6 million trees are supposed to be planted in Mindanao’ six regions from 8:30
Luwalhati Antonino, chair of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) meets with Paul Dominguez, board vice-chair of the Philippine Busines s for Social Progress (PBSP) during a meeting Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at the MinDA office in Davao City to
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 4 Aug) – In an effort to instill a “massive consciousness” of tree growing among the people, the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), with various government agencies, will be holding a Mindanao-wide tree planting project next month
DAVAO CITY (May 30, 2014) – Mindanao’s state universities and colleges are stepping up efforts in making the island-region and its people more adaptable to climate change by integrating disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) as well as climate change
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 March) — DYSFUNCTION — A few days ago, I sat in a stakeholders’ forum called by the Mindanao Business Council to look into the power situation in Mindanao. I was shocked to know that the problem is
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/23 March) – Officials from the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) are meeting Monday morning with local officials and the business sector here to discuss the problems brought about by the delayed construction
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/28 May) — Turning Mindanao into an “oil palm hub” poses a threat to the coconut industry, a research institution said in a statement Monday. The Davao City-based Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao (AFRIM) cited a plan
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 6 May) – The daily rotating outages here and parts of nearby South Cotabato and Sarangani provinces are now down just two hours as the area’s power supplies continue to stabilize in the last three
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/ 23 December)—Typhoon “Pablo” would exact an estimated value losses of P9.6 billion for 2013 in areas hardest hit by the disaster, according to the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), which is appealing for an integrated approach to rebuild
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/01 August) – Malacanang has abolished the Arroyo-created Presidential Task Force on Mindanao River Basin Rehabilitation and Development (PTFMRBRD) “as part of the rationalization and streamlining of the government bureaucracy” and transferred its functions to “regular national government
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 Jan) – Mindanao is getting 24 percent of the country’s total infrastructure budget this year, proof enough that the campaign for increased share for Mindanao in the national budget has been working, Mindanao Secretary Luwalhati Antonino said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 August) — Mindanao’s total trade performance in the first quarter of this year amounted to $1.09 billion or an increase of 41.26 percent compared to $769 million for the same period last year, a report from the
