By Violeta M. Gloria on May 14 2013 1:20 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/14 May)– Riding on the platform of a better peace and order situation, a retired police officer appears headed for victory as mayor of this city. Celsio Regencia,… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on March 13 2013 6:29 am
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews / 12 March) – Electoral candidates in Lanao del Sur and this city signed on Monday a covenant to end violence and political machination that made the… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on March 7 2013 12:00 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/06 March) – Peace groups in Mindanao and abroad have asked all parties involved in the Sabah dispute to arrive at a peaceful resolution to the crisis. The… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on March 1 2013 6:28 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/01 March)— Two peace advocates in Lanao del Norte urged Friday the Philippine and Malaysian governments to peacefully resolve the Sabah conflict arising from the claims of the… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 19 2013 2:19 pm
Unlike many residents living near Mandulog river in Iligan City who stayed home to keep watch as Tropical Depression Crising was nearing Mindanao, this fisher chose to cast his net in the hope… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 19 2013 2:15 pm
Jeepney passes through flooded street in Corpus Christi Village, Iligan City as water from the creek overflowed Tuesday, February 19. Heavy raina brought about by Tropical Depression Crising poured from dawn to 8 a.m. Mindaey ws… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 14 2013 9:31 pm
Clad in red, students of the Mindanao State University-IIT in Iligan City from Nursery to Grade 6, queue for a chance to watch the sun using Celestron Nexstar telescopes as their way of celebrating… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 14 2013 9:13 pm
TEACH YOUR MAN. Leonila Vicoy, a day care worker and lecturer on reducing domestic violence, urged mothers in a family development session at the Suarez gym in Iligan CIty on February 14… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 5 2013 7:17 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews) — Five persons were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in front of Ysmael Restaurant in Tubod, Lana o del Norte at 11:10 a.m. on… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on December 31 2012 6:30 am
Fruit vendors take over portions of the road in Iligan City. Round fruits, usually a dozen of them, are popular gifts to greet the New Year. MidnaNews photoss by Violeta M.… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on October 30 2012 7:30 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/30 October) – The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has started investigating the arson and twin killings last week inside the Mindanao State University campus in Marawi City… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on October 25 2012 8:16 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/25 October)– Alumni of Mindanao State University-Marawi City are demanding justice for a philosophy professor and his student assistant who were robbed before they were shot to death and… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on September 7 2012 9:50 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 7 Sept) – Leaders of the Subanen tribe, timuays and baes all, from the Zamboanga Peninsula are calling on President Benigsno Simeon Aquino III to help… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on September 4 2012 11:44 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/04 September) — A Subanen leader in the anti-logging and anti-mining campaigns in Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur survived an ambush attempt early Tuesday morning but his 11-year old… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on August 10 2012 5:23 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/9 Aug) – There is no martial rule declared inside the campus, according to Dr. Macapado A. Muslim, president of Mindanao State University, despite the attack within MSU… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on June 24 2012 6:31 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/24 June) – — Sixty-eight students were displaced while 27 others injured when fire allegedly caused by faulty electrical wiring razed the north wing on the ground floor… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on January 26 2012 7:22 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – President Benigno S. Aquino III today told officials of the National Housing Authority (NHA) to finish all the houses for suvivors of floods brought by… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on January 20 2012 11:45 am
IILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/19 January) – Officials here are demanding a probe on logging operations in the Lanao provinces which survivors of the flashfloods on December 16-17 blame for the massive… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on December 29 2011 5:32 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/28 Dec) – The city government of Iligan is eyeing to make use of lands owned by the National Steel Corporation (NSC) as relocation site for victims of… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on December 18 2011 6:30 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/18 December) — Five-month old Kathleen crawled on a piece of carton, her bed for the night, at the gymnasium of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on November 23 2011 6:40 am
ILIGAN CITY—Like in the past years it won’t just be a seven-day Mindanao Week of Peace celebration in Iligan and Lanao provinces but a month-long peace festival. Pastor Tenorio, chair… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on October 30 2011 12:44 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/29 Oct) — A brigade commander in Lanao del Norte has warned that an advisory spread through text messages allegedly coming from him and warning the public to… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on July 26 2011 11:36 pm
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/26 July) — Delegates to an assembly of indigenous peoples expressed dismay at their being not mentioned in the second State of the Nation Address of President Benigno… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on March 18 2011 7:11 am
FLOODED A resident walks on knee-deep flood waters waters brought by heavy rains this week. MindaNews Photo by Violeta Gloria
By Violeta M. Gloria on March 9 2011 12:56 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/08 March) — A small-scale miner in Mount Canatuan of Siocon town, Zamboanga del Norte was gunned down 12:30 p.m. Sunday allegedly by a security guard of a… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 25 2011 5:51 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/24 February) – A professor and a student who were abducted by unidentified armed men Saturday inside the Mindanao State University campus in Marawi City had been released,… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 24 2011 6:45 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/23 February)—An American national was reported missing and believed kidnapped by unknown persons but police and military authorities said they were baffled by the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 18 2011 6:03 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews) – This city is celebrating the National Arts Month by pushing indigenous arts more than popular arts and those from other countries. “We need to uphold our… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 15 2011 5:21 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews)—A military official with operational control over Lanao del Norte province heaved a sigh of relief as peace talks with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 14 2011 7:12 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/13 February) – Aleem Elias Macarandas, 56, a Muslim leader and educator considered to be one of the pillars of interfaith dialogue, succumbed to cardiac arrest Thursday morning … »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 9 2011 7:13 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/8 Feb) – An independent documentary film on the Bukidnon-Talaandig culture will premier on March 1 during the Kaamulan Festival in a yet unannounced venue, contemporary Talaandig visual… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 6 2011 12:09 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/05 February) – The order directing all regional offices of the Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to suspend the “acceptance… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 3 2011 5:26 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/2 Feb) – Human rights activists commemorated the death of an interpreter for United States soldiers by staging a rally in front of the Army’s 103rd Infantry Battalion… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 2 2011 12:04 am
GINABOT, Midsalip , Zamboanga del Sur (MindaNews/01 February) — The committee on indigenous peoples of the House of Representatives will conduct an inquiry into the cases filed against anti-mining activists… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 1 2011 7:43 am
A number of small scale miners at sitio Depore, barangay Balabag, Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur bring their children at the rod milling site to help in breaking ores. This practice… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on February 1 2011 12:12 am
BALABAG, Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur (MindaNews/31 January) — About 250 small-scale miners and some 5,000 residents of this barangay face displacement once TVI Resource Development Inc. (TVIRD), a subsidiary Canadian… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on January 29 2011 7:53 am
BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur (MindaNews/28 January) — Indigenous communities here have asked the local government to reveal the identities of companies that have conflicting mining claims in this town. Timuay Lucenio Manda, barangay chairperson of Conacon, raised the question after municipal officials said that aside from failing to comply with legal requirements, some companies have conflicting mining claims that cover portions of the Lumads’ 30,000-hectare ancestral domain.
By Violeta M. Gloria on January 28 2011 12:07 am
BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur (MindaNews) – Town officials here are bent on declaring the operations of various mining companies as illegal because of their arrogance, the overlapping claims of mining… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on January 22 2011 12:09 am
DIPOLOG CITY (MindaNews/21 Jan) – Reciting The Holy Rosary while holding aloft placards, around 1,000 protesters led by the Catholic church gathered at the Dipolog Cathedral Wednesday morning and marched… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on December 23 2010 9:56 am
MINDALANO, Salvador, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/22 December) – Two-year old Norhanif was a picture of serenity as he slept in a hammock fashioned out of a malong (multipurpose tube-like clothing)… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on December 22 2010 8:42 am
SALVADOR, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/21 Dec) – Over lunch of spiced chicken, beef randang and sea foods – the Maranaos’ special menu for rare occasions - former Rep. Abdullah Dimaporo… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on December 12 2010 12:02 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews) – National and local government offices, as well as civil society groups, are bent on fast-tracking the representation of the Higaonon tribe to the city council here,… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on December 10 2010 12:06 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/09 December) — Mindanao State University President Dr. Macapado Abaton Muslim has started negotiations for the release of two students who were kidnapped Tuesday inside the school campus… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on November 21 2010 1:01 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/19 Nov) — A non-government organization specializing in peace building and resource management in this city will celebrate the Mindanao Week of Peace by showing independent films on… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on November 7 2010 9:24 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 November)— A member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panel on Saturday suggested key points for media workers in Mindanao to consider to help sustain… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on September 2 2010 10:39 pm
BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur (MindaNews/2 Sept) — A series of killings, threats and harassments over the past months has alarmed indigenous people and civilian communities in this town. A report… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on September 1 2010 12:15 am
BAYUG, Zamboanga del Norte (MindaNews/31 August) — Human rights groups conducted a three-day fact-finding mission which started Sunday in nine barangays here to uncover facts behind the killing incidents that… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on August 14 2010 12:25 am
KAUSWAGAN, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/13 August) — The municipal government here has formed its own peace commission to enhance peaceful coexistence among Christians and Muslims, Mayor Rommel Arnado said. Arnado… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on August 5 2010 8:20 am
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/04 August) — Mayor Lawrence Lluch Cruz is pressuring the police force here to improve its capacity to resolve rising criminality and asked civilian communities to help identify… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on August 4 2010 9:33 pm
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews) — City Mayor Lawrence Lluch Cruz is pressuring the police force here to improve its capacity to resolve rising criminality and asked civilian communities to help identify… »
