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Hot air balloons fiesta in NCC, a flop?
Hot air balloons fiesta in NCC, a flop?.....»»
Sinulog: hot and poorly organized
Sinulog: hot and poorly organized.....»»
Sinulog at SRP ‘hot, poorly organized’
Sinulog at SRP ‘hot, poorly organized’.....»»
Instead of breaking pencils to ward off bad luck, MSU-GenSan examinees donate them to IP school
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 28 February) – The usual breaking of pencils after an examination did not happen to about a thousand examinees who took the recent qualifying examinations at the Mindanao State University (MSU) here. The traditional pencil-breaking practice was meant to ward off bad spells and bring good prospects to examinees, Mherzel […].....»»
Paypa wins ABF silver title with 1st round knockout in Bangkok
CEBU CITY, Philippines— Former ALA Boxing Gym prospect Jimmy “Popeye” Paypa shook off the rust with a first-round knockout, winning the Asian Boxing Federation (ABF) silver welterweight title in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday, May 30. Paypa, who hadn’t fought since 2018, stunned hometown favorite Campee Phayom with his first-round knockout win to earn the ABF title,.....»»
Laughing it off
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted that he smoked marijuana even after becoming a member of parliament. In 2018 under his leadership, Canada legalized cannabis, including cultivation and recreational use, becoming the second country to do so after Uruguay......»»
Drop Cha-Cha bid ‘and everything will be heaven tomorrow,’ Duterte tells Marcos
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 31 January)— Former president Rodrigo Duterte said “everything will be heaven tomorrow” and “happy days are here again” if President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. drops “like a hot potato” attempts to change the 1987 Constitution through People’s Initiative. Duterte, in a press conference Tuesday night at the Grand Men Seng hotel, also […].....»»
BSP logs 40K complaints relating to financial consumer protection; only 5% come from Mindanao
SINCE the effectivity of the Financial Consumer Protection Act (Republic Act 11765) in June 2022, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has logged more than 40,000 complaints from customers of different BSP-supervised financial institutions from all over the Philippines. Of this number, only around 5 percent come from Mindanao, implying the Mindanaoans' unawareness of the law......»»
Campaigns for Mindanao s independence already settled
House lawmakers on Tuesday bucked the recent calls by former President Rodrigo Duterte to secede Mindanao from the country, saying that the lengthy peace processes undertaken by Mindanaoans through the years have “already settled” the matter of the region’s autonomy......»»
Philippines: More than one million children in Muslim Mindanao need protection from highly infectious measles spread
COTABATO/MANILA, 28 March 2024 - A major immunization drive in early April will reach over 1.3 million children in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) following the alarming surge in measles cases with 77 per cent of the confirmed cases in the Philippines being reported from this region.From the 1st until 12th April, health workers will provide lifesaving vaccines to prot.....»»
Mindanao-flavored JGFP Interschool Finals set Friday
To make it all the more competitive and in the spirit of inclusivity, the Junior Golf Foundation of the Philippines (JGFP) National Finals will be graced by champions in the recent Mindanao Open......»»
Duterte mulls PI for Mindanao secession
After accusing President Marcos of being behind the people’s initiative signature campaign to change the Constitution, former president Rodrigo Duterte has put forward the idea of Mindanao seceding from the rest of the Philippines......»»
NGCP holds ceremonial switch-on for P51 billion Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection
The completion of the 450-megawatt Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines will unlock enormous socio-economic opportunities in the two regions, President Marcos said yesterday......»»
Power rates expected to rise because of El Niño
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 January)—Expect possible increasing power rates throughout the year amid the anticipated El Niño phenomenon in the country, an official from the Department of Energy (DOE)-Mindanao said. Engr. Darwin P. Galang, DOE-Mindanao senior science research specialist, said the anticipated increasing power rates can be possibly El Niño-related, with 26 percent of […].....»»
‘No longer Mindanao del Norte, at war’
From being adversaries, soldiers and combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front are now allies in ensuring the success of the peace process in Mindanao as members of the joint peace and security committee......»»
‘No reason for pork price surge in Visayas, Mindanao’
There is no reason for the spike in retail prices of pork in the Visayas and Mindanao, as the prevailing live weight cost is only P180 per kilo, farmers’ group Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura said over the weekend......»»
Mindanao railway project up for NEDA review
The government is evaluating anew the Mindanao Railway project to update costs and potential ridership, with the possibility of shifting financing mode to include the private sector, instead of purely loans......»»
53 Mindanao lawmakers oppose secession
Describing it as a “step backward,” 53 of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s congressmen-friends in Mindanao have signed a manifesto in the House of Representatives rejecting his call for the secession of the whole region from the entire country......»»
ROW process for Mindanao railway underway
The government is focused on securing right-of-way for the Mindanao Railway project for the meantime as it has yet to find a new funding source for the infrastructure......»»
After a failed bid for a Federal Philippines, Duterte now wants an independent Mindanao
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 31 January) – After a failed bid to change the 1987 Constitution and shift to a Federal Philippines during his six-year Presidency, former President Rodrigo Duterte now wants an independent Mindanao. It will not be a bloody separation from the Philippines and they would go all the way to the United […].....»»