By Contributor on April 24 2013 12:37 am
GUMASA, Sarangani (April 22, 2013) – The growing crowd each year flocking into the white sand beaches here in Glan never fails to hype Sarangani Bay Festival as Mindanao’s biggest… »
By Contributor on April 24 2013 12:21 am
ALABEL, Sarangani (April 22, 2013) – Around 4,000 guests and delegates from the 49 Islamic schools in Sarangani are joining this year’s Musabaqah, an event the province is holding to… »
By Mindanews on November 12 2012 2:40 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 Nov) — “Towards Multi-Ethnic Archiving in the Postmodern Era” is this year’s theme for the National Archives Congress which will be held at the Ateneo de Davao… »
By Mindanews on November 12 2012 2:40 pm
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/12 November) – Mayor Celso Lobregat has issued two executive orders banning the sale of pellet toy guns and regulating, controlling and limiting the pyrotechnics allowed to be… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on November 12 2012 2:38 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 Nov) — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to convene the city’s election registration board to assess and validate the applications for registration of new… »
By Contributor on November 1 2012 7:18 am
BAGANGA, Davao Oriental- More or less 2,500 marched in Lingig, Surigao del Sur on Tuesday in support of the government’s peace building efforts that banner sincere messages of reconciliation and… »
By Cong Corrales on October 31 2012 11:02 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 31 Oct) – Members of the local environmental group Sulog lambasted the Mines and Geosciences Bureau here for its “Pontius Pilate-like” reaction on the… »
By Mindanews on October 25 2012 7:58 pm
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/25 October) – A wooden-hulled cargo vessel and its cargo sunk while moored at a private wharf in this city, a coast guard official disclosed Thursday. Lieutenant Commander… »
By Ramon Jorge B. Sarabosing on October 25 2012 5:15 pm
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/25 October) — The first ever privately-owned art center in Caraga Region recently opened in Butuan City, to cater to the needs of art patrons, buyers and enthusiasts… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 24 2012 4:09 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 October) – The City Tourism Board launched last week the private sector-led Bukidnon Highland Games (BHG) 2012, which aims set to promote Bukidnon as a destination for… »
By Contributor on June 11 2011 6:07 am
Compostela Valley Province -— The next wave of Compostela Valley’s advocacy for the poorest of the poor came to Pantukan as it holds its Gawad Kalinga Partners forum at Magnaga… »
By Mindanews on May 26 2011 5:41 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 May) – The Mansaka tribe in Pantukan town, Compostela Valley would be the country’s pilot community in a government housing project for indigenous peoples, after Vice President… »
By Germelina Lacorte on April 29 2011 12:53 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 Apr) – On the second day of their march for justice and land, at least 300 Bagobo K’lata lumads and farmers from sitio Kahusayan in barangay Guianga… »
By Walter I. Balane on April 29 2011 12:52 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/23 Apr) – Descendants of the Bukidnon tribe’s Datu Mansikiabo-Datu Mampaalong in Malaybalay City have scheduled on April 30 and May 1 a “panendan” or a ritual to… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on April 29 2011 12:50 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/28 Apr) – There will be no welcome news of any wage increases for workers in Regions 9 and 12 on Labor Day, May 1. Despite the high… »
By Contributor on April 17 2011 8:14 am
DAVAO CITY – A proposed bill creating Southern Palawan Special Economic Zone and Free Port Authority gets an endorsement from the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) Board during the 2nd MinDA… »
By Mindanews on March 23 2011 8:17 am
PROVINCIAL CAPITOL, Tuesday 22 March 2011:- Ambassador Harry K. Thomas Jr. of the United States paid a courtesy call on Governor Abdusakur M. Tan at the Office of the Governor… »
By Mindanews on March 15 2011 7:23 am
Nabunturan, Compostela Valley – Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy was joined by the municipal mayors and DepEd Officials led by Regional Director Dr. Susanna Estigoy and GILAS Project Team during the… »
By Contributor on March 15 2011 6:50 am
JOLO, SULU, Sunday 13 March 2011:- Secretary of the Interior and Local Government Jesse M. Robredo, in an unannounced visit, flew in today to personally inspect the scene of the… »
By Walter I. Balane on February 11 2011 7:02 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/10 February) – “Balaghusay,” a depiction of the traditional tribal arbitrator in the Talaandig community and nine other art works by the tribe’s visual artists are featured in… »
By Walter I. Balane on January 30 2011 3:01 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 January) — Instead of just playing indigenous sports as it has been the tradition in the annual Kaamulan Festival, Bukidnon’s indigenous peoples and communities will hold the… »
By BenCyrus G. Ellorin on January 21 2011 12:55 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 Jan) – Two persons died, four are still fighting for dear life while 18 others sustained injuries when a fully loaded jeepney collided head-on with… »
By Walter I. Balane on January 13 2011 4:44 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/12 Jan) – Organizers of this year’s Kaamulan Festival in are changing the rules for the street dancing competition, the festivities’ highlights, so that it will focus on… »
By Froilan Gallardo on January 13 2011 4:42 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews/12 Jan) – Every Saturday, Mary Grace Barlisan, 18, a second-year education student from Xavier University, wakes up early to prepare for the big day ahead. But… »
By BenCyrus G. Ellorin on January 7 2011 12:01 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/06 January) — The post office building along Chavez and Rizal Streets here burned around 2:00 a.m. today and gutted along with it the government-owned telecommunications… »
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 Froilan Gallardo on December 5 2010 8:28 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/05 December) – Complaints of sexual abuse and harassment were filed last week before the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in this city against the publisher… »
By Walter I. Balane on November 30 2010 11:57 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 November) – His alleged attackers have turned the table on a broadcaster based in Maramag, Bukidnon who claimed to have been ambushed by them near Dayo Subdivision… »
By BenCyrus G. Ellorin on November 29 2010 9:35 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 November) – On Saturday, he claimed to have been a victim of an ambush on the same day in Valencia City. But as far as the police… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on November 29 2010 9:32 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 November)—European Union’s top diplomat in the country bemoaned the portrayal of Mindanao as a “land of chaos” despite its economic potentials. Ambassador Alistair H. Macdonald, head… »
By Walter I. Balane on November 28 2010 1:43 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 November) – An anchor of an entertainment program in a radio station in Maramag, southern Bukidnon survived an ambush on his way home in neighboring Valencia City… »
By Walter I. Balane on November 28 2010 1:29 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 November) — Operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation have arrested a suspect of the slaying of Bukidnon State University instructor Jay Jaspher Santonińo, the chief of… »
By Germelina Lacorte on November 24 2010 7:00 am
In Davao City, a kongko refers to someone who asks favor, oftentimes cash, from sources after an interview. The term, coined in the 1990s, refers to someone who poses as a media person to extort cash from politicians or businessmen.
By Allen V. Estabillo on November 23 2010 1:18 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 Nov) – Families and colleagues of the 32 journalists who were killed in the gruesome Ampatuan Massacre will stage a caravan Tuesday to the carnage’s site… »
By Germelina Lacorte on November 23 2010 1:11 am
Part I: Wrong Time, Wrong Place 1st of three parts By Germelina A. Lacorte / MindaNews DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 Nov) — On the evening of November 22, 2009, Santos Gatchalian… »
By Mindanews on November 23 2010 1:09 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/22 November) – Pressure from local politicians and groups involved in syndicated crimes and illegal activities are among the main hazards facing journalists in Mindanao as well as… »
By Germelina Lacorte on November 23 2010 1:07 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 Nov) – A year after the Ampatuan massacre that killed 58 people, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) hit President Aquino for failing to… »
By Mindanews on November 23 2010 1:04 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 Nov) – Members of the Bukidnon news media are commemorating the first anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre with a mass on November 23 starting at 4 a.m.… »
By Mindanews on November 21 2010 1:45 am
DAVAO CITY (20 November 2010) — The Ateneo de Zamboanga University (ADZU) on Friday conferred on MindaNews the ”Ateneo Peace Award” for “making a marked difference in Journalism and Public… »
By BenCyrus G. Ellorin on November 17 2010 2:34 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/16 Nov) – The Pulangi V hydro electric project and the claim of a sacred burial site of the Manobo ancestors have divided the lumads in… »
By Alden Pantaleon on November 15 2010 4:12 pm
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews/15 November) – “The Church will stand up for and defend the environment if the Department of Environment and Natural Resoruces (DENR) cannot,” Butuan Bishop… »
By Walter I. Balane on November 13 2010 10:25 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 November) — The National Museum of the Philippines is set to declare the Apu Mamalu burial ground in Misakil, Damulog, Bukidnon a national cultural treasure, Sen. Juan… »
By Mindanews on November 10 2010 10:35 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 November) – The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) is now out of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and back to the Office of the… »
By Walter I. Balane on November 7 2010 9:31 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 November) — The Mindanao Media Forum gave its 1st Agong Award to veteran journalist Patricio P. Diaz for his “well-researched and incisive commentaries on events affecting Mindanao… »
By BenCyrus G. Ellorin on November 7 2010 8:30 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Eight stay-in workers that includes a seven-month pregnant woman died when a commercial establishment was razed by fire at 2 o’clock in the morning Saturday.… »
By Mindanews on October 28 2010 10:39 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 Oct) — Ten participants from the town of Esperanza in Agusan del Sur finished the Grassroots Documentation and Reporting Training organized by the Mindanao News and Information… »
By Germelina Lacorte on October 28 2010 9:40 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 Oct) — The country’s largest women alliance has given the Aquino government a failing mark for leaving out Mindanao and women’s issues from its priority agenda. Gabriela… »
By Mindanews on October 15 2010 12:01 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 October) – Lumad leaders of a peace advocacy group have written the chair of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), complaining that the representation… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on October 8 2010 7:22 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/08 October) – Police and Army personnel in Sarangani Province captured Thursday a fugitive aide of Ampatuan Massacre principal suspect Andal Ampatuan Jr. who was among the… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on October 8 2010 7:21 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/08 October) – A nurse who survived the 1990 Gulf War and a seaman-turned-entrepreneur from North Cotabato have been chosen as 2010 Model OFW Family of the… »
