Posted in Governance, Mindanao, News, Peace Process, Philippines on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Malaysia’s decision to cease sending a peace monitoring team to Mindanao when the current team’s mandate ends in September, is due to non-progress in peace talks between the Philippines Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said this as quoted by Bernama.com.
He said in order for a [...]
Posted in ARMM, Agriculture, Business, Davao, Economy, Governance, Mindanao, News, Peace Process, Philippines on October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Mindanao traders are keen on seeing government putting up systems to prevent corruption rather than seeing suspects charged and convicted, an official of the Mindanao Business Council (MinBC) said.
Vicente Lao, MinBC chair, told a press conference for the road show here Friday of the multi-sectoral National Anti-Corruption Program for Action (NACPA), that businessmen have [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Bukidnon, Davao, Economy, Environment, Food in Mindanao, Food/Health Related, Governance, Health, Investments in Mindanao, Jobs in Mindanao, Justice, Local Governance, Mindanao, Mindanao Sports, Mindanao's communities, News, Safety on September 24, 2007 | No Comments »
The verdict is out: the court has upheld as valid and constitutional the city ordinance banning aerial spraying in plantations. In a decision dated September 22, Judge Renato Fuentes of Regional Trial Court Branch-17 junked the petition of the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) questioning the constitutionality of the ordinance, the [...]
Posted in Davao, Governance, Mindanao, Mindanao Media, Monologues, News, Philippines, Politics, Reflections, Updates on September 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
How I wish my news organization owned a chopper. Better yet, I wish teleporting is real.
The thing is, I can only dream about it while transfixed to a presidential chase today. The object of our chase probably didnot even know that we exist, more so that we were looking for her.
Right in the middle of [...]
Posted in ARMM, Agriculture, BIMP - EAGA, Business, Economy, Food in Mindanao, Governance, Investments in Mindanao, Jobs in Mindanao, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, News, Peace Process, Philippines, Security, Tourism, Travel and Transportation on August 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Business that is more responsive to the peace process in Mindanao is among the key issues to be discussed in the 6th Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Business Congress next month, an ARMM Business Council official said.
Bai Sandra Basar, president of the Muslim Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kutawato (Cotabato), [...]
Posted in Business, Davao, Economy, Events, Feasts in Mindanao, Governance, Mindanao, Music and Mindanao, News, Philippines, Tourism, Travel and Transportation on August 7, 2007 | 12 Comments »
All roads lead to Davao City for this year’s Kadayawan Festival. The whole month of August is festival fever in the city. Visitors from other places in Mindanao, the country and the world are expected to troop to Dabaw.
Organizers speak of this year’s focus on returning to the city’s indigenous ancestry. Will it bring in [...]
Posted in BIMP - EAGA, Davao, Elections in Mindanao, Governance, Human Rights, News, Philippines, Politics on July 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Because of the reported “unique way” of voting in Mindanao, the Commission on Elections has eyed pushing for the use of electoral colleges in primaries just like those used in the United States, Comelec officials said.
Comelec chair Benjamin Abalos announced the plan as part of what the commission is studying to approach the controversial elections [...]
Posted in Davao, Governance, Mindanao, News, Peace Process, Reflections, Security on July 24, 2007 | No Comments »
I couldn’t help but react right away upon reading reports from the national media about the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ reported “readiness” to possible spillover of violence in its punitive operations in Basilan.
GMANews.tv reported that Philippine military chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr mouthed that government security forces have been pre-positioned to avert any possible [...]
Posted in Business, Davao, Economy, Environment, Every Day Mindanao, Investments in Mindanao, Mindanao, News, Peace Process on July 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
DAVAO CITY – Amid brewing tension in the now shaky peace
process, Security Bank Corporation, with eight branches in Mindanao,
is bullish on the island’s fast growth as local and international
investments pour in, bank officials said.
William Whang, senior vice president and head of SBC’s branch banking group, told reporters in a press conference at The Marco Polo [...]
Posted in ARMM, Agriculture, BIMP - EAGA, Bukidnon, Business, Davao, Economy, Education, Every Day Mindanao, Food in Mindanao, Governance, Human Rights, Justice, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, News, Peace Process, Philippines, Politics, Safety, Security, Technology, Travel and Transportation on July 23, 2007 | No Comments »
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 July) — President Arroyo made Mindanao the front
act in her seventh state of the nation address (SONA) Monday afternoon,
promising 30% of the budgets of the Agriculture, Agrarian Reform and
Environment departments for the country’s second largest island grouping.
Arroyo listed third among her three priorities in the next three years,
“investments in bringing [...]
Posted in ARMM, Agriculture, BIMP - EAGA, Bukidnon, Business, Davao, Economy, Fisheries Industry in Mindanao, Food in Mindanao, Governance, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, News, People Power, Philippines, Politics, Safety, Security, Tourism on July 22, 2007 | No Comments »
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 July) — The new leadership of the Philippine
Chamber of Commerce and Industry has recently asked the Davao City Chamber
of Commerce and Industry to rejoin the Manila-based national business group,
an official of the chamber said.
Sebastian Angliongto, DCCCII lifetime chair, said in an interview with
MindaNews Thursday new PCCI president Samuel Lim asked the chamber [...]
Posted in ARMM, Crime, Davao, Governance, Human Rights, Justice, Looking Back, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, News, Peace Process, People Power, Philippines, Religious, Safety, Security on July 22, 2007 | No Comments »
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 July) — What happened to Italian priest Fr.
Giancarlo Bossi should not happen again as foreign missionaries are giving
great service to the people especially in Mindanao, the Catholic Bishops’
Conference of the Philippines said in a statement posted on its website
Saturday.
The statement came two days after Bossi was released in what reports said
was a [...]
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