Posted in Business, Education, Environment, Governance, Human Rights, Investments in Mindanao, Local Governance, Lumads and Mindanao, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, Peace Process, Philippines, Reflections, Religious on November 29, 2007 | No Comments »
For the ninth time this year, the Bishops-Ulama Conference has held on to the ground by leading the celebrations for the Mindanao Week of Peace (MWOP).
The BUC adopted Zamboanga City’s Peace Week and made it Mindanao-wide in 1999.
For almost a decade, the peace weeks have been opportunities for “peace weavers” to reflect on the need [...]
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Leaders and educators in Mindanao of the world’s two leading faiths should not stop educating their followers on interfaith understanding “to remove the clutters of misconception” from even among their followers.
“The effort should be vice versa, on both sides,” Aleem Jamal Munib, an official of the Davao City Madrasah Development Program, told MindaNews.
“This is very [...]
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A world renowned US programmer would be in town next week for a free workshop on Java Script, an important program on developing website and accessing objects embedded in other Internet applications.
Thom Parker, touted as one of the top three world experts on JavaScript, would offer a free workshop at Felis Seminar Resort on Friday [...]
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Posted in Davao, Education, Food/Health Related, Governance, Health, Jobs in Mindanao, Justice, Local Governance, Mindanao, Social Security on November 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A mixture of her difficulty in coping with poverty, emotional problems, and her youthful innocence killed the 12-year-old grade schooler, a social worker said.
Grade 6 pupil Marianeth Amper, who committed suicide in the afternoon of All Souls’ Day in a room of their house in the sloping hills in Maa, has caught the national limelight [...]
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The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting threw in their take on the recent noise at the Commission on Elections.
PPCRV saw something fishy in the alleged lack of transparency in the selection process with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s appointment of Iligan City judge Moslemen Macarambon, Sr. Read the MindaNews story here.
The poll watchdog making noise [...]
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In principle, I believe the commitments sought here as proposed on Saturday are OK. There could be other matters to be discussed but maybe its wise to raise them later.
I believe that the first response to the challenge of Paring Bert Alejo’s propositions in his presentation could be to pen down our signature. I believe [...]
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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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DELAYED BLOGCAST: Last Monday I had a very long lunch with two friends, MC of the Business Mirror and blogosphere’s Mr. Clean Slate, Mo, who also writes for Manila Standard Today.
Time with Mo is time to update about sports. He breathes sporting fire in the city. Not that he is the only one I know. [...]
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Many things kept me busy in the past few days. Evidently, I have not updated this blog regularly. That doesn’t mean, however, that I have a drought of stories or issues and concerns to blog about. I assure you there are hundreds of stories worth writing for news and for tell-tale sake.
After our MindaNews team [...]
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Around 150 information technology educators will meet here this week as part of the effort to upgrade IT education in Mindanao’s schools, colleges and universities to catch up
with the needs of the industry.
Edwin Marañon, Southeastern Mindanao chair of the Philippine Society
of IT Educators (PSITE), told MindaNews in an interview that upgrading
IT curriculum and sharing of [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Crime, Economy, Education, Governance, Human Rights, Human Rights in Mindanao, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, Peace Process, Philippines on September 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The bright young eyes of eleven year old Rasmia Kasim is looking at the playground of J. Marquez Elementary School.
From her classroom in suburban Cotabato City, she could see children her age busy playing in the sunny afternoon.
After a gleeful good bye song for classmates and their teacher,
she quickly [...]
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