By Mindanews on April 26 2012 8:20 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/25 April) – New People’s Army rebels carted away 66 assorted firearms in a raid Monday night on a security agency in Butuan City. In a statement, the… »
By Mindanews on April 25 2012 7:52 am
CHARTER DAY. Residents, officials and NGOs in Kauswagan town, Lanao del Norte release ballons and doves on April 23, 2012 during the celebration of the town’s Charter Day. MindaNews photo
By Mindanews on April 24 2012 7:08 am
FIRED UP Militants burn a US flag in a rally in Zamboanga City on 20 April 2012 to symbolize their opposition to American military presence in the Philippines. Contributed photo… »
By Mindanews on April 23 2012 7:52 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 April) – Want to learn basics of media education and deconstruction of media images, find out what to look for in the public officials’ Statements of Assets,… »
By Mindanews on April 21 2012 8:18 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 April) – The latest round of war games between the Philippines and the US and negotiations for American military “basing” in the country may dim prospects for… »
By Mindanews on April 21 2012 8:07 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 April) – Two soldiers were wounded when suspected New People’s Army rebels ambushed their vehicles on their way to pick up medical personnel in Sitio Kibalang, Barangay… »
By Mindanews on April 20 2012 7:16 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 April) – Police operatives busted a Taiwanese international syndicate during simultaneous raids on three houses here Wednesday. Sr. Supt. Ronald dela Rosa, city police director, said the… »
By Mindanews on April 20 2012 6:59 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/18 April) – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has filed Wednesday charges against six guns for hire, including three militiamen, who were arrested in a failed attempt… »
By Mindanews on April 20 2012 6:55 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/19 April) – The city health officer here has urged barangay officials and residents to strengthen campaign against dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease, as he revealed that cases… »
By Mindanews on April 19 2012 8:18 am
LEARNING from the special registration of persons with disabilities (PWD) last year, the Commission on Election in Davao’s first district and in Kadilingan town in Bukidnon said they are more prepared this time than they were in 2011. The month-long special Comelec registration of PWDs in Mindanao will officially kick off in Davao on Wednesday, April 18, although registrations have been ongoing since April 1.
By Mindanews on April 19 2012 8:11 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 April) – A Malaysian airline has bared interest to operate routes to Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan, both in Sabah in Eastern Malaysia, through its 68-seater turboprop aircraft.… »
By Mindanews on April 18 2012 10:30 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/17 April) – Appointed Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Gov. Mujiv Hataman marked his first 100 days in office with a report detailing his administration’s efforts to regain… »
By Mindanews on April 18 2012 10:18 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/17 April) – Greenpeace released today a report “confirming the dangers” of cultivating genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). The report, which focuses on Bt eggplant, a GMO variety currently being… »
By Mindanews on April 17 2012 6:35 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/16 April) – Increasing the power rates in Mindanao will have “dire consequences” on the island’s economy, as its present rates are already high compared to those in… »
By Mindanews on April 15 2012 10:06 pm
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/15 April) – The city government in coordination with the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP)-Zamboanga Chapter launched on Thursday the search for best architectural design to be… »
By Mindanews on April 14 2012 7:46 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 April) – Saying the people should “bite the bullet” a little bit more, President Benigno Aquino III today rejected calls to stop the privatization of the power… »
By Mindanews on April 14 2012 7:35 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 April) – Many local government chief executives appeared to have been kept in the dark over the curtailment of power in their areas, where brownouts would last… »
By Mindanews on April 11 2012 8:37 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/10 April) – Twenty-two soldiers were wounded, five of them in critical condition, in a landmine explosion near a bandit camp in Basilan province, military officials disclosed Tuesday.… »
By Mindanews on April 11 2012 8:36 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/10 April) – Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels took a policeman as captive and carted away high-powered firearms in a raid on the police station of Tigbao,… »
By Mindanews on April 10 2012 7:10 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 April) – Authorities have formed a task force that will investigate the killing Sunday night of a barangay chair in this city. Senior Insp. Jessie Jay Francia,… »
By Mindanews on April 6 2012 10:54 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/5 April) – Armed men believed to be members of the Abu Sayyaf ambushed security personnel of a cooperative rubber plantation owned by agrarian reform beneficiaries in the… »
By Mindanews on April 5 2012 6:59 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/4 Apr) – One of the suspects in the killing of a university official here over the weekend was slain during a shootout with policemen past midnight today… »
By Mindanews on April 4 2012 8:08 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 April) – The Inter-Religious Solidarity Movement for Peace today asked authorities to put a stop to the unresolved killings in Zamboanga City that have claimed dozens of… »
By Mindanews on April 4 2012 8:02 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/03 April) – General Santos City-based journalist Edwin Espejo on Monday (April 2) submitted his counter-affidavit to refute the P18-M libel suit filed against him by used… »
By Mindanews on April 4 2012 7:25 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/03 April) – Ten unidentified gunmen suspected to be kidnappers seized a town mayor in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, the police reported. The Zamboanga del Norte… »
By Mindanews on April 3 2012 7:57 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/02 April) – Hired killers were responsible for the death Sunday of a university official, a police official said. Chief Supt. Mario Yanga, Region-9 police deputy director for… »
By Mindanews on April 2 2012 8:06 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 April) — Government agents raided simultaneously 10 warehouses in Davao, North Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat Thursday, arrested nine persons and confiscated P50 million worth of adulterated fertilizers.… »
By Mindanews on April 2 2012 8:00 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/01 April) – Mayor Celso Lobregat has urged everyone to make every hour an Earth Hour to help contribute to the global efforts to reverse climate change and… »
By Mindanews on March 31 2012 8:30 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/30 March) – Lanterns will fill the evening skies as their release will be the highlight of the local government’s participation in the observance of this year’s Earth… »
By Mindanews on March 30 2012 8:58 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 March) – The regional office of the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has recommended to its central office to approve the petition of a transport… »
By Mindanews on March 28 2012 9:59 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/28 March) – The provincial government of South Cotabato is set to launch a seed subsidy scheme for palay farmers who would be affected by the upcoming… »
By Mindanews on March 27 2012 7:08 am
SAN ISIDRO, Gigaquit, Surigao del Norte (MindaNews/26 March) — The shooting last Friday of a Mamanwa in Barangay Camam-onan allegedly by soldiers belonging to the 30th Infantry Battalion has forced… »
By Mindanews on March 27 2012 6:58 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/26 March) – The government should not use the so-called Ramos-style solution in addressing the reported power crisis in Mindanao “to shield the public from greedy power producers,”… »
By Mindanews on March 27 2012 6:37 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/26 March) – Two teachers seized a week ago in Iligan City have been released by their kidnappers owing to pressure exerted by authorities, a military official announced… »
By Mindanews on March 26 2012 2:12 pm
IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay (MindaNews/26 March) – Seven alleged drug pushers were arrested in two separate buy-bust operations on March 22 and 23 as part of the “all-out war” against drug… »
By Mindanews on March 26 2012 8:58 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 March) — That two-part exposé of the Philippine Center of Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) last March 14 and 15 on how top Philippine government officials comply with… »
By Mindanews on March 25 2012 8:45 am
E-BLOTTER. Senior Insp. Joel Tuttuh of the Zamboanga City Police Office shows how to fill an e-blotter on his laptop during the launching of the project in Zamboanga City. MindaNews… »
By Mindanews on March 25 2012 8:30 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/24 March) – The management of the Zamboanga City Water District (ZCWD) is apprehensive that the establishment of a coal-fired power plant in a west coast barangay will… »
By Mindanews on March 24 2012 11:55 am
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 output report of this educational exchange program. I hope that other Moro academics and researchers will find this article worthwhile and encourage them to be interested in learning much from the Japanese society in as much as they are also keen on reaching out to the Muslims in Southeast Asia.
By Mindanews on March 23 2012 8:22 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 March) – Small-scale miners operating in Pantukan, Compostela Valley today said they will not give up the area to large-scale mining interests. In a statement issued at… »
By Mindanews on March 22 2012 7:44 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/21 March) – A business group has filed with the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) a motion to intervene in the hearing relative to the application of the Zamboanga… »
By Mindanews on March 22 2012 7:37 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, March 21, 2012 – Did Mrs. Cristina R. Corona really sell her 1,700 sq. m. land in Marikina Heights to Demetrio C. Vicente on July 26, 1990?… »
By Mindanews on March 21 2012 8:23 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/20 March) – Suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits seized six health workers in a remote barangay in Patikul, Sulu Monday afternoon but released five of the victims shortly after,… »
By Mindanews on March 21 2012 8:16 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/20 March) – The National Statistics Office (NSO) announced that three regions in Mindanao have registered high employment rates in January of this year. The Mindanao regions that… »
By Mindanews on March 20 2012 7:27 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 March) – Ronaldo L. Seras, principal of the Slum Improvement Resettlement (SIR) Elementary School, beamed as his pupils tinkered with the computers recently acquired by the school,… »
By Mindanews on March 19 2012 11:13 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 March) — Who is considered a transgender – RuPaul or Bebe Gandanghari? What’s the difference between sex and gender? How about sexual orientation and gender identity? Most… »
By Mindanews on March 16 2012 7:40 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 March) – Listed Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Inc. increased its capital stock to 2.5 billion common shares, more than three folds from its previous standing shares, as it… »
By Mindanews on March 14 2012 7:20 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 March) – Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona faces a separate forfeiture case before the Sandiganbayan after a partylist organization and three student councils jointly filed a… »
By Mindanews on March 14 2012 7:06 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/13 March) – Gunmen believed to be members of a kidnap-for-ransom-group seized a son of a barangay official in the nearby province of Zamboanga Sibugay, a police official… »
By Mindanews on March 11 2012 1:51 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/10 March) — On 7 March 2012, at the former cemetery site of the archdiocese, 67 evacuee families affected by Typhoon Sendong had the inaugural blessing of their new transitional shelter homes. These low-cost housing units were constructed under the supervision of Catholic Relief Services which had teamed up with the archdiocese in the relief and rehabilitation efforts in the aftermath of Typhoon Sendong on Dec. 16-17.
