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Pantukan small-scale miners vow another barricade if..

By Carolyn O. Arguillas | May 21, 2012

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 May) – Small-scale miners in Pantukan town will stage another barricade this week if municipal and provincial officials do not act on the demands raised during the barricade at Kingking Bridge Thursday last week in Compostela Valley, …

• Civil society urged to do more as GPH-MILF peace nego enters critical phase
  

  DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 May) –  Representatives of civil society on Friday challenged each other to do more to help push forward the peace process between government and the Moro Islamic …

• New Davao Archbishop installed Tuesday
  

  DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 May) – Zamboanga Archbishop Romulo Geolina Valles will be installed as the new Archbishop of Davao on Tuesday, May 22, the fourth archbishop in the nearly 42-year …

• Massive fumigation in Zambo schools ordered
  

  ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/20 May) –City Hall has ordered the City Health Office to conduct a  massive fumigation in all schools, both public and private, starting Monday to prevent dengue.

  Mayor Celso …

• GPH peace panel: copy of final agreement made public before signing
  

  ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/19 May) – The government has assured residents here that the final agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will be made public before the panel signs …

• 44 victims of human trafficking rescued in Zambo, 27 of them minors
  

  ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/19 May) –  Forty-four victims of human trafficking, most of them minors,  were rescued by police in a local hotel Friday morning.

  Operatives of the Women and Children Protection …

• Mindanao business sector eyes integrated ASEAN market
  

  CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 May) –With the uncertainty of the China market brought about by the dispute over Scarborough shoal, Mindanao businessmen are looking into a newer and bigger …

PEACE PROCESS
Deles urges greater public participation in Mindanao peace process

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/04 May) — The government wants greater public participation in the Mindanao peace process, Secretary Teresita Quintos-Deles of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process said….

• New JICA chief meets MILF; vows continued aid for Mindanao

  
  

• From RAG to ARMM to NAPE? A backgrounder (2)

  
  

• OIC a no-show in GPH-MILF talks

  
  

• What broke the impasse that led to the signing of the “GPH-MILF Decision points”

  
  GOVERNANCE
  
  • Hataman: ARMM’s appointed legislators are “reform-oriented”
    
    

    DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 May) —  OIC Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) says he is “sure” that majority of the  27 persons named to the Regional Legislative Assembly (RLA) are “reform-oriented” even if the names are dominated by and associated …

    
    

    • Kidapawan bent on going to court to get power from geothermal plants

      
      

    • Nat’l gov’t ‘owes’ Malaybalay almost P1B

      
      

    • Dutertes’ net worth: Vice Mayor Rody richer than Mayor Sara by P1.56M

      
      

    • Mindanao’s richest gov is del Rosario, Maguindanao’s Mangudadatu is 2nd; richest city mayor is Matugas

    
    
  Ampatuan massacre, other cases ‘gathering dust’ at ASEAN rights commission
  
  

  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (MindaNews/30 March) – Human rights cases filed before the two-year old human rights body of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have continued to gather dust at the regional secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia as it continued to lack the necessary mechanism …

  
  

  • Another Ampatuan in 2009 massacre falls

    
    

  • Murder case finally filed, 28 months after the massacre

    
    

  • Ampatuan patriarch’s military hospital stay: the third time around

    
    

  • Police suspect in Ampatuan Massacre returns home in a box

    
    
  BUSINESS
  Region 9 fisheries production down by 18.18 percent
  
  

  ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/05 May) –  Fish production in  the three Zamboanga provinces decreased by 137,659.21 Metric Tons (MT) or 18.18% last year compared with 2010, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) said.

  NSCB Regional Director Mewchun Pamaran said this came about as the commercial, municipal and …

  
  

  • NorthCot businesses suffer due to blackouts

    
    

  • Malaysian airline to operate flights to Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan

    
    

  • A decade after: Bt corn farming robust in PH

    
    

  • Kidapawan bent on going to court to get power from geothermal plants

MINDAVIEWS

SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: To catch a falling crown (2)

By H. Marcos C. Mordeno | May 21, 2012

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 May) – My hunch could be wrong, but I am having doubts Chief Justice Renato Corona will testify on Tuesday (May 22) at the impeachment trial as assured by his lawyers.

Corona’s decision will depend on how his defense team’s appraisal of the impact of the testimony of …

SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Not all that glitters

By H. Marcos C. Mordeno | May 20, 2012

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 May) – As of  May 18, residents of Barangay Dao in San Fernando town, Bukidnon are still encamping the capitol grounds in this city. Their number seems to have grown, as I saw more tents when I passed by the capitol from the bus terminal. And there …

COMMENT: On ‘Decision Points on Principle’ (Last of the series)

By Patricio P. Diaz | May 19, 2012

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 May) – Both Government and MILF have hailed the “Decision” as a breakthrough; so have the peace advocates – the first upbeat; the second, remaining focused on their original demand.

SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: To catch a falling crown

By H. Marcos C. Mordeno | May 18, 2012

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/17 May) – In their solitude the lawyers of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona must have regretted the day they announced that he would testify on the $10-million allegation if the Senate would summon Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales and the complainants to testify under oath.

Did Corona’s lawyers simply resort …

PACQUIAO WATCH: Life in a fishbowl (Part 3)

By Edwin G. Espejo | May 18, 2012

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 May) — I certainly believed Manny Pacquiao when he said he is not anti-gay. His wife Jinkee has a man-err-girl Friday and he admits to having gay relatives. He tolerates them, to say the least.

Filipinos have begun to embrace gays and LGBT definitely has already seeped …

MINDANAWON ABROAD

IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Uncovering Japan at a time of tragedy

By Mindanews | March 24, 2012

In November 24 to December 3, 2011, I went on a trip to Japan upon the official invitation of the Japanese Embassy in Manila and the Japan Foundation in Tokyo. This article is published here in my column as the …

• DeMISTYfied IN DJOGJA: Women, tradition, taghuri (kites) and memories of Sulu

  
  

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  STATEMENTS
  

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  • Statement of ADDU alumni engaged in civil society concerns in support of ADDU’s stance on mining

  
  

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