The Central Mindanao Newswatch, Bukidon’s local newspaper, is launching this week its online journal Bukidnon Newswatch Online.
This is the paper’s second attempt to put up a blog for the community newspaper based in Malaybalay City.
This try was triggered by a recent mechanical problem, which delayed the release of the week’s issue. The paper received constant [...]
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Thanks to all who sent messages to my Kamuyot bag.
Ma’am Prix (and to all who are unfamiliar with it), Kamuyot is Bukidnon’s version of the tinalak. It’s made of sinamay from abaca fiber, from plantations scattered in Bukidnon’s rugged terrain. Of course, its woven mostly by indigenous women who sell it to buyers from the [...]
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From now on, Istambay sa Mindanao will be blogging from Malaybalay City, Bukidnon still in Mindanao, Southern Philippines.
I’m back to my home province Bukidnon and on my day one as editor of Malaybalay’s Central Mindanao Newswatch.
Actually I’m just a consultant to the 19-year old weekly paper. From 2000 to 2004, I worked as a full [...]
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Posted in BIMP - EAGA, Blogging and Bukidnon, Bukidnon, Business, Economy, Environment, Investments in Mindanao, Lumads and Mindanao, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Mining in Mindanao, Philippines on October 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There’s a lot of talk about rich gold deposits in Pantaron Mountain Range in San Fernando, Bukidnon. All these gold panning stuff we hear from treasure hunters tickled our imagination over the years.
This time, however, it has become official. The government started to include Bukidnon’s mining potentials in its marketing presentations to foreign investors. Read [...]
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Posted in Blogging and Bukidnon, Blogging and Mindanao, Crime, Davao, Economy, Education, Governance, Indifgenous Peoples, Local Governance, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, Peace Process, Philippines on October 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Online journal writers or bloggers from Mindanao were urged to go beyond writing about personal matters and instead use their internet platform to help promote peace and understanding in Mindanao.
Speaking to at least 60 bloggers at the opening ceremonies of the 1st Mindanao Bloggers’ Summit, organizers and resource speakers took turns in urging bloggers to [...]
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(A Personal Essay)
It’s still a world of instant coffee.
A friend from academia dropped a message in my inbox to ask for an online chat via Yahoo Messenger or Google Chat. I was surprised since the last contact we made was two years ago in a UP e-group.
He said as a journalist I could give him [...]
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This week Bukidnon Reporter blog will be online.
It should be both a formal and informal current events journal focused on Bukidnon, geographically at the heart of and along the crossroads of Mindanao.
This will mark my homecoming to the province. Starting in the first week of November, I will be based, again, in Malaybalay City, for [...]
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