mindanaw | Mindanao Writers' Blogs - Part 4
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See you in Gensan for MBS2!

Hi, I’m heading to General Santos City on October 25 to 26, 2008 for the Second Mindanao Bloggers Summit! It will be at the Family Country Hotel and Convention Center at the Tuna Capital of the Philippines, General Santos City on October 25-26, 2008. I was asked to give a brief sharing on Voices from ...

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EMB to consider Bukidnon’s moratorium on ECC issuance

The Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has agreed to consider Bukidnon’s request for consideration in the approval of environmental compliance certificate (ECC)  for projects based in the province. Read full report here.       

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Habalhabal in the highway

A man serves as a balancing load to a sack of grains loaded in a pay for hire motorcycle (habal-habal) traveling along the highway in Casisang, Malaybalay City.       

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Matigsalugs revive plan to create own town

A plan in the 1990s to create another municipality for the Matigsalug tribe to be carved out of Kitaotao town is being revived, an official said. Board member Roelito Gawilan, president of the Bukidnon Federation of the Association of Barangay Captains, confirmed they have started “at the grassroots level” in ...

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Is it fair for Ompong?

The Iligan City Council passed a resolution this month declaring Prof. Rudy Rodil as “persona non grata” for his role in the drafting of the botched Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. According to the resolution, he has been declared “persona non grata” for ...

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Mindanao becoming dumpsite of RP’s “bad cops”

It was a routine surf for news from places where I used to live. The order is always from the latest city, then backwards. So it was from Davao, then Quezon City-Antipolo, Iloilo, and then Cagayan de Oro. But I was stuck in cyber Iloilo, particularly at Sun Star Iloilo’s website. The headline reads ...

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Corruption inside bus No. 2075

Inside the crowded air-conditioned bus from Davao, the faces of the passengers looked weary and their eyes looked tired. At least 15 new passengers embarked from the busy, old Valencia City terminal.  For a moment the vehicle looked like a wet public market, and then sounded like one. The passengers settled in the ...