DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 July)– At least a dozen Cabinet secretaries and business tycoons will be the key speakers during the 22nd Mindanao Business Conference (MinBizCon) that will have President Benigno Aquino III as the major guest. This year’s theme is
n de oSenator Aquilino Martin “Koko” Pimentel III delivers a speech at the Freedom Kiosk in Divisoria, Cagayan de Oro City last Sunday June 20 while his father, former Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. ( seated, left) listens. The younger Pimentel
BARCELONA, Spain (MindaNews/17 June) — Dealing with the past is now one of the big challenges for the Philippines in its transition from war to peace in Mindanao. Moro and mainstream narratives on the root causes and the consequences of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 June) – The number of women occupying top posts in Mindanao has increased from only 10 women governors, city mayors and representatives in the post-EDSA elections of 1987 and 1988 to 34 elected for the 2013-2016 term
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/31 May) — There has been a lot of buzz lately on palm oil in the local press. The Davao City Agriculturist Office announcing the coming in of South Korean investors interested in palm oil. The Mindanao Development
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 February) — The two-day Philippine Development Forum (PDF) that started Monday morning s focusing on Mindanao development as government sees the signing of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) as a step forward to peace and prosperity
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 Feb) — The Philippines is no longer the “sick man of Asia” but “Asia’s rising tiger… President Aquino has proven that good governance is possible,” Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said at the opening Monday morning of the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 October) — The Executive Order creating the 15-person Transition Commission (TransCom) that will prepare the groundwork for the Bangsamoro political entity by 2016 will be issued “in two to three weeks,” Secretary Teresita Quintos-Deles, Presidential Adviser on
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 September) — On September 21, 2001, exactly 30 years after then President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos issued the Proclamation that changed everyone’s lives, MindaNews launched “Turning Rage into Courage: Mindanao under martial law,” a book of essays written
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 September) — On September 21, 2001, exactly 30 years after then President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos issued the Proclamation that changed everyone’s lives, MindaNews launched “Turning Rage into Courage: Mindanao under martial law,” a book of essays written
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 September) — On September 21, 2001, exactly 30 years after then President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos issued the Proclamation that changed everyone’s lives, MindaNews launched “Turning Rage into Courage: Mindanao under martial law,” a book of essays written by Mindanawons from different generations, on their experiences under martial law. The book also included poems and songs of the period.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 September) — On September 21, 2001, exactly 30 years after then President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos issued the Proclamation that changed everyone’s lives, MindaNews launched “Turning Rage into Courage: Mindanao under martial law,” a book of essays written by Mindanawons from different generations, on their experiences under martial law. The book also included poems and songs of the period.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 July) — Tony La Viña of the AdMU School of Government said that the long-awaited, oft postponed E.O. on Mining would be a disappointment for everyone. He was incorrect. The miners are applauding. The E.O. is a
TANDAG CITY (MindaNews/28 April) – Government should rehabilitate instead of sell the Agus and Pulangui hydroelectric power plants, since it will be “more beneficial to every one of us in Mindanao,” Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel said. Pimentel told the Liga
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (MindaNews/02 April) – The Philippines could fuel Southeast Asia’s emergence as a “global mining force” within the next few years with an estimated US trillion worth of mineral resources yet to be tapped for development. In an
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.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/14 Jan) – The National Democratic Front of the Philippines has said that environmentally destructive operations of big business and multi-national corporations make them valid military targets of the New People’s Army in view of the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 January) — The December and January issues of OUR Mindanao, a monthly publication of the Mindanao News and Information Cooperative Center, (MNICC) were jointly launched Monday at the Tower Inn. “A fulfillment of a dream. To have
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 January) — Perhaps the most empowering exercise of an individual’s personhood is manifested in her ability to define her environment and influence, if not fully control, her experience of it. For so long, Mindanao has been defined
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 January) — As the old saying goes: Yes, Virginia, but who’s afraid of a coal-fired power plant in our midst? Before you answer, I strongly propose that there must be – pronto– a prudent, careful and deliberate
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/13 Dec) – Mindanao’s local government officials and legislators have urged the Aquino administration to adopt as one of its major agenda the newly-formulated Mindanao 2020 Peace and Development Framework as well as its inclusion to the
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/08 December) —The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) in Southwestern Mindanao has denied the application of 15 mining companies for failure to comply with the requirements, a top official said yesterday. The action was in line with the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/5 Aug) — Davao region ranks second, next Zamboanga peninsula, on economic performance in Mindanao for the year 2009 with an economic growth of 3.7 percent in 2008 to 5.4 percent last year, the National Statistical Board (NSCB)
