4 LP coordinators wounded in Basilan explosion

ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/06 May) – Four Liberal Party (LP) coordinators were wounded when an improvised bomb exploded near the mayor’s house late Sunday evening in Lamitan City in Basilan, officials… »

ARMM is poorest region in 2012 but poverty incidence dropped in island provinces

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 April) –   The five-province, two-city Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) posted the highest poverty incidence among families in the country’s 17 regions nationwide in 2012,  with… »

Evacuees from Sabah: 750 new arrivals; total 5,189 since March 6

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 March) –  The number of evacuees from Sabah since March 6 has reached 5,189 as of 5 p.m. on April 1 or 750 more arrivals from the… »

Evacuees from Sabah: 4,439

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 March) –  The number of evacuees who have arrived from Sabah since March 6 has reached 4,439 as of 11 a.m. on March 27, more than twice… »

Nationwide ‘payao’ deployment for municipal fishing starts

BASILAN STRAIT (MindaNews/09 March)– The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) launched here Saturday the nationwide deployment of fish aggregating devices or payaos for small fishermen operating within the… »

IMT Site 3 members get awards from WestMinCom

ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/27 February) – The Western Mindanao Command (WestMinCom) has awarded Bronze Cross Medals to the seven-man International Monitoring Team (IMT) Site 3 in recognition for their acts of… »

PHILSOUTH LINE: Philippine military blunders and the Metropolitan Churva-ness on Mindanao

ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/30 July) – Perhaps, the Philippine military have yet to realize that for every blunder they commit, reporting the death of even a soldier, they project themselves further… »

Abu Sayyaf kills 7, injures 18 rubber plantation workers in Basilan ambush

ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/11 July) – Seven rubber plantation workers were killed while 18 others were wounded in an early morning ambush today in the municipality of Sumisip in the island… »

Canopy

CANOPY. Vast rubber plantations in the outskirts of Isabela City provide a natural canopy for a road network connecting different barangays. Rubber is one of the primary products of the… »

Basilan Power Barge

POWER BARGE. A banca passes by a power barge stationed in Isabela City in Basilan on May 9, 2012. Cut off from mainland Mindanao, Basilan relies on this power barge… »

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