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BSU ties up with 2 schools in Manado

By Walter I. Balane | February 4, 2012

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 February) – Bukidnon State University has established links with an Indonesian state university and an international school based in the City of Manado in Sulawesi Island, Dante Victoria, university secretary told MindaNews Friday.

Victoria said BSU had signed …

• Death of alleged JI, Abu leaders ‘serious blow to transnational terrorism’
  

  ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/03 February) – The death of alleged Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and Abu Sayyaf leaders has dealt a “serious blow against transnational terrorism,” a US envoy today said even …

• Tribal products in South Cotabato chosen for branding dev’t
  

  KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/03 February) — Two unique products produced by ethnic tribes in South Cotabato were chosen to undergo a marketing makeover in a bid to make them competitive in …

• Smuggled onions, potatoes from China seized in Davao
  

  DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 February) – The Bureau of Customs yesterday seized smuggled red onions and potatoes from China inside 23 container vans with an estimated retail value of at least …

• Syndicate offering non-existent jobs at LTO-12
  

  GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/03 February) – The Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Region 12 warned residents on Friday regarding the operations of a recruitment syndicate that reportedly offers fake job …

• GMA TV crew working on Sendong story harassed in CDO hinterland village
  

  CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/2 February) – A local crew of GMA Network, Inc. said they were threatened on Wednesday by an irate village kagawad from one of the city’s …

• 15 JIs, Abu Sayyafs killed in Sulu airstrike
  

  ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/2 February) – Fifteen members of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and the Abu Sayyaf were killed in an air strike in Sulu before dawn today, the military said.

  Maj. …

PEACE PROCESS
2 war-torn barangays in NorthCot to benefit from OPAPP housing project

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 January) – Two war-torn villages in Kabacan town in North Cotabato are the newest additions to the beneficiaries of the core shelter program of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) under its project Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA), a …

• MILF: “We want to finish this process as soon as possible”

  
  

• GPH names 2 new peace panel members

  
  

• The women in the GPH-MILF peace talks

  
  

• GPH, MILF peace panels end three-day talks; will return to KL in January

  
  GOVERNANCE
  
  • P1B released to 4Ps in R-12, Marawi in 2011
    
    

    GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – The national government has released a total of P1.075 billion in cash grants last year to beneficiaries of its continuing conditional cash transfer program in Region 12 and portions of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

    Bai Zorahayda Taha, …

    
    

    • BIR collects P4.4B in Southwestern Mindanao; breaches 2011 target

      
      

    • SP questions budget, activities for Kaamulan

      
      

    • South Cotabato eyes P30-M mining revenue for 2012

      
      

    • Valencia City approves P6M for 3 irrigation pumps

    
    
  Another suspect in 2009 Ampatuan Mssacre falls
  
  

  KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 Dec) —  One of the 196 persons accused in the Ampatuan Massacre of November 23, 2009 was arrested inside a government hospital where he worked as security guard, at around 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, a police official said.

  Arrested was Sahid Guiamadel, 30, a …

  
  

  • Money, mansions, cars, guns of Ampatuans still on hold

    
    

  • An anarchy of mansions

    
    

  • In banks we trust? So did Ampatuans

    
    

  • Media, campus press, LGU call for justice for Ampatuan Massacre victims

    
    
  BUSINESS
  SMI says deposits in Tampakan project higher
  
  

  KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/27 January) – Despite the debacle on its application for an environmental compliance certificate (ECC), foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc. has released a new study showing a significant increase in the volume of copper and gold deposits in the mines site, a mining executive …

  
  

  • Fil-Am investor eyes 10,000-hectare coffee plantation in Bukidnon

    
    

  • PH, China two-way trade hit $32-B in 2011 – officials

    
    

  • Agri research center in Cotabato getting an upgrade

    
    

  • It’s still a waiting game for Pinoy tuna fishers

MINDAVIEWS

COMMENT: Postscript: Unsolicited Advice

By Patricio P. Diaz | February 4, 2012

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/February 3, 2012) – As  a postscript to our last Comment: “Pacquiao the Boxer in Congress” may we offer this unsolicited advice free of charge? Anything for the long lasting good of the giver and the beneficiaries is never late.

Does Manny Pacquiao really want to help the …

TINGOG SA SUBA: Mining sa Mindanao

By Ramon Jorge B. Sarabosing | February 4, 2012

Kung ikaw laagan
nagsuroy-suroy
sa yutang natawhan
magsakit gyud
ang imong dughan

ang dagkong kabukiran
pirmiro gipahak-pahakan
sunod gi-opawan
pagkahuman, gipanitan

unya dili na pasudlan
kay private property naman
‘hadlok makawatan

pero time-pa
kinsa ma’y kawatan
dili ba sila
nga ang yuta
gi-shipped
sa China ug Japan?

tigbak ang kakahuyan
poisoned ang kasubaan
goodbye kinaiyahan

unsaon ta man
mineral-rich ang island
pero ngano man
forever poor ang katawhan?

para ra man
sa langyaw
ug taga Manila’ng mayaman
sensilyo …

SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Putting Lumads on the spot

By H. Marcos C. Mordeno | February 3, 2012

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/2 February) – Col. Romeo Gapuz, commander of the 403rd Infantry Brigade, on Wednesday told the provincial board of Bukidnon that 2,500 Lumads (a generic term for indigenous peoples in Mindanao) in the province led by 13 datus or chieftains are helping the New People’s Army.

Pressed by Vice …

SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Unanswered questions

By H. Marcos C. Mordeno | February 2, 2012

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/1 February) – In today’s regular session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Bukidnon, Vice Gov. Jose Maria R. Zubiri Jr. suspended the house rules to enable an official from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in the province to render a report on what they have accomplished since …

COMMENT: Pacquiao the Boxer in Congress

By Patricio P. Diaz | January 31, 2012

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/30 January) – Pacquaio is facing his acid test in Congress: First, how well on the way is he in rounding the square peg that he is to fit into the round hole that is Congress? How is he living up to the great expectation cast …

MINDANAWON ABROAD

THE SEPARATIST: Memories of 2011: Pain, shock and a vow

By Patricio N. Abinales | January 6, 2012

HONOLULU  (MindaNews/06 January) —  I wish I could say 2011 was a good year for us. But it was not. My memories of 2011 will always be colored by the pain and shock Angela and I felt when we woke …

• SNIPPETS OF LIFE IN SYDNEY: A great and challenging year – globally and personally

  
  

  • MINDANAWON ABROAD: Maguindanao Massacre + 2

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  AROUND MINDANAO
  

  • Pantukan holds 1st Gawad Kalinga Partners forum, 45 houses pledged

  
  

  • Compostela Valley’s Mansaka tribe chosen for IP pilot housing program

  
  

  • Bagobo-K'latas in Kahusayan protest alleged encroachment of their land

   

  FOR THE RECORD
  

  • Senator Juan Miguel F. Zubiri: Speech Delivered on the Senate Plenary

  
  

  • Reforms in the time of (ARMM) election. By Atty. Mehol K. Sadain

  
  

  • Bangsamoro History and Quest for Future Status*. By Datu Michael O. Mastura

  
  

  • Dureza's 10 August memo re serving his six-year term

  
  

  • Dureza's 29 July "offer to relinquish post"

  
  
  
  STATEMENTS
  

  • Guarin’s killing is a stark reminder of impunity

  
  

  • Joint Statement of media groups in GenSan on the killing of Guarin

  
  

  • Statement by the Ambassador of Canada to the Philippines on the anniversary of the Maguindanao massacre

  
  

  • A Turning Point and A Test

  
  

  • Statement by U.S. Ambassador Harry K. Thomas, Jr. on the Second Anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre

  
  
  PRESS RELEASE
  

  • Where’s justice now in Aquino’s first year?

  
  

  • GPH panel consults Tawi-Tawi local officials

  
  

  • Tawi-Tawi’s main islands linked by transformative RP-US bridge-road project

  
  

  • Protesters Shaved heads, Tore-off RD Mama’s Orders on CARP Exemptions

  
  

  • RMN Davao Employees’ Union wins a landslide victory in today’s Certification Election

  
  

  See Davao City Forecast

  
  
  
  

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