By Malu Cadelina-Manar on June 19 2013 7:10 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 19 June) – Mayor Lani Candolada of Tulunan, North Cotabato has urged the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to withdraw its forces now positioned in several areas that used… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on June 19 2013 2:18 pm
PRESIDENT ROXAS, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 19 June) – A policeman was shot to death early today after handing a search warrant to a family here known for carrying unlicensed firearms.… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on June 3 2013 6:52 pm
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 3 June) – The series of earthquakes that struck North Cotabato province since Saturday damaged infrastructures worth at least P60 million, with Monday’s opening of classes suspended in… »
By Keith Bacongco on June 2 2013 2:22 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 June) – The magnitude 5.7 earthquake late Saturday night injured five persons, four of them children and partly destroyed 30 concrete houses and other infrastructure in Carmen,… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on May 30 2013 2:29 pm
TULUNAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 30 May) – The mayor of the municipality of Tulunan in North Cotabato accused the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) of violating the ceasefire agreement it… »
By Keith Bacongco on May 29 2013 7:20 pm
CARMEN, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 29 May) – North Cotabato Governor Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza has asked the military on Wednesday to intervene in the row between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on May 18 2013 12:15 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/18 May) – A power outage totaling 24 hours hit the area serviced by the Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Cotelco) starting 11 p.m. Thursday, with an official saying the… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on May 15 2013 12:20 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 15 May) – A seven-month-old baby died while her mother was wounded when a grenade lobbed at their rooftop in Kabacan, North Cotabato exploded dawn today. Supt.… »
By Keith Bacongco on May 15 2013 7:32 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 May) – Former Cotabato governor Emmanuel Piñol had conceded defeat Tuesday afternoon to incumbent Governor Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza. Piñol, however, said his rival won by giving away rice… »
By Ruby Thursday More on May 13 2013 5:51 pm
Wafa Mabang, 48, uses the flashlight in her mobile phone to help her choose her candidates as she casts her vote at the Talitay Elementary School in Pikit, North Cotabato… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on May 9 2013 2:48 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 9 May) – Close to 1,000 protesters from at least 40 civil society groups in North Cotabato barricaded on Thursday the streets leading to the Mindanao sub-office of the… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on April 30 2013 6:00 pm
BANISILAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/30 April) – A candidate for councilor in Banisilan, North Cotabato was shot dead Sunday night after a campaign rally in the town center, a police official… »
By H. Marcos C. Mordeno on April 28 2013 12:34 am
Visitors enjoy the cool waters of Asik-asik Falls in Sitio Dulao, Barangay Dado, Alamada town, North Cotabato on April 27, 2013. Turned into an attraction starting last year by the municipal government, the… »
By Keith Bacongco on April 3 2013 10:00 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/3 April)– The provincial government of North Cotabato is exploring hydro and solar power as alternative energy sources to address the supply shortage in the province in the… »
By Keith Bacongco on March 29 2013 5:17 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/29 March) — He was once a target for assassination, was arrested thrice and has been a recipient of death threats for taking the side of indigenous peoples… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on March 20 2013 10:04 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 20 March) – Businessmen and power consumers in North Cotabato are again bracing for longer brownouts as one of the units of the privately-owned diesel-fired power plants… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on March 8 2013 7:15 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/ 08 March) – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has placed seven of the 29 villages in Tulunan, North Cotabato as poll hotspot areas allegedly due to the… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on March 2 2013 8:19 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/01 March) – Six persons died—five of them passengers of a pubic transport utility van—and 10 others were wounded in a three-vehicle collision along the highway in Pikit,… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on February 23 2013 1:06 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/ 22 February)—Police and environment officials in Makilala, North Cotabato seized a truckload of illegal lumber aboard a government-owned truck at around 11 p.m. Thursday. Walter Ruizo, Makilala… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on February 14 2013 8:00 am
KABACAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 13 Feb) – Thirteen cops, all assigned at the Cotabato Provincial Police Office (CPP0), were injured when they engaged in a scuffle rallyists outside the… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on February 8 2013 6:44 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/7 February)—Police in North Cotabato filed Thursday murder complaints against two of the alleged killers of Kabacan Vice Mayor Policronio Dulay. Sr. Insp. Rodel Calo, head of the… »
By Ruby Thursday More on February 4 2013 7:21 am
Churchgoers light candles after mass at the Santo Niño Parish in Midsayap, North Cotabato on Sunday. MindaNews photo by Ruby Thursday More
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on February 1 2013 7:33 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (Mindanews / 31 Jan) – Members of the Multi-Stakeholders Movement for Peace, Truth, and Reforms continue to control the state-owned University of Southern Mindanao (USM) in Kabacan, North… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on January 21 2013 9:57 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/ 21 January)– The bounty to arrest the killers of Vice Mayor Pol Dulay of Kabacan, North Cotabato is now P600,000. North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Mendoza said during… »
By Mindanews on January 11 2013 9:30 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/ 11 January) – The vice mayor of Kabacan town in North Cotabato, Policronio Dulay, was killed by an unidentified gunman at around 2:45 p.m. Friday, a police… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on January 11 2013 12:00 am
In Region 12, quality of life better in South Cotabato KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/ 10 January)—Quality of life is better for people living in South Cotabato than the three other provinces… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on January 8 2013 7:39 am
MAKILALA, North Cotabato (MindaNews/07 January) – The provincial government of North Cotabato will open historical Fort Pikit in Pikit town on Tuesday (January 8) as a new tourism destination. The… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on January 4 2013 9:57 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 3 Jan) – The police city director here will be replaced Friday, following the fate of his former immediate superior, the provincial director, in what many… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on December 29 2012 10:45 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/ 29 December) – A senior Philippine National Police (PNP) official in Southwestern Mindanao (Region 12) blamed politics for the reshuffling of police officers in North Cotabato. On… »
By Mindanews on December 23 2012 8:46 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/22 December)—North Cotabato is Southwestern Mindanao or SOCCSKSARGEN Region’s top mango producer, Department of Agriculture (DA) officials said. Ellen Lantican, a staff of the regional DA’s High Value… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on December 21 2012 8:58 am
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/20 December) – “Noon, kami ang palaging tinutulungan. Kami naman ngayon ang tutulong” (We were always given assistance before. Now it’s our turn to help). Officials… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on November 11 2012 5:00 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 Nov) – The military and the police are either clueless about the existence of the Bagani armed group in Arakan, North Cotabato, or just turning… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on November 9 2012 3:32 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/09 November) – Authorities raided a marijuana plantation Thursday in a remote village in Magpet, North Cotabato, leading to the arrest of two persons, a police official said.… »
By Contributor on October 30 2012 10:39 pm
Philippine Azkals Roel Gener and Nestorio Margarse with Ashley Marie O’Connor of Malditas teach the kids of Aleosan, North Cotabato some techniques in football. OPAPP Photo
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on October 26 2012 1:22 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/ 26 October)—Flashfloods spawned by typhoon “Ofel” killed two persons, including a 70-year old woman, in Tulunan, North Cotabato on Thursday, officials said on Friday. Another one remained… »
By Keith Bacongco on October 24 2012 7:27 am
PIGCAWAYAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/24 October) – During our elementary years, going to the beach was one of the most precious escapades that we enjoyed. It’s because the nearest beach is… »
By Erwin Mascariñas on October 24 2012 6:26 am
MUNICIPAL HALL. This is not a shopping mall but the municipal hall of Carmen municipality in North Cotabato. This municipal hall has a functional escalator to serve its residents and… »
By Erwin Mascariñas on October 22 2012 9:16 pm
HARVEST. A resident plucks out a corn cob from her farm in Barangay Malapag, Carmen town in North Cotabato. MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas
By Ruby Thursday More on October 22 2012 9:15 pm
“It’s not just a matter of making peace within the bounds of Bangsamoro entity, but we also need to ensure that there is peace outside of the Bangsamoro entity,” said… »
By Keith Bacongco on October 22 2012 12:18 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 October) – I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have witnessed and documented the most historic event for Mindanao, the signing of the Framework Agreement on… »
By Keith Bacongco on October 19 2012 1:50 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/19 Oct) – While most people’s last will and testament talks about the transfer of their wealth or properties on this Earth to other people, there’s no such… »
By Keith Bacongco on August 26 2012 5:39 am
PIKIT, North Cotabato(MindaNews/25 August) – Most villagers in a refugee camp here are no longer strangers to evacuation. They have “mastered” the art of evacuation even if tensions are still… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on July 22 2012 8:05 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/ 21 July)—An official of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom) has called on the alleged victims of human rights violations in the recent… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on July 21 2012 3:20 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/20 July)—Two minors and their uncle came out in public yesterday to prove that children have been used as “guides” during a recent military operation in Magpet, North… »
By Ruby Thursday More on July 9 2012 10:49 pm
KABACAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/09 July) — Purok Malimo in the small village of Cuyapon here was abuzz. Women were busy preparing food, men were busy fixing up the stage, and children clad in their abayas and kopias, and some in togas were milling around, excited for one of the most important events of their lives: graduation day.
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on June 7 2012 11:16 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/7 June) – Two loan applicants from North Cotabato trooped to the office of the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), a non-government organization, after they received demand letters… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on May 17 2012 7:15 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/16 May) — A former congressman of North Cotabato has filed a P2.4-million damage suit against his successor, Rep. Nancy Catamco, her brother, and a supporter for allegedly… »
By Mindanews on May 17 2012 7:03 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 May) — Police rescued three girls from prostitution but the alleged pimp managed to escape during the entrapment operation in Digos City, Davao del Sur yesterday. Senior… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on May 4 2012 6:42 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/03 May) – The eight-hour rotating daily brownouts in North Cotabato caused by the power shortage in Mindanao have resulted in backlogs of cases at the local courts,… »
