Southern Mindanao, Philippines News

" Suspected New People's Army rebels killed a farmer before his horrified family in the southern Philippines , the military said on Friday.

Every year, December 10 is the United Nations' designated Human Rights Day. After World War II, the Philippines earned considerable fame for being a principal proponent of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was proclaimed by the UN on December 10, 1948.

Amid the emerging realities and challenges facing the country's human resource, a five-year roadmap for Mindanao 's technical and vocational sector was recently launched here to serve as a blueprint and guide to enhancing competitiveness, viability and sustainability of the island's tech-voc industry.

Dayang Payton burst into tears when she heard on the radio how the most powerful man in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao was forcibly taken by soldiers from a hospital.

The Supreme Court is standing pat on its decision that Picop Resources, Inc. did not comply with administrative measures needed to claim a forest management permit covering 75,545 hectares in Mindanao.

A convicted child molester from New Zealand will be kicked out of the country by the Bureau of Immigration for being an undesirable alien.

The Philippine military is confident of quashing a rogue politician's militia in the troubled south, but worried the offensive is creating power vacuums from which more fearsome forces could emerge.

Gunmen loyal to a powerful clan accused in the Philippines' worst political massacre clashed with police in the first reported violence since a southern province came under martial law, officials said Monday.

Soldiers using sniffer dogs and shovels dug up rifles, machineguns and hundreds of crates of ammunition at a farm owned by a powerful political clan linked to a massacre of 57 people in the southern Philippines, officials said on Sunday.

Photos sent to the Mindanao Examiner show the bodies of some journalists who were among 57 brutally killed November 23, 2009 in Maguindanao province.

This subject was the focus of the two-day Mindanao Logistics Conference held last week by the Mindanao Federation of Shippers' Association at the Phividec industrial complex in Misamis Oriental.

A flagship project of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte " Peoples Park " will be celebrating its 2nd Year Anniversary on December 16, 2009.

" Eleven days after the "Maguindanao Massacre," some 100 Filipino lawyers, law students and other members of civil society organizations joined the walk against impunity in Davao City in Mindanao.

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The Pearl Farm Beach Resort in Samal Island, Davao is nestled in a secluded cove that was formerly home to the Aguinaldo Pearl Farm.

Filipinos who are shocked by the barbarity of the Maguindanao massacre that killed 27 journalists and 30 others might not realise that they helped pay for it.

Mark Gilbert "Mac-Mac" Arriola, UNTV, General Santos City 11. Bal Cachuela, Punto News, Koronadal City 12.

Davao City that serve up quite delectable and authentic Italian dishes for an Italian food tripper like me to enjoy.

"We would like to sell the idea of an integrated logistics highway or corridor; one that would connect Northern and Southern Mindanao, two big economic centers in the region, that will propel Mindanao's socio-economic development," said Mr.

The Dubai Duty Free Foundation has announced a donation of $1.5 million to Smile Train, a charity dedicated to repairing cleft lip and cleft palate deformities in children.