Northern Mindanao, Philippines News

At least 300,000 more poor Filipino families will each be receiving as much as P1,400 monthly starting this year from the country's conditional cash transfer project called the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program to meet their health, nutrition, and education needs.

Cagayan de Oro would be getting nearly a billion pesos worth of infrastructure projects following Congress ratification of the proposed P1.54-trillion national budget for 2010 on Friday, December 18.

DAVAO CITY President Arroyo will likely certify as urgent a proposal of the Commission on Elections to hold elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao a month ahead of May 10, 2010, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said.

Two American nationals wanted by the US federal authorities have been arrested in the Philippines, the Bureau of Immigration announced Saturday.

SLERS Ham & Cafe has joined Coffeeworks in SM North EDSAs Sky Garden in what could mark a Kagay-anon invasion of the elevated curvilinear park which boasts of a 400-meter canopied walkway that serves as a buffer from the busy EDSA intersection and as a shaded common access point for the whole mall linking the main mall building, the Block, the new ...

Construction of the Mindanao Railways is scheduled to start in 2011 with the initial spur of the first phase between Cagayan de Oro City and the new airport in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental.

Personal health care and medical tourism has just taken a giant leap forward with the recent introduction in Cagayan de Oro of the first machine capable of removing kidney stones without surgery and hospitalization.

The Regional Development Council for Region X has requested the Office of the President to change the method of undertaking for the Mindanao Railway System of the Department of Transportation and Communication from Build-Operate-Transfer to Official Development Assistance .

DAVAO CITY Two of eight vice presidential hopefuls who got the nod of the Commission on Elections as candidates for May 2010 and at least 10 of 58 senatorial bets are from Mindanao There is no Mindanawon among the eight Presidential candidates although Nicanor Perlas, who is still contesting his disqualification, finished his Agriculture degree at ...

GENERAL SANTOS CITY At least 13 business groups in Mindanao have agreed to jointly promote the development of additional energy resources in a bid to help stabilize the island's power supply in the wake of a foreseen crisis within the next three to five years.

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said Thursday that the Commission on Elections , faced with problems of delayed deliveries of automated machines, must ensure clean, honest, and credible elections in 2010 whether it is done manually or through computerized voting, saying chaos could result if the elections do not push through as scheduled.

Despite the many challenges and difficulties the country faced in 2009, eight out of 10 Filipinos are still looking forward to 2010 with optimism, results of an independent survey showed.

NINE communist rebels and one soldier were killed after the military raided a guerrilla camp in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, the army said, adding fighting was ongoing.

Philtrust Bank, also known as Philippine Trust Company, will inaugurate and bless Thursday, December 10, 2009, its Philtrust Bank Cagayan de Oro City Branch located at B. Aquino corner J. Ramonal Streets, Cogon District, Cagayan de Oro City.

The massacre of at least 57 persons in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao province last November 23, is said to be the worst election-related violence in recent Philippine history.

The local manufacturer of beverage giant Pepsi Co. is spending P350 million to expand its production plant in northern Mindanao.

The Huluga archaeological site in Cagayan de Oro became front page item again in October 2009 after the discovery of a prehistoric gravesite.

The Court of Appeals on Friday morning approved the writ of amparo petition filed by a lawyer of the Ampatuan clan in Cagayan de Oro City.

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.

CAGAYAN de Oro Vice Mayor Vicente Emano and his PaDayon Pilipino slate filed their certificate of candidacies late in the evening Tuesday, just minutes before the 12 midnight deadline.