DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 26 November) – Joint police and Army operatives engaged suspected New People’s Army rebels in a firefight at around 1:30am Monday in Purok 10, Talomo Cemento, Talomo District, Davao City. The rebels belong to the NPA Special Partisan Unit and were staying at the now abandoned Victorio Beach Resort, Chief Supt. Marcelo […]
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/ 26 November) – Agriculture Undersecretary Bai Ranibai Dilangalen today filed her substitute certificate of candidacy (COC) as representative of the first district of Maguindanao, which includes Cotabato City. Dilangalen, a lawyer, filed her substitute COC at the office of Maguindanao election supervisor Atty. Paisalin Tago. The DA official replaced the candidacy of […]
Pad Thai for dinner. #thaifood #asianfood #comfortfood #travel #tourist #brisbane #australia #aussieadventures #food #foodporn (at P’Nut Street Noodles South Bank)
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 26 November) – At least 17 children were reported to have died in several remote communities in Malapatan town in Sarangani Province in the last three weeks due to a suspected measles outbreak. Dr. Diomedes Remitar, Malapatan Municipal Health Office (MHO) chief, said Monday the victims, which included infants, reportedly died […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 26 November) – The driver of a speeding vehicle drowned after missing the access ramp of a ferryboat bound for Davao City at a seaport in Barangay Kinawitnon, Babak District in Island Garden City of Samal, at about 8:30 p.m. on Sunday. A report released by Police Regional Office 11 identified the […]
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 26 November) – Five alleged New People’s Army (NPA) rebels have surrendered to government troops in Kiamba town, Sarangani Province following a series of operations. Lt. Col. Jones Otida, commanding officer of the Army’s 27th Infantry Battalion, said Monday the rebels yielded voluntarily along with their firearms to their unit last […]
Australia looks like the surface of some planet in the galaxy far, far away. #travel #australianoutback #australia #tourist
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Australia looks like the surface of some planet in the galaxy far, far away. #travel #australianoutback #australia #tourist
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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 November) — The funding requirement to make Marawi City “bangon” (rise) by end of 2021 is P64.58 billion pesos but how much of this amount has been raised and how much is set to be raised during the pledging session here on November 28? Housing Secretary and Task Force Bangon […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 Nov) — An Army official has expressed full support to President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to revive the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program and making it mandatory for Grades 11 and 12 senior high school students in private and public schools nationwide. “Let me take this opportunity to ask Congress […]
Certain chat messages attributed to a fraternity have recently been circulating online. The said exchanges contain messages that sow hate on groups inside and outside the campus. We, the UP Muslim Students’ Association, join the different voices in the university in condemning, in the strongest possible terms, the mentality perpetuated in these conversations. We are […]
A child mimics the adults during a training session on hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by the Iligan Society of Internists Sunday (25 Nov. 18). MindaNews photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 24 November) — The government will look into possible undelivered assistance and other benefits pledged or promised for the families of the slain media workers in the gruesome Nov. 23, 2009 Ampatuan massacre. Undersecretary Joel Egco, executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS), said in a […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 24 November) -– The proposed ordinance that seeks to ban barricades along roads will curtail the freedom of the people to freedom of expression, Karapatan-Southern Mindanao spokesperson Jay Apiag said on Thursday. “This ordinance proposed by Councilor Mabel Sunga Acosta that bans road blocks during rallies and protest actions clearly violates the Constitutional right of […]
Mushroom and pea masala over heaping of basmati rice. #plantbaseddiet #plantbased #vegan #vegetarian #comfortfood #indianfood #asianfood #foodporn #food #curry
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AMPATUAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews / 23 Nov) – Exactly nine years ago today, the worst election-related violence in the Philippines and the single deadliest attack against media workers anywhere else stunned and made headlines around the world. Fifty-eight people, including 32 media workers, were mangled, some beyond recognition, by the powerful firearms of gunmen who tried […]
AMPATUAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews / 23 Nov) – Maguindanao and Malacañang officials are convinced the culprits in the country’s worst election related violence will be convicted and that justice is coming. Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu, Presidential Communications chief Martin Andanar and Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) director Undersecretary Joel Egco were all optimistic and […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 Nov) — “What allegations of corruption?” former Undersecretary Millar, Secretary-General of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) and head the TFBM secretariat, asked Friday morning, hours after President Rodrigo Duterte announced he fired him due to corruption. “I just wanted to have some personal space at the moment. […]
Tomato and basil soup. I couldn’t resist asking the chef how it’s cooked. Surprisingly, he told me the recipe. #foodporn #food #worldcuisine #soup
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 23 Nov) – At least 9,070 private contractual workers in Region 12 have been granted regular status this year by their employers as a result of the government’s crackdown against illegal labor contracting practices. Sisinio Cano, regional director of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-Region 12, said Thursday these […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 Nov) – A four-story 24/7 public library worth P40 million will open in Davao City next year, Vice Mayor Bernard Alag said. Alag said in an interview at the sidelines of the opening day of the 10-day Big Bad Wolf at The Tent in Azuela Cove on Thursday that the […]
23 November 2018 By the Freedom for Media, Freedom for All Network Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, Philippine Press Institute (PPI), MindaNews, and Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) ATTACKS AND THREATS against the Philippine media — acute and creeping, online and offline, deadly and debilitating […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 Nov) — Fired or resigned? President Rodrigo Duterte announced on Thursday afternoon that he had just fired “a certain Millar,” the Secretary-General of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), for alleged corruption but HUDCC Undesecretary Falconi Ace Millar, a lawyer and certified public accountant, claimed he was a […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 22 Nov.) – The agreements signed between the Philippines and China during the two-day visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the country included expressway and bridge projects for Davao Region and Marawi City. Xi and President Rodrigo Duterte signed a total of 29 deals formalizing cooperation or assistance on infrastructure, oil […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 November) – At least 99 cases of attacks and threats online and on ground against the Philippine media across the nation have been recorded in the first 28 months of the Duterte administration, 12 of these killings, seven of them in Mindanao, according to the latest State of Philippine Media […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 November) – Social development worker Mae Fe Templa who was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as Undersecretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the early days of his administration, was one of three undersecretaries fired following the assumption of retired Army Chief Lt. Gen. Rolando Bautista […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 Nov) — The Ateneo de Davao University will confer on former hostage Fr. Teresito “Chito” Soganub the Archbishop Clovis Thibault Award during the Commencement Exercises in April next year. The Board of Trustees of the ADDU said the 58-year old Soganub, Vicariate-General of the Prelature of Marawi and long-time chaplain […]
One of my favorite architectural structures in Warsaw framed by a statue of a soldier on a horse. #architecture #Warsaw #Europe #ThrowbackThursday #Poland #travel (at Warsaw, Poland)
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by Patrick van Wersch Just two years ago, Datu Ibrahim Paglas Memorial College (DIPMC) in Maguindanao had a single sports team. This year, they started the academic year with 10. DIPMC’s sports director, 26-year old Al Rashid Sendad, points to the influence of the Mindanao Peace Games <https://sportphil.com/seeing-mindanao-peace-games-mission-vision/> (MPG)—a Mindanao-wide movement of schools and universities […]
