By Bong S. Sarmiento on March 11 2013 6:48 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 11 March) – The detailed design and engineering studies for the proposed $806-million coal-fired power plant that would supply the needs of the controversial Tampakan… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on January 31 2013 6:49 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 January) – Another member of a tribal clan opposing the Tampakan copper-gold project of Sagittarius Mines, Inc. was killed in an alleged encounter with the military. Capt.… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on November 12 2012 2:57 pm
Last of two parts TAMPAKAN, South Cotabato (MindaNews/12 Nov) —Potentially the largest foreign direct investment in the Philippines, the $5.9 billion Tampakan mining project faces two major challenges: the ban… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on November 6 2012 12:43 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 06 November) —The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) wants to exhume the bodies of the mother and her two sons who were killed in the mines… »
By Edwin G. Espejo on November 1 2012 9:00 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/1 Nov) — South Cotabato Gov. Arthur Pingoy on Wednesday said he is no longer pursuing a review of the environmental impact study (EIS) of Sagittarius Mines,… »
By H. Marcos C. Mordeno on October 25 2012 8:14 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/25 October) – Civilians should not become the objects of attacks. This is the crux of International Humanitarian Law or IHL, the law governing the conduct of both… »
By Edwin G. Espejo on October 24 2012 4:16 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/23 October) — The two children who survived an alleged massacre last week in a village in Kiblawan, Davao del Sur, including their grandmother and two aunts,… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on October 23 2012 11:17 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 October) — Several progressive groups here vowed to help seek justice for a B’laan mother and her two sons who were killed in an alleged massacre in… »
By Edwin G. Espejo on October 23 2012 6:39 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/23 October) — The two children who survived an alleged massacre last week in a village in Kiblawan, Davao del Sur, including their grandmother and two aunts,… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on October 22 2012 5:23 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 October) – The deaths of a B’laan mother and her two sons last October 18 in an alleged encounter in a village of Kimlawis, Kiblawan, Davao del… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on October 21 2012 6:50 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY(MindaNews/ 20 October) — The provincial government of South Cotabato has started the preparatory works for the planned independent review by German experts of the environmental impact statement… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on October 19 2012 7:28 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 19 October)—The commander of the 27th Infantry Battalion (IB) and his men involved in the operation that killed a mother and her two sons in the mines… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on October 18 2012 1:02 pm
KORONADAL CITY(MindaNews / 18 October) – A mother and her two children were killed early Thursday morning in the mines development site of foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc. following an encounter… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on April 26 2012 8:26 am
TAMPAKAN, South Cotabato — Members of a multi-sectoral fact-finding mission who trooped to the mines development site of foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines Inc. on Wednesday to check alleged military abuses in… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on April 22 2012 1:12 pm
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/22 April) — Hundreds of protesters flocked to Tampakan, South Cotabato to mark Earth Day on Sunday morning only to be blocked before they could march in the… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on September 4 2011 7:33 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/03 September) — South Cotabato Gov. Arthur Pingoy Jr. has signed an agreement for a tree planting project with Sagittarius Mines, Inc., operator of the Tampakan copper-gold project… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on July 29 2011 10:48 pm
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/29 July) — Plenary action on requests to amend the controversial environment code that bans open-pit mining may drag longer as members of the South Cotabato Sangguniang Panlalawigan… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on March 29 2011 12:20 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/28 March) – One of the worst fears expressed years back by the local Catholic Church over the massive Tampakan copper-gold project of foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc –… »
By Mindanews on November 4 2010 7:42 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/3 Nov) — The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of South Cotabato will be conducting a preliminary hearing to listen to opposing views on the province’s controversial environment code that bans… »
