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WEB2 days ago — Laborers load blocks of ice into an outrigger docked at Sta. Ana Port in Davao City on Sunday (19 May 2024). The ice will be transported to nearby Talicud Island in Davao del Norte. MindaNews photo
ANGAY-ANGAY LANG: The National Cultural Minorities of …
WEBMar 25, 2021 — ANGAY-ANGAY LANG: The National Cultural Minorities of Mindanao and Sulu. A preliminary study (2) 2nd of seven parts. Historical Background. It cannot be overemphasized that once upon a time Mindanaw and Sulu were inhabited solely by people who, now, through no fault of their own, constitute a dispossessed, underprivileged and suffering minority.
Lanao Norte folk remember fears, hardships caused by war
WEBFeb 22, 2019 — DELABAYAN, Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/22 February) — This small community is still trying to overcome lingering fears caused by armed conflict and are hoping for a better future. Eighteen years after ousted president Joseph Estrada’s all-out war in 2000 against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), residents here still ...
Ex-PSG chief tagged as mastermind in killing of entrepreneur-model
WEBDAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 Jan) – Brig. Gen. Jesus P. Durante III, former Presidential Security Group (PSG) commander who now heads the 1001st Infantry Brigade, has been named as the mastermind behind the killing of entrepreneur Yvonnette Chua Plaza outside her rented house at Green Meadows Subdivision in Barangay Santo Niño, Tugbok District here on December 29, 2022.
On the island of Camiguin, a volcano is coming back to life
WEBMay 19, 2022. 2:45 pm. CAMIGUIN (MindaNews / 19 May) — On the island of Camiguin in Mindanao, a volcano is coming back to life. Though she hasn’t erupted in 70 years, Mt. Hibok-Hibok has been especially quiet lately. From March 2020 to November 2021, the Timpoong Hibok-Hibok Natural Monument hosted exactly zero visitors.
ANGAY-ANGAY LANG: The Lumads are Our People, Too! (4)
WEBApr 12, 2021 — Part 4 of 7: A Quick Historical Overview of the Resettlement Process in Mindanaw (Editor’s note: This article is a slight revision of the lectures the author delivered between the years 1999 and 2000 to two major audiences — the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility in Metro Manila and the Bishops-Ulama Forum, now known as Bishops-Ulama Conference, in Davao City.)
Sara Duterte: the med student who moved to law school is now …
WEBJun 19, 2022 — Sara Duterte: the med student who moved to law school is now Vice President. DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 18 June) – The first time Sara Zimmerman Duterte heard her father, Rodrigo Roa Duterte, declare “I’m proud of you” was 11 years ago, on July 3, 2011, when she was 33 and on her first term as …
ALPSIDE DOWNED: Finding Rizal in Germany - mindanews.com
WEBSeptember 25, 2020. BERN, Switzerland (MindaNews / 25 September) – Little do Filipino visitors to Germany know that there is a Rizal Park and even a Jose Rizal Street in Germany, built by Filipinos and Germans alike to honor Rizal’s stay and friendships made in Germany and in appreciation of his German scholarship.
SPECIAL REPORT: The ruling clans of Mindanao: same families in …
WEBDAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – The Dimaporos of Lanao del Norte and the Plazas of Agusan del Sur are the longest-surviving political clans in Mindanao, having ruled their areas for at least half a century, interrupted only briefly when the People Power revolt ousted the Marcos dictatorship in 1986, replaced local chief executives with OICs (officers–in-charge) and elected a new set of ...
Sleepless in ‘tulugan’: ‘Kaliga’ ritual of Bukidnon tribe
WEBApr 26, 2021 — Datu Lagidliran Federico Docenos leads the baptism during the closing of the kaliga ritual of the Bukidnon-Daraghuyan tribe on April 25, 2021 in Olanguhon, Dalwangan, Malaybalay City. MindaNews photo by H. MARCOS C. MORDENO. So this is why he told the men in half-jest during the panampulot to go …