mindanaw | Mindanao Writers' Blogs - Part 4
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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 ...

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Valencia City’s ex-mayor Galario: from radio adversary to broadcaster

He used to be a staunch critic of the broadcast media, even padlocking radio stations in Valencia City during his two-term stint at city hall. But guess who is now a broadcaster himself — operating, programming, and going on-air in his own radio station.

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Happy New Year Mindanao!

We welcome the new year with hope for peace and progress for all in Mindanao. It is good to anticipate more good news in 2009 for the “Land of Promise”. Here is one:  MindaNews is selling unique 2009 Mindanao calendars featuring photos by Bobby Timonera. For a glimpse! (Photo grabbed from www.mindanews.com)        ...