The claims of several local publications and some social media pages that the slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Barangay Mintal, known as Davao City’s “Little Tokyo,” in 2017 were false. Between July 8 to 11, SunStar Davao,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 July) – The Sangguniang Kabataan of Barangay Mintal expressed their condolences to the family of Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the people of Japan, on behalf of the barangay council and the people of Mintal,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 01 October) — Few Dabawenyos know that Davao City and Japan share a rich historical bond. More than a century ago, there was a thriving community of around 30,000 Japanese in Barangay Mintal, then the city’s
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 January) — Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be the second head of state to visit Davao City after 23 years, when Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad came for the launching of the East ASEAN
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 April) – The city council passed on second reading an ordinance granting Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte authority to sign for the city a proposed memorandum of understanding with the University of the Philippines for the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 April) – Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte urged the city council to revise an ordinance that initially authorized the City Mayor’s Office to sign for the city a 1997 memorandum of agreement with the University of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 Sept) – The city would prefer a more progressive approach in the construction of the 20-hectare sports complex facility at the University of the Philippines Mindanao in Mintal, according to the City Planning and Development
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 Jan) – The Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) has suspended the biosafety permits of the University of the Philippines in Mindanao (UP-Mindanao) and another field testing site for Bt eggplant in the Visayas for failing to comply
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 December) — Amid loud cheers from organic farmers and people opposed to Bt eggplant, UP Mindanao complied late afternoon Friday with Mayor Sara Duterte’s order to have the genetically-modified crop uprooted from the field test site near
