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Nurse-turned-politician, ex-seaman bag R-12 Model OFW Family awards
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… »
Colleagues of gang-raped nurse want to pull out from area
By Germelina Lacorte on October 7 2010 11:52 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/7 Oct) — The Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) said the gang-rape of a volunteer nurse in South Upi might worsen the scarcity of health workers in remote communities… »
OWWA to set up more help desks for OFWs in R-12
By Allen V. Estabillo on October 7 2010 11:03 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/7 Oct) – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) will establish additional assistance desks for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao to help… »
The story behind the Indigenous Peoples' Sunday by Karl M. Gaspar, CSsR
By Karl M. Gaspar CSsR on October 7 2010 4:02 pm
In terms of numerology, the three tens placed side by side look quite impressive. 10 October 2010. That is what these three tens are all about: the second Sunday of October this year. For the Catholic Church in the Philippines, this is the celebration of the Indigenous Peoples or IP Sunday. On this day, priests are expected to give homilies and invited IPs provide commentaries on the sad plight of the IPs as well as encourage Christian lowlanders to express their solidarity with the IPs’ struggle for self-determination.
27 hurt in Maguindanao bus accident
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on October 7 2010 12:04 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/6 Oct) – A bus skidded off a rain-slicked highway before noon today in Montawal town in Maguindanao and turned upside down, injuring 27 passengers, eight of them… »
23 passengers hurt as bus falls into cliff
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on October 6 2010 12:01 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/05 October) – Twenty-three passengers, mostly ambulant vendors and farmers, were injured when the mini-bus carrying them fell into a cliff along the Arakan Valley Complex highway in… »
DSWD launches search for child-friendly police station in Davao City
By Germelina Lacorte on October 4 2010 11:08 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 October) — The Committee for the Welfare of Children in Southeastern Mindanao has opened the country’s first search for a child-friendly police station in the city. Ester… »
Sad tales of OFWs from NorthCot prompt mother to seek return of daughter
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on October 1 2010 10:27 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/1 Oct) – The sad tales of two overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from North Cotabato who died working in the Middle East prompted a 41-year-old mother to seek… »
Colleagues demand justice for raped nurse
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on September 29 2010 3:38 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/28 September) – Government health workers from South Upi town in Maguindanao province today staged an indignation rally in Cotabato City condemning the gang-rape of their co-worker. They… »
SC junks Arroyo edict awarding CMU lands to ancestral domain claimants
By Walter I. Balane on September 27 2010 11:20 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 September) – Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo erred in issuing Presidential Proclamation 310 which granted 670 hectares of land taken from a state university in Bukidnon as part… »
Group renews call for inclusion of women in gov’t, MILF peace panels
By Germelina Lacorte on September 25 2010 1:13 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 September) — A women’s group has urged both the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to include women in their respective peace panels. Irene Santiago, chair of the Mindanao Commission on Women (MCW), said gender ‘may not be central’ to the conflict between the MILF and the government ‘but they are central to its resolution.’
Dismissed station manager sues RMN for alleged illegal dismissal
By Germelina Lacorte on September 23 2010 8:35 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 September) – Dismissed radio station manager Dodong Solis on Thursday sued his former employer, Radio Mindanao Network (RMN), for alleged illegal dismissal, saying he is going to… »
Koronadal high vies for 2009 Best Software Freedom Day Event
By Allen V. Estabillo on September 23 2010 8:31 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/23 September) — Free software advocate Software Freedom International (SFI) feted a group of public high school students in Koronadal City in South Cotabato for its continuing… »
One of five children in Bukidnon is a child laborer
By Walter I. Balane on September 19 2010 7:11 am
VALENCIA CITY (MindaNews/18 September) — One of five children between the ages five and 14 or 67,000 children in Bukidnon are considered by the International Labor Organization as child laborers,… »
P-Noy arriving in Davao Thursday for first ever Mindanao visit
By Mindanews on September 16 2010 12:05 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 Sept) — President Benigno Aquino III will arrive here Thursday morning to start up the P3.5-billion 42-megawatt hydro plant in Sibulan, Sta. Cruz town in Davao del… »
NPA rebels raid banana plantation in Cotabato
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on September 16 2010 12:03 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 Sept) – Some 50 fully armed New Peoples’ Army (NPA) rebels raided a banana plantation in Tulunan town in North Cotabato this morning, torching company cargo trucks… »
CMU, Bukidnon's 1st university, celebrates centennial
By Walter I. Balane on September 15 2010 10:45 am
MUSUAN, Maramag, Bukidnon (MindaNews/15 September) – The Central Mindanao University is celebrating its 100th anniversary from September 12 to 18, 2010 with the theme “Reminiscing the Past, Celebrating the Present,… »
Bukidnon site of ILO program on child labor
By Walter I. Balane on September 12 2010 12:01 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 September) – Bukidnon is among four provinces in the country where the International Labor Organization (ILO) is putting in place a continuing program to look into the… »
Election of CMU president postponed – again
By Walter I. Balane on September 11 2010 10:07 am
MUSUAN, Maramag, Bukidnon – After the election of the Central Mindanao University president was postponed for the second time, members of the state-owned school’s board of regents yesterday expressed worries… »
Surigao Norte to set fixed rates for transport, other services catering to tourists
By Roel Catoto on September 10 2010 8:50 pm
SURIGAO CITY – Complaints that operators of public transport and other services are charging unjust rates local and foreign tourists visiting Siargao and Bucas Grande Islands in Surigao del Norte,… »
RMN Davao employees back axed station manager
By Froilan Gallardo on September 10 2010 12:05 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/9 Sept) – Employees of Radio Mindanao Network DXDC mounted a show of support for their station manager, Maximo “Dodong “ Solis, staging a noisy picket outside the… »
Antonino’s appointment: antedated to August 9 but announced Sept. 3
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on September 9 2010 1:49 am
DAVAO CITY – The appointment of former South Cotabato Representative Luwalhati Ricasa-Antonino as the new chair of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) was antedated to August 9 but announced only… »
Qualification questions hound Antonino’s appointment as MinDA chair
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on September 7 2010 11:35 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 September) – “Is she a master’s degree holder or a lawyer? The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) charter requires that credential,” asked Sebastian “Angie” Angliongto, former chair of… »
Bukidnon Bishop: achieve peace through peaceful means
By Walter I. Balane on September 4 2010 9:57 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/04 September) – In his first pastoral letter after the August 29 grenade-lobbing incident in the San Vicente Ferrer Parish church in Kalilangan town, Bukidnon bishop Jose Araneta… »
New MinDA chair says her appointment was signed last week
By Mindanews on September 3 2010 1:40 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/03 September) — Former South Cotabato Representative Luwalhati R. Antonino will head the newly-created Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) replacing Jesus G. Dureza, President Benigno C. Aquino III… »
Dureza out, Luwalhati Antonino in as new MinDA chair
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on September 3 2010 11:26 am
UPDATED DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 September) – After six months in what would have been a six-year term as chairman of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), lawyer Jesus Dureza will step… »
Bukidnon wants tighter grip on radio stations
By Mindanews on September 2 2010 10:39 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/2 Sept) – The Bukidnon provincial board has considered passing an ordinance requiring local government units in the province not to issue business permits to radio stations if… »
Parish priest blames Kalilangan church blast on land conflict
By BenCyrus G. Ellorin on August 30 2010 10:56 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – Sunday’s grenade attack on the San Vicente Ferrer church in Kalilangan, Bukidnon during a morning mass was related to a land conflict, the Bishop of… »
From 27 provinces, 33 cities, Mindanao is now back to 25 provinces and 27 cities
By Mindanews on August 29 2010 11:33 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 August) – From 27 provinces and 33 cities in 2008, Mindanao is back to having only 25 provinces and 27 cities with the Supreme Court reiterating its… »
58 trees planted in honor of Ampatuan Massacre victims
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on August 24 2010 10:52 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 August) — Fifty-eight seedlings of the hardwood Lawaan species were planted on Monday at the foot of Mount Apo, the country’s highest peak, particularly at the watershed… »
Valencia feast opens with a “Lumad” mass
By Walter I. Balane on August 23 2010 9:39 pm
VALENCIA CITY(MindaNews/23 August) — For the first time in the parish’s history, the feast of San Agustin in Valencia City will be opened with a mass in Binukid, the language… »
Top letter-writer of “Dear P-Noy” hoped to land 5th place
By Mindanews on August 23 2010 7:29 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 August) – Sixteen year-old Julie Kristie A. De Guzman had hoped she would make it to the 5th place so she could have that blue shirt that… »
Arson involved in Sarangani town hall fire?
By Allen V. Estabillo on August 21 2010 12:01 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 Aug) – The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)-led Inter-agency Anti-Arson Task Force (IATF) is set to take over the investigation on the burning… »
PNP-12 gives ‘heroism’ awards to 11 cops
By Allen V. Estabillo on August 20 2010 1:56 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 Aug) – The Philippine National Police awarded the prestigious heroism medal to at least 11 members of the Police Regional Office 12’s anti-crime task force for… »
NPA admits killing soldier, civilian in Balingasag
By BenCyrus G. Ellorin on August 18 2010 12:03 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 August) — Communist rebels operating in Misamis Oriental have admitted responsibility for the killing of an Army soldier and a civilian during the fiesta celebration… »
Chopper crashes off Zamboanga City; 2 pilots missing
By Mindanews on August 18 2010 12:02 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/17 August) – Two pilots have remained missing after their chopper crashed this morning in the sea between the two islets of Santa Cruz in this city. A… »
Dureza’s security vehicle hits motorbike; driver killed
By Mindanews on August 18 2010 12:02 am
QUEZON, Bukidnon (MindaNews/17 August) – A security vehicle that accompanied Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) chair Jesus Dureza en route to the 1st Regional Media Conference in Malaybalay City, figured in… »
P12 hike for workers in R-10
By Walter I. Balane on August 15 2010 2:33 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 August) – Workers should expect their minimum daily wage to increase by at least P12 starting August 16, 2010, at least according to the latest wage order… »
Blast rocks Kidapawan City village
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on August 15 2010 2:30 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/14 August) — A grenade went off in a Moro-dominated village here while residents were preparing for the Ramadan or fasting, around 10 p.m., on Thursday. The grenade… »
Sarangani Gov to P-Noy, MILF: resume peace talks now
By Mindanews on August 13 2010 1:19 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 August) — Sarangani governor Miguel Rene Dominguez has called on both President Benigno S. Aquino III and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to “begin in earnest… »
‘Giant mushrooms’ in Midsayap a crowd drawer
By Froilan Gallardo on August 11 2010 12:01 am
MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato (MindaNews/10 August) — A colony of “giant mushrooms” has become a sensation in the small, sleepy village of Santo Nino in this town, drawing people from as… »
Old Maasim town hall burns
By Allen V. Estabillo on August 4 2010 12:04 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/03 August) — A huge fire razed to the ground early Tuesday the old municipal building of Maasim in Sarangani province, destroying several major government offices in… »
4 workers electrocuted in Talayan
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on August 4 2010 12:03 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/03 August) — Four workers who tried to erect an electric post mid-morning today in Talayan, Maguindanao were electrocuted upon contact with a GI pipe that was connected… »
Child warrior not ours – NPA
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on August 3 2010 12:01 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/02 August) – The Valentin Palamine Regional Operations Command of the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) has denied the minor allegedly being paraded recently by the Army in Magsaysay,… »
P-Noy to media: “May you give new meaning to the principles of your vocation”
By Mindanews on July 27 2010 12:18 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 July) – President Aquino appealed to the media in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) today to “police your own ranks” and “give new meaning to… »
Caraga pols realign, join P-Noy’s Liberal Party
By Alden Pantaleon on July 22 2010 12:03 am
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews) – A new political realignment in the Caraga region is shaping up as four of the six congressmen in four provinces have joined President Benigno Aquino III’s… »
Dirty polls behind Yusoph kidnapping
By Froilan Gallardo on July 21 2010 12:04 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 July) — It was all about the huge amount of bribe money that corrupted election officials who issued orders to cluster polling precincts to favored politicians during the last elections in May, military officers and poll watchdog groups said. The officers and NGO leaders told MindaNews that this was the reason why Nuraldin Yusoph, the 22-year-old son of poll Commissioner Elias Yusoph, was kidnapped in Marawi City.
Yusoph son narrates harrowing 29-day ordeal
By Froilan Gallardo on July 21 2010 12:02 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 July) — A day after his release in Cagayan de Oro, Nuraldin Yusoph finally narrated his harrowing experience in the hands of his abductors who… »
Alleged bomb materials seized in Tupi
By Allen V. Estabillo on July 19 2010 12:01 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/18 July) – Police claimed to have foiled a supposed terror attack timed for Sunday’s culmination of South Cotabato’s 44th foundation anniversary and 11th T’nalak Festival with the… »
CBCP's open letter on the hostage crisis
By Contributor on September 6 2010 10:08 pm
For us, Filipinos, 23 August 2010, now known all over the world as the “Philippine hostage crisis” will forever stand as a very dark day in our people’s history. On this fateful day, a former police officer hijacked a tour bus in Rizal Park, Manila, carrying 25 tourists from Hong Kong, including 5 Canadian nationals and 1 British. At the end of a ten hour negotiation and siege, 8 hostages and the hijacker lay dead. Finger pointing, investigations, damage control, continue to take place even now.