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Even before the Spaniards came, ethnic tribes had their own anitos ... Personalities who put us on the global map: Lea Salonga, Paeng Nepomuceno, Manny Pacquiao. Eugene Torre, Luisito Espinosa, Lydia ...
A rifle company of 150 to 200 Marines from Camp Pendleton is on the island of Mindanao training with Philippine troops ahead ...
The City Council of Basilan City in Basilan has declared political analyst Richard Heydarian persona non grata for his controversial remark comparing Mindanao’s Human Development Index (HDI) to ...
The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor holds many documents from the early 20th century when the United States colonized the ...
Mindanao was recently thrown into chaos when, on March 11, former president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested by Interpol agents. The arrest wasn’t a complete surprise, but since President Marcos ...
THE intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), which brings cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms, has reemerged ...
MUCH has been said and written about the state of development of Mindanao recently. I will not get into the "Sub-Saharan" debate, but I checked out recent figures that say something about poverty in ...
COTABATO CITY — Traders in Central Mindanao were elated by the formal launching on Tuesday, April 1, of the multi-billion KCC Mall in Cotabato City, seeing it as a "magnet" for potential ...
He also argued that it would make "a custodial sentence less likely for those from an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority community" - something the council denied.
But one disinformation narrative threatened to distort the peace situation in Mindanao, risking damage to public perception of the ongoing peace process. There was a concern that bad actors could ...