Posts Tagged ‘city’
Soldier shot dead by suspected rebels in CamSur coastal town
NAGA CITYSuspected communist rebels attacked a mobile military detachment in a coastal town in Camarines Sur Saturday afternoon and killed one soldier, an Army…
Curfew imposed in violence-prone Davao Sur
DIGOS CITY, Davao del Sur, Philippines — The Commission on Elections ordered the police to implement curfew in the…
House polls in gold town a 3-way race
TAGUM CITY, PhilippinesIn a land of gold and active communist insurgency, a controversial former police official, a lawyer and a woman legislator from a powerful political family are vying for the seat of one of Compostela Valley’s two congressional districts. Involved in the three-cornered match-up are former Senior Supt
Easing out Escudero a mistake for LP — Binay
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay has said the sudden absence of Sen.
Two years after, Sumilao farmers still waiting for land titles under CARP
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines — Farmers from Sumilao, Bukidnon, are still waiting for the titles to the 144 hectares of land supposedly awarded to them under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, two years ago, after an arduous legal and political battle that included a march from Mindanao to Manila.
Filipino Political Scion, Set to Assume the Mantle
QUEZON CITY, the Philippines THE couple’s only son, he had never shown his father’s raw political ambition or his sense of a predestined place in this country’s history.
DENR opens Davao trail to Mt. Apo climbers
KIDAPAWAN CITY, PhilippinesMount Apo climbers found relief in the latest order of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to open the Davao trail to mountain climbers…
More people seen leaving Mindanao due to drought, brownouts
BAGUIO CITYDrought equals brownouts equals bad economy equals migration. Government officials said the pummeling that Mindanao was suffering from drought and its effects on the island’s economy was likely to trigger a new wave of migrants headed for Luzon and add pressure to its local economies.
MILF denies backing fatwa vs Estrada, Drilon, Roxas
DAVAO CITY, PhilippinesThe Moro Islamic Liberation front (MILF) denied supporting a fatwa or edict issued by an Islamic cleric in Lanao Del Sur against at least three national candidates.
Army builds P4.5-M road in Davao Sur
DAVAO CITY The Philippine Army on Friday turned over to civilian authorities a P4.5 million farm-to-market road it constructed in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur. The rehabilitation and concreting of the four-kilometer road…
P82M worth of ARMM crops, livestock lost to droughtexecs
COTABATO CITY, Philippines The dry spell brought about by the El Niño phenomenon destroyed crops and livestock worth nearly P82 million in at least three provinces in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, an official said Wednesday. Salik Panalunsong, regional field operations chief of the Department of Agriculture, said hardest hit by the drought was Maguindanao, accounting for more than P74 million worth of grains, high-value commercial crops and livestock…
‘Lumad’ oppose new dam for power
KIDAPAWAN CITY The shortage in electricity that is hounding Mindanao has failed to convince residents of at least three Mindanao provinces to support the planned construction of power plants in their areas.
In New York and Taguig
HE SAYS 03/10/2010 New Musical Express magazine described it as a lusty bellowing of a statement of facts about New York, the city that has become the subject of many songs, which after Sinatras New York, New York, has again hogged the limelight courtesy of Alicia Keys, whose soulful chorus in the two different versions of the Empire State of Mind one with rapper Jay-Z and another of her own would become my LSS, or the last song syndrome to replace Manny Villars political jingle. Ms. Keys, who was born and grew up in Harlem, described her place as such a melting pot, on the corner selling rock, preachers pray to God
Candidates frustrate audience at Ateneo forum
DAVAO CITY, PhilippinesAll presidential candidates except the three who have consistently topped the surveys were at the presidential forum at the Ateneo de Davao University here on Tuesday, and they disappointed sectoral representatives on their stance on such Mindanao issues as the peace process, mining, agriculture. Present during the forum were Senators Richard Gordon and Jamby Madrigal, former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro, JC Delos Reyes, Eddie Villanueva and Nicanor Perlas. Liezl Bugtay, media officer of the non-governmental group Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao (AFRIM), said the forum exposed one thing: ‘most presidentiables delivered general statements on their take on…
