mindanaw | Mindanao Writers' Blogs - Part 4
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On Chip Tsao’s “The War at Home”

This writer's satire fails by stirring a people's sensibilities while exposing the condition of domestic help treatment in his own country.

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“WHY WE OPPOSE THE PROPOSED ‘RIGHT OF REPLY’ LAW”

(Letter shared by Jose Torres, Jr. with media practitioners at the “Peace Consultation & Dialogue: Mindanao Media Forum on Peace, Conflict and Security”, hosted by Civil Society Organization Forum for Peace in Iligan City, 7-8th March 2009) The proposed right of reply measure is by its very nature unconstitutional and only reflects ...

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Peace talks is everybody’s concern

Two weeks after a peace forum we have held at Bukidnon State University, the group that organized it is now reported to be under surveillance as tagged by the military to be an “MILF recruitment committee”. This has been the most stupid and the narrowest split of sense I have heard of for ...

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Mindanao 2009 Calendar, now out for sale

Now on sale at P200 per copy (postage not included). Email your orders now at calendar at mindanews.com; call (082) 2974360; text 09285517750. The Mindanao 2009 special edition calendar, from the thelandofpromise.com photographs of Bobby Timonera, one of the editors at MindaNews, is a project of the Mindanao News and Information Cooperative Center ...

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What is good and bad about celebrating Bukidnon’s Kaamulan Festival every year?

Please key in your response here.

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Favorite part on President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech

I glued myself to early morning television to see the inauguration. Here’s my most favorite part, what’s yours? “Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty ...

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Law banning aerial spray in RP?

While a court battle upwards is still being fought on this struggle for the environment, this senator from Mindanao has mulled passing a bill banning aerial spraying in the country. Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri, who styled himself as an environment advocate while in the House of Representatives, said he backs Davao City’s ban ...