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SPECIAL REPORT: Mindanao floods: Unprepared for the worst (2)

Last of two parts

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/31 December) – Weather bureau PAGASA issued storm signal number 2 for “Sendong”. In the Philippines, however, most people only become restless when storm signals reach number 3 or higher, which explains the general complacency …


Move forward and hope that we all learn from the lessons of Sendong

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/21 January) – For the past month, I failed to open my emails and the social network sites. Sendong took all my appetite to communicate to acquaintances, friends and loved ones in all the corners of the world.

I hope you understand such predicament. Mine is just one of the more than 100,000 stories, but I decided to write …

The lost enchantment of Hinatuan’s Enchanted River

HINATUAN, Surigao del Sur – What was once an ordinary log pond at the height of the logging operations in Surigao del Sur in the 1950s is now one of the top tourist destinations in the province.

REVIEW: The Seductive Power of Buzzwords

(Review of “The Politics of Anti-Politics: What does the buzzword ‘community-driven development’ do? The case of Mindanao Peace and Development” by Nikki Philline C. de la Rosa, published in Mindanao Focus No. 1, Series of 2010, Alternate Forum for Research …

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BSU ties up with 2 schools in Manado

By | 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 …



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 …

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COMMENT: Postscript: Unsolicited Advice

By | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 …


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